3 October

The WA power system is under pressure because the foreign-owned coal mine that provides coal to its power station is about to go belly up. It’s another fossil fuel stranded asset, that nobody wants because the industry is dead. East coast coal survives for now because of the war in Ukraine, but it’s a temporary stay of execution. We have 10 years to modernise our power grid, something we should have been doing for the past 20 but which the previous government refused. It’s going to be brutal.