Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to the CEO of the Grattan Institute Dr Aruna Sathanapally and economics editor Patrick Commins about this week’s politics and policy debates over new datacentres, WA’s generous GST deal and migration arrival numbers

Federal Labor's determination to support renewables as the primary power source for data centres has tended to avoid any mention of one very important word.

As is so often the case in Australia, the politics came down to a fight over energy.