It's often said the regulatory environment (red tape) is one of the biggest hurdles to companies investing in renewable energy. Create the right conditions though - deliver business certainty - and Australia can (and now has) come out on top: Victoria leading the charge in developing a $1 billion wind farm, one of the largest in the world and the Southern Hemisphere's biggest transaction in this space to date. A JV between New Zealand's Meridian Energy and AGL, the Macarthur wind farm set to be built in southwest Victoria. Anna Collyer (Allens Arthur Robinson Partner) has been involved in the JV throughout and joins Law TV to shed fresh insight into the project.

With the federal election now almost upon us, Chris Merritt, Legal Editor at The Australian, looks at the conflicting approaches of the coalition and Labor when it comes to the law.