Good afternoon. The gas disaster is once more dominating headlines, as Anthony Albanese appointed a brand new nationwide gas provide taskforce coordinator – and urged motorists to not purchase greater than they wanted.
The competitors watchdog is in the meantime investigating major suppliers together with Ampol, BP, Mobil and Viva Energy for alleged anti-competitive conduct amid rising shortages sparked by the Iran struggle.
Petra Stock has checked out which fuel and energy solutions Australia might implement rapidly to be much less depending on overseas oil.
And you probably have cancelled a vacation, are working from house extra or taking fewer journeys due to the petrol pinch, the Guardian would like to hear from you.
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The prince, the sultan and the politicians: our visual analysis of more than a million emails reveals Jeffrey Epstein’s deep and longstanding ties with rich and highly effective elites.
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“Being an archaeologist can be a very frustrating profession.” – archaeo-anthropologist Annamaria Latron
French schoolchildren this week discovered an ancient skeleton peeking out of a round pit: the most recent in a series of bodies discovered in Dijon buried in a seated place going through west. Scientists know town was as soon as particular to the Gauls – however as but, don’t know why they opted for this upright interment.
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The Reform UK chief has a profitable further gig sending paid-for Cameo messages. But an evaluation of greater than 4,000 reveals they embrace movies for a neo-Nazi group and a rioter – Henry Dyer reports.
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South Australian Liberals are hoping that preferencing One Nation will give them a preventing probability – however is the model harm price it? Ahead of Saturday’s election, political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy displays that John Howard’s principled stand against Pauline Hanson appears a distant memory for the present-day get together, who’ve prioritised political expediency.
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