Since Russia's war against Ukraine, energy prices have skyrocketed worldwide like in Australia with the government taking countermeasures and thus coming under oppositional fire.
Australia has a new government since the end of May this year. Labour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had already promised during the election campaign that his country, which still generates 80 percent of its electricity from coal, would in the future focus on expanding renewable energies and advancing the energy transition. This is one of the reasons why he was elected to office, as Australians have felt the effects of global climate change first hand in recent years through devastating forest fires and floods.
In December 2021, as part of his election campaign ...