Prominent journalists whinged chauvinistically about "far-flung authors", deaf to the explosion of energy from Commonwealth novelists, which has been the most significant feature of the Booker's 40 years.
Over three years, a $12 million Commonwealth funded consortium project implemented energy efficiency initiatives in six remote Indigenous communities.
A $12 million Commonwealth funded consortium project trialled energy efficiency initiatives in six remote Indigenous communities over three years.
If the commonwealth prices carbon, the preference of energy companies such as Adani, that would drive Queensland to 41%, leaving the state to deliver an extra 1900 megawatts to hit its 50% target.
Never mind that the states are also regulators, of, say, horridly ambitious and deeply subversive renewable energy targets, and the commonwealth feels perfectly at ease to have strong views about those anytime there's an open microphone.
Abbott replied: "If you take for instance the irrigation scheme that they're very committed to, not only do you have the asset recycling fund, you've got the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, you've got various renewable energy funds that the commonwealth already has and these are all potentially available to help projects like this to go ahead".
The states point to the commonwealth's lack of leadership on renewable energy in recent years and South Australia has flagged that it will raise an emissions intensity trading system for the electricity market during Friday's discussions – a proposal Canberra has batted off until a review of the Direct Action policy in 2017.
Even if he doesn't, they said, they plan to remain in his office until Monday, when at least 1,000 people are expected to show up on the capitol steps for "I Love Mountains Day", a rally organized annually by Kentuckians For The Commonwealth to call for clean water and energy.
The fund, he said, "can become a major economic springboard for the commonwealth by focusing on job creation in the renewable energy sector".
The energy and resources minister, Josh Frydenberg, said the report showed "that unless the commonwealth and state governments work together to address supply-side constraints, consumers and industry will bear the cost of higher gas prices and less reliable supply".
