Job boon for regions from phasing out coal

New economic modelling has tallied the likely jobs from replacing Australia’s ageing fleet of coal-fired power plants with wind, solar and batteries, new coal or gas-fired generation. Powering Australian growth for decades, communities in Gladstone in Queensland, the Hunter Valley in NSW and Victoria’s Latrobe valley face a tough transition in a global economy intent on cutting […]

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