US EditionAustralia is set to be a renewables nation. After Labor’s win, there’s no turning back
- The Labor government won a landslide election on May 3, 2025, securing a strong mandate to accelerate renewable energy across Australia.
- This result follows a 2022 vote where Australians endorsed climate action, and after three years of progress, they signaled in 2025 to continue this trajectory.
- The Albanese government targets more than 80% renewable energy on the main grid by 2030, emphasizing wind, solar, and storage while rapidly phasing out coal, gas, and leaving nuclear energy with no role.
- Australia leads globally in solar uptake with one in three homes equipped with solar panels and installs about 300,000 new systems annually, supported by a home battery discount scheme aiming for over one million batteries by 2030.
- The election outcome implies Australia will cement a national climate consensus, strengthen international climate cooperation through hosting COP31 talks, and transition to a clean energy exporter, reshaping its global economic future.
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15 Articles
Australia is the Renewables Nation after Labor's Win
By Wesley Morgan, UNSW Sydney and Ben Newell, UNSW Sydney An emphatic election victory for the incumbent Labor government means Australia’s rapid shift to renewable energy will continue. As Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said on Saturday: In 2022, the Australian people voted to finally act on climate change. After three years of progress […] in 2025 they said keep going. The election result also means the debate about energy pol…
Australian Labor’s Landslide Is a Win for the Status Quo
Labor PM Anthony Albanese promised more of the same, with maybe a little bit of tinkering if the budget allows. And thanks to opposition leader Peter Dutton’s abysmal Trump imitation, it won Labor a landslide victory in Saturday's Australian election.
We have to work with the government
The Australian people have spoken and they have resoundingly endorsed Labor to govern for another three years. Labor’s decisive majority is good news for stability and certainty. The fact it is not a hung Parliament will provide some relief to the Jewish community who worried that the Greens may hold the balance of power. At the time of writing, the Greens have held steady in the Senate but face a wipeout in the House. They have lost at least tw…
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