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Sales practices in Australia’s domestic travel sector, competition in aviation and the conduct of some caravan manufacturers - along with sales issues with digital platforms, energy and telecommunications and other business and industry sectors - have been laid out by Australia’s competition and consumer watchdog, the ACCC, in its compliance and enforcement priorities for 2021.

For years now, companies have teased the ability to charge devices truly wirelessly, receiving power through the air like your device receives Wi-Fi, but despite new demos from Xiaomi and Lenovo's Motorola last week, you can't buy an air charger yet.

A network of regional hydrogen technology clusters has been unveiled across Australia, as part of a drive to establish a nationwide hydrogen cluster.

Victorian electricity distributor, CitiPower, and the Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF) have signed a new agreement in a move they say will unlock the potential of community-scale battery storage in the Melbourne CBD and inner-city suburbs.

Thirty-five thousand Australian premises are yet to be connected to the national broadband network, but Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has declared that the network is "built and fully operational".

The RACV has announced a $1 million investment in solar and battery installations for bushfire-prone areas of Victoria over the next two years, in a move it says will improve safety for isolated communities that could otherwise be cut off from power and communications during emergencies.

Some technologies, like laser printers, can have high energy and environmental costs, but new “ground-breaking research” shows that the latest tech can significantly reduce those costs - while delivering other genuinely useful tech improvements.

Scientists from the University of Sydney have created a water-splitting catalyst that needs less energy to produce pure hydrogen than earlier catalysts, the organisation says.

The UK is expected to announce this week that it will bring forward its phasing out of the sale of new cars that run on petrol and diesel to 2030.

Energy company AGL has launched a suite of broadband products as part of its stated strategy to evolve into a multi-product retailer operating across energy, data and telecommunications.