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Plus: Jobs for mates, and the eSafety commissioner responds to the Americans

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Exclusive: Consultant says National Party's Net Zero modelling was a "client-influenced" best-case coal scenario

Energy consulting firm Arche Energy has clarified what role the Nationals' think tank had in achieving its claim that coal is cheaper than renewables.

⚫️ Some magical land

Plus: Littleproud gets fact checked

Analysis

⚫️ Barnaby Joyce leaving the Nationals probably isn’t the win he says it is

Plus: Arche Energy responds, Barnaby's poor polling and a disgraced mayor

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Watch: The consultants who did the Nationals coal modelling have tried to explain themselves

Arche Energy have released a new statement revealing how they came to figures revealing coal is cheaper than renewables. But their modelling ignores how Australia's power grid operates.

⚫️ Telling porkies?

Plus: The Nats $9 trillion claim and Labor's refusal to do anything about gambling ads

Analysis

David Littleproud keeps saying the shift to renewable energy is going to cost $9 trillion. This is not accurate.

The $9 trillion net zero figure is being misused by politicians.

Politics

Watch: The government admits gambling fuels DV, but still ignores calls for an ad ban

Tanya Plibersek acknowledges gambling’s role in domestic violence, yet Labor hasn’t explained why it’s ignoring its own call to ban gambling ads.

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Bad news for nervous Twitch fans as platform added to under-16 banned list

The restrictions come into play on December 10.

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