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Supplier rallies small businesses as critics say overhaul would harm development of clean energy Octopus Energy has rallied thousands of its small business customers to back an overhaul of Great Britain’s electricity market.The largest energy supplier in Britain and more than 3,700 of its customers wrote to the Treasury last week calling for an immediate introduction of postcode electricity pricing. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/14/octopus-and-its-customers-ask-treasury-to-back-zonal-electricity-pricing Author : Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent Publish date : 2025-04-14 05:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Paramedics treated child for serious neck injuries but he died at the scene, police sayGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA teenage boy and a man have been charged after a nine-year-old was killed when he was accidentally shot in the neck on a rural property.Emergency services were called to a property in Windellama, south of Goulburn in NSW, about 11.20am on Sunday by reports of a shooting, police said.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/nine-year-old-boy-dies-after-accidental-shooting-near-goulburn-in-rural-nsw Author : Lisa Cox and Australian Associated Press Publish date :

Under Pete Marocco’s lead, nearly all USAID staff was fired, with funding slashed and contractors dismissedPete Marocco, the Trump administration official who played a major role in dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has left the state department, a US official said on Sunday.Donald Trump’s administration has moved to fire nearly all USAID staff, as billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” has slashed funding and dismissed contractors across the federal bureaucracy in what it calls an attack on wasteful spending. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/13/trump-pete-marocco-leaves-state-department Author : Reuters Publish date : 2025-04-13 23:42:00 Copyright for

Greens would use balance of power to push to make university and Tafe free. Follow today’s news headlines liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastOn housing, experts have raised some concerns on the impact both major parties’ policies will have to demand in the market, while not adequately addressing supply.Labor has said their policy, to open up their 5% deposits for all first