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Chris Bowen announces new government’s climate policy

June 7, 2022 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes Chris Bowen, Australia’s new climate minister has vowed to cut taxes on electric vehicles and a $20 billion “rewiring the nation” commitment to build a renewable energy grid. A climate bill will be introduced […]

The floods prove volunteers can only do so much when the government goes awol

March 19, 2022 Editor 0

The following has been written by RFS volunteer in western Sydney and a GetUp member. He gives his view on the Morrison government’s failure to respond and provide vital support for communities suffering in the floods that […]

Video: The Cooper floodplains are threatened by coal seam gas

March 3, 2022 Editor 0

The future of the Channel Country is on the line. While the Queensland Government delays protecting the rivers and floodplains, oil and gas giants are on the march. It’s time to protect the Channel Country […]

Scott Morrison’s electric vehicle revolution is a fake

November 15, 2021 Editor 0

By Ben Wilson After returning from a disastrous appearance at COP 26, Scott Morrison has unveiled his plan to embrace electric vehicles. This is not as it might appear. It is a ploy designed to […]

Both bad climate policy and no policy will see Australia lose jobs and investment overseas

October 29, 2021 Editor 0

Brian Wilcox, the chief executive of the national employer association, the Australian Industry Group (AI), wrote the following article (The Guardian 16 October 2021). He puts the case for Australia embracing a carbon neutral policy […]

Coal companies are being helped to sidestep protection of the environment

September 14, 2021 Editor 0

From New South Wales Australia has been lied to. Environmental protection rules are being pushed aside to help new coal mines to operate with impunity. A key centre is New South Wales, where the federal […]

Central banks helping funnel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels despite climate pledges

September 7, 2021 Editor 0

Theodore Whyte (Resilience 26 August 2021) argues that central banks across the world are being less than honest about pledges to pull out of the fossil fuel industry when they are doing the opposite. A […]

Climate crisis report puts reality about climate on centre stage

August 23, 2021 Editor 0

By Joe Montero The world has just received the strongest wake up call yet on the threat of the climate crisis. It comes in the form of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

Europe’s flooding shows climate solutions must be driven by people power

August 9, 2021 Editor 0

Lesley Rankin is a researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). She wrote the following article (Open Democracy 28 July 2021), and argues that the failure to do enough to tackle the climate […]

The UN is moving to list the Great Barrier Reef as threatened by global warming

June 25, 2021 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes United Nations officials have begun moves to put Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the UNSCO list of “in danger” world heritage sites. Being on the list would pressure the Australian government to […]

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