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The man who claims he created Qantas’ iconic slogan ‘Spirit of Australia’ has angrily demanded they remove the title, saying it is a ‘tragic inappropriate’ to describe the airline under attack. Phillip Adams, columnist for The Weekend Australian magazine and host of ABC Radio National, said he convinced former chairman Jim Leslie to adopt the tagline in the 1980s and Peter Allen to allow his iconic song I Still Call Australia Home to become Qantas’ national anthem. However, last week the former advertising guru directed an angry message at airline boss Alan Joyce demanding they stop the catchphrase because of an ongoing scandal involving laid-off staff, canceled flights, lost baggage and lengthy delays. ‘Alan Joyce. You are forced to repeat yourself. I am the author of ‘The Australian Spirit’. Then deserved, now tragically inappropriate,” he wrote on Twitter. ‘My slogan is hereby vetoed. Please remove it from all airf...

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has received an overwhelming response to its offer of a $100 million grant for an ‘advanced’ grid-scale battery project, which is seen as critical to the transition to a 100 percent renewable energy grid. A shortlist of 12 projects representing capacity in excess of 3GW and 7GWh storage was completed from more than 54 proposals. ARENA said its response “far exceeded expectations,” and underlined the major development path of Australia’s large battery storage project. Funding will be provided for at least three projects and selected projects have been asked to submit full applications for their share of the funding offer, available for new and existing projects equipped with ‘advanced’ inverters. Selected projects totaled a combined $297 million of grant requests, for a total investment value of $3.7 billion. The figures suggest that ARENA’s funding could eventually support the development of approx...