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Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has welcomed an agreement to exempt his state from having to use renewable energy to power new data centres.
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DFAT aware of Australians in area of Tibet-Nepal flood event
By Joshua Boscaini
By Joshua Boscaini
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has confirmed its aware a number of Australians are in the are in the area of a deadly flash flood hit the Tibet-Nepal border.
More than 150 people have died, and hundreds of tourists and hikers are missing a torrent of water swept through the Himalayan border region on Wednesday morning, local time.
In a statement, DFAT says it is ready to provide consular assistance to affected people.
"Australians in the affected area should follow the advice of local authorities," the statement said.
"We are aware of a number of Australians in the area and Australian officials are urgently working to confirm their welfare. We are liaising with local authorities as well as tour operators."
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Queensland premier hails carve-out for his state to use coal, gas for new data centres
By Joshua Boscaini
By Joshua Boscaini
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is doing the morning television rounds, and he's making no secret he's super happy with yesterday's national cabinet meeting.
His state was effectively given an exemption to use coal and gas energy to power new data centres.
That's despite Energy Minister Chris Bowen saying ahead of the meeting that the Commonwealth would legislate over the top of states who refused to adopt a renewable energy standard.
Speaking to Channel Nine, Crisafulli says yesterday's meeting was "constructive", and the prime minister acknowledged the Queensland government's argument for using gas and coal power.
"We've got the youngest fleet of coal-fired power stations, we have an abundance of gas, we have an area where we're putting renewables and a plan to deliver them. That's not ideology, that's practicality," Crisafulli says.
"We think we can bring that to the mix with data centres and it is a competitive point of advantage and that is a distinct point of difference in Queensland and to the great credit of the prime minister he acknowledged it."
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By Joshua Boscaini
By Joshua Boscaini
Hello and welcome to our federal politics live blog. It's great to have you join us here on this Thursday morning!
I'm Josh Boscaini, joining you live from Parliament House in Canberra, ready to bring you all of today's federal politics news.
National cabinet met yesterday, and in case you've missed it, Queensland was given an exemption to use coal and gas to power data centres.
Chris Bowen insisted ahead of the meeting the Commonwealth would legislate over the top of states that refused to adopt a renewables standard.
Let's get right into it and bring some reaction from yesterday's meeting and more right here on our blog!
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