Nationals meet after three frontbenchers resign – as it happened

This blog is now closed Coalition under threat as three Nationals senators resign from frontbench after crossing floor Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast CEO of energy company behind Eraring coal power plant says extra two years will help with ‘smooth transition’ Frank Calabria , the CEO of Origin energy, spoke with RN this morning after an announcement Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant, Eraring in New South Wales, would stay open for an additional two years until 2029. A lot of good progress has been made on the transition, a lot of new infrastructure, a lot of new energy assets behind the meter. This will just enable it [to be a] smoother transition.

… We’ve made lots of investments, as you would imagine, in large batteries. We’ve got large wind farms u