The Latest Breaking News from Woodside

Without funding from Japan, many of Australia’s gas projects wouldn’t have gone ahead. Massive public loans from Japanese taxpayers are propping up Australia’s now-enormous fossil gas industry. Japan is also becoming a major gas trader and today exports more gas to other countries than it imports from Australia.

Senegal joined the club of oil-producing countries on Tuesday as Australian group Woodside Energy announced that production had started in the west African country's first offshore project.

Two teenagers have accused the WA premier of defaming them, a 15-year-old charged with planning a terrorist act allegedly wanted to ‘attack Jews’, and the salaries of university heads have bloated even as the institutions post deficits.

Climate activists who protested inside Woodside's annual general meeting claim the WA premier defamed them to the media and have demanded an apology.

Emma Heyink and Tom Power say the premier made false comments about protest at company’s annual general meeting

So long as oil and gas companies remain wedded to self-interest, the push against them isn’t going away

This week in Media Briefs: Seven settles a defamation case, and a cavoodle returns to court.

Woodside Energy shareholders have re-elected chairman Richard Goyder but rejected the company's climate plan in a raucous four-hour meeting.

AustralianSuper says it has ‘ongoing concerns’ about how the country’s biggest oil and gas company will reach net zero emissions by 2050