If everybody could take their seats, thank you.
Thank you so much for coming along.
Now have become one of the most important seats in the whole country.
Net zero would have to be the worst policy that I have ever seen.
We all have no illusion that coal is going to win this war.
At the Singleton Bowls Club in the heart of New South Wales coal country, the battle for votes is in full swing.
For many here in the marginal seat of Hunter, the stakes could not be higher.
They want to know, will they have jobs if coal-fired power comes to an end.
We have the best coal in the world here in the Hunter, and we need to make sure what people want to buy when we supply it.
Labor's Dan Repacholi is fighting to hold the seat after it's pro-coal MP, Joel Fitzgibbon, retired.
His rival, Nationals' candidate James Thomson, is running hard, arguing Labor's climate policy threatens coal jobs.
The Labor Party have abandoned our region.
There are fourteen-thousand families that rely on mining in the Hunter region and the businesses that it supports as well.
So I back that industry.
The wildcard is One Nation.
The targets that have been put in place by the major parties is going to be a very dark time for the Hunter.
One Nation won over twenty percent of the vote here last election.
Now it's attacking the major parties over their net zero emissions target to combat climate change.
Net Zero emissions means net zero jobs.
People in our power sector and our power stations - our coal-fire power stations - they are very concerned about their jobs.
One Nation is preferencing the nationals ahead of Labor, ramping up pressure on the ALP candidate.
Do you think the message - the fear message on jobs - is cutting through?
What are you hearing?
This government is definitely doing a fear campaign against the La- against Labor, against us in the seat.
A deluge of negative ads attacking Labor is flooding the Hunter, warning of job losses and coal mines and coal-fired power plants.
But there's also a growing sense here that unstoppable change is coming.
Coal has dominated in the Hunter for decades, but this election climate change and clean energy cannot be ignored here.
Nearly all the giant Hunter coal plants are likely to shut down within eight years.
Jobs are in jeopardy and new ones are needed to replace them.
The coal-fired generators are not making any money and some are in more financial difficulties than others.
And it's actually gotten worse as the price of coal has gone up because they are now losing even more money.
Um, and, that's really the inexorable truth of it.
Against the backdrop of this election, a high stakes corporate battle is underway that could see Australia largely exit coal fire power faster than most politicians will admit.
Those plants are already unreliable, they are already very expensive, and they are not going to be open in 2045.
Everybody is going to close these plants.
Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is leading a shareholder revolt inside energy giant AGL.
Hope we can, uh, we can make this work.
He wants to stop a demerger plan by AGL's board to preserve its aging coal plants in a split company.
If Cannon-Brookes wins this fight, the Bayswater power plant in the Hunter and Loy Yang A in Victoria are on borrowed time.
AGL is currently the single largest contributor to carbon emissions in Australia.
I'm Mike Cannon-Brookes and today I represent the largest shareholder in AGL but I need your help.
If everybody could take their seats, thank you.
Thank you so much for coming along.
Now have become one of the most important seats in the whole country.
Net zero would have to be the worst policy that I have ever seen.
We all have no illusion that coal is going to win this war.
At the Singleton Bowls Club in the heart of New South Wales coal country, the battle for votes is in full swing.
For many here in the marginal seat of Hunter, the stakes could not be higher.
They want to know, will they have jobs if coal-fired power comes to an end.
We have the best coal in the world here in the Hunter, and we need to make sure what people want to buy when we supply it.
Labor's Dan Repacholi is fighting to hold the seat after it's pro-coal MP, Joel Fitzgibbon, retired.
His rival, Nationals' candidate James Thomson, is running hard, arguing Labor's climate policy threatens coal jobs.
The Labor Party have abandoned our region.
There are fourteen-thousand families that rely on mining in the Hunter region and the businesses that it supports as well.
So I back that industry.
The wildcard is One Nation.
The targets that have been put in place by the major parties is going to be a very dark time for the Hunter.
One Nation won over twenty percent of the vote here last election.
Now it's attacking the major parties over their net zero emissions target to combat climate change.
Net Zero emissions means net zero jobs.
People in our power sector and our power stations - our coal-fire power stations - they are very concerned about their jobs.
One Nation is preferencing the nationals ahead of Labor, ramping up pressure on the ALP candidate.
Do you think the message - the fear message on jobs - is cutting through?
What are you hearing?
This government is definitely doing a fear campaign against the La- against Labor, against us in the seat.
A deluge of negative ads attacking Labor is flooding the Hunter, warning of job losses and coal mines and coal-fired power plants.
But there's also a growing sense here that unstoppable change is coming.
Coal has dominated in the Hunter for decades, but this election climate change and clean energy cannot be ignored here.
Nearly all the giant Hunter coal plants are likely to shut down within eight years.
Jobs are in jeopardy and new ones are needed to replace them.
The coal-fired generators are not making any money and some are in more financial difficulties than others.
And it's actually gotten worse as the price of coal has gone up because they are now losing even more money.
Um, and, that's really the inexorable truth of it.
Against the backdrop of this election, a high stakes corporate battle is underway that could see Australia largely exit coal fire power faster than most politicians will admit.
Those plants are already unreliable, they are already very expensive, and they are not going to be open in 2045.
Everybody is going to close these plants.
Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is leading a shareholder revolt inside energy giant AGL.
Hope we can, uh, we can make this work.
He wants to stop a demerger plan by AGL's board to preserve its aging coal plants in a split company.
If Cannon-Brookes wins this fight, the Bayswater power plant in the Hunter and Loy Yang A in Victoria are on borrowed time.
AGL is currently the single largest contributor to carbon emissions in Australia.
I'm Mike Cannon-Brookes and today I represent the largest shareholder in AGL but I need your help.
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