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Smart meters should be taken up before other major upgrades to the electricity market as Australia strives for...

Consumers can make informed choices which in turn open the way to greater retail options that suit their family or business usage patterns." The commission's chair Anna Collyer said a 100 per cent uptake in the smart meters by the end of the decade would allow customers to be better informed about energy use in the lead up to net zero. In a new draft report, the commission said a 100 per cent uptake of smart meters would deliver a more than $500 million benefit to all regions in the national energy market.

Australian educators face a higher risk of being attacked at work or suffering mental health conditions than any...

Measures include a $25m boost to address workloads and a further $10m to raise the status of the profession. The findings were based on claims data, prompting researchers from Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine to suggest actual rates of violence towards teachers could be even higher. Secondary school teachers, specialist educators and aides experienced the highest rate of assault-related injuries and mental health conditions.

Hobart City Council in July voted against the proposal of the Mount Wellington Cableway Company (MWCC), prompting the company to appeal the decision.

"The tribunal's determination and its implications for the future of the project also need to be considered by our board and key shareholders." "We need to get advice from our legal and planning advisers on the technical detail of the tribunal's determination," he said in a statement. "Removal of native vegetation for fire prevention and construction of the access road to the base station would cause the loss of breeding habitat for the swift parrot and the masked owl, and foraging habitat for the parrot, which would result in adverse effects for those threatened species."

More than two million Australians have hopped on an electric bus over the past three years, in the...

That's equivalent to saving the energy of nearly 6000 cars." Six out of eight states and territories have set targets for a transition to zero-emission buses, with southeast Queensland and Perth expected to make the switch by 2025, and Tasmania and the rest of Queensland and Western Australia to join them by 2030. Despite initial concerns about their range, Mr Peters said electric buses regularly returned to the depot with a "40 to 50 per cent" charge left in their batteries, and could be recharged in less than three hours.

For Jo Dodds, there is a life before the 2018 bushfires and a life after. Ms Dodds watched...

"It was a big decision to come but my group felt it was important to maintain pressure to meet or beat our targets - particularly beat the targets." "It gives a moral edge and obligation on everybody who is making the decisions to acknowledge how much hurt and pain and loss and trauma is already occurring." Now the president of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, Ms Dodds is speaking at the COP27 conference in Egypt on a panel with First Nations representatives to illustrate the human toll of climate change.