“The government will honour its contract on the Solar Dawn project,” Minister for Energy and Water Supply Mark McArdle tells Recharge in a statement.

The Liberal National Party swept into office in March – led by former Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman – committing to abolish eight of the previous Labor administration's environmental funds, including its contribution to Solar Dawn. "If we can exit this project and save, I think it is A$75m, we will,” Newman said at the time.

But