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Federal independent MP Helen Haines will introduce legislation to the federal parliament on Monday in a bid to establish a new, dedicated community power agency to support investment in new community owned renewable energy projects.
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Australian Local Power Agency Bill, to be tabled by Haines, would establish a new Australian Local Power Agency, a federal authority that would sit alongside other clean energy funding bodies like the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
Haines told RenewEconomy that the legislation would target three core barriers to greater local and community ownership of renewable energy projects: supporting community organisations to conquer the technical challenges of creating a community owned project, providing financial support for the construction of medium-scale projects with community ownership models, and a requirement for large-scale projects to offer local communities the opportunities to tak
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Explosive text messages have cast serious doubt over when the prime minister s office first knew about the alleged rape of a Liberal staffer.
Brittany Higgins says she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague inside Parliament House in 2019.
Scott Morrison claims his office did not find out about the alleged rape until last week and he was not informed until Monday.
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But records show a text message exchange between Ms Higgins and a fellow Liberal staffer within a fortnight of the incident.
In the message, the Liberal staffer said he had spoken directly with a member of Mr Morrison s staff.
Monstrous act exposes the cold inhumanity at the heart of the Morrison government
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A young woman has come forward to say that she was raped in the inner sanctum of Australian political power, the ministerial offices of Parliament House.
No one is denying it. Not her colleagues, not her employer of the time, not the prime minister in the government she served. On the contrary, her employer of that time, today’s Defence Minister, Linda Reynolds, shed tears of remorse in the Senate this week. The Prime Minister offered his apologies.
Country: Interviewing for the latest Morgan Poll was conducted over the weekends of February 6/7 & 13/14, 2021 with a nationally representative cross-section of 2,786 Australian electors using a combination of telephone and online interviews (multi-mode).
In February, support for the ALP is 50.5% on a two-party preferred basis, up 1% point since November 2020 and now ahead of the L-NP on 49.5% (down 1% point) according to the latest Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention.
If a Federal Election were held now it would be too close to call with a higher than usual 6.5% of electors undecided about who they would vote for and with the real possibility Australia would have a hung Parliament for the first time in nearly a decade. Normally around 3-4% of electors can’t say who they would vote for.