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Federal PoliticsCommentsLabor touts nature positive talkfest despite failing agenda

Tanya Plibersek will use this week’s global green summit to tout the Government’s ‘really good progress’ in turning Australia nature positive — despite Labor’s environmental agenda teetering on the brink.

Ellen Ransley and Dan Jervis-Bardy

EnvironmentPremiumMajor campaign opposing Kimberley fracking launches in Freo

A major campaign opposing WA’s largest oil and gas drilling proposal was launched in Fremantle this month, with hundreds of environmentalists rallying against fracking in the Kimberley

Katya Minns

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No point in emissions targets without a plan for cuts: Bowen

Climate Minister Chris Bowen has rubbished proposals from the Greens to more than double the level of emissions cuts in five years, saying whatever is set must be both ambitious and achievable.

Katina Curtis

Federal politicsCommentsGreens drop ‘climate trigger’ demand in Nature Positive laws

The Greens and independents are offering an alternative path for Labor to pass laws to create its Environmental Protection Agency.

Dan Jervis-Bardy

EnvironmentPremiumReforms to Environmental Protection Act face criticism

Concerns have been raised by leading environmental groups over reforms to Government legislation intended to fast-track the approval processes for major resource projects.

Katya Minns

MiningCommentsCan mining assets (& workers) survive Pilbara’s rising heat?

The unforgiving Pilbara region’s searing heat has claimed lives and derailed trains crucial to carrying a commodity worth $138b a year to our economy. And it’s getting hotter. Can our iron ore majors survive?

Paul-Alain Hunt

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No reason production tax credit plan should delay any longer

I can’t think of a good reason for the Federal Government not to bring forward its proposed production tax credits for critical minerals processing. Not only would it be good policy, it’s also good politics. 

Daniel Smith

Climate actionPremiumFunding community projects to transition to renewable energy

A range of grants are available to support community-driven projects and solutions which focus on reducing emissions and transitioning to renewable energy. 

Anjelica Smilovitis

AviationCommentsAir NZ axes climate goal as aviation struggles to go green

Air New Zealand has scrapped its 2030 climate target as the sector grapples with a lack of cleaner fuels and more efficient aircraft, a rare admission of the challenges the industry faces to decarbonise. 

David Stringer

MarketsCommentsPremiumFirms ’paralysed’ as Australia prepares tough climate rules

Australia’s plans to introduce stringent rules on climate disclosures are driving up concerns among businesses about compliance in one of the world’s biggest per-capita emitters. 

Ishika Mookerjee

MiningCommentsBusiness groups slam Nature Positive laws in fiery hearing

Australia’s businesses are increasingly united against Federal Labor’s radical environmental law reforms, with one lobby group boss stating job opportunities will be whittled down to taxis and cafes.

Adrian Rauso

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Eye-watering economic cost of climate trigger revealed

A climate trigger would put more than $220 billion worth of economic investment at risk, according to new research from conservative think tank IPA.

Dan Jervis-Bardy

Federal PoliticsCommentsPremiumALP’s nature watchdog will be ‘unaccountable, secretive’

The proposed Federal nature watchdog risks being an expensive, bloated bureaucracy that is unaccountable and highly secretive, a conservative think tank has warned.

Dan Jervis-Bardy

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Two more Federal seats in the sights of Teal movement

The Teals are coming for WA. Climate 200, which has donated thousands of dollars to a group in Forrest looking to run an independent.

Joe Spagnolo

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It is time to play to our energy strengths

Australia has a clear choice about our journey to net zero. We can stick with Anthony Albanese’s plan of renewables or go with Peter Dutton’s nuclear idea. But we must always lean into economic diversification.

Daniel Smith

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History a reminder of why nuclear may not be way forward

George Bernard Shaw somewhat cynically observed ‘we learn from history that we learn nothing from history’. Could the same be said for Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan?

Andrew Miller

Federal politicsCommentsClimate bickering creating huge problems for investors

Australia risks losing investment to the US, Asia and Europe as the reignited climate wars bring instability and uncertainty back to the policy environment, business groups warn.

Katina Curtis

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PM’s climate attack against Dutton an uneeded distraction

Is Peter Dutton or Scott Morrison the Liberal leader to have the worst record on climate? That is the debate currently consuming our Federal politicians.

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Anthony Albanese adds the personal touch to climate attack

Comments by Peter Dutton in a newspaper interview about the Coalition’s climate stance have been dissected and attacked by the Government as if they amounted to a full policy announcement.

Katina Curtis

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‘Dutton worse than Morrison’: PM goes on attack over climate

Anthony Albanese has labelled Peter Dutton as ‘worse than Scott Morrison’ on climate change after the Liberal suggested the Coalition would focus on an overarching push to net zero by 2050.

Katina Curtis

EconomyPremiumInvestors aren’t considering Australia’s climate risks

Major investors in Australia aren’t responding fast enough to rising threats to infrastructure and other assets from cyclones, floods and natural disasters, according to a group focused on climate risks.

Angus Whitley and Amy Bainbridge

Federal PoliticsCommentsPremium‘Ridiculous’: Big development in EDO Federal funding row

Federal officials were grilled about a multimillion-dollar grant to the Environmental Defenders Office during Senate estimates on Tuesday.

Dan Jervis-Bardy

Federal PoliticsCommentsPremium‘Nuclear can stack up despite eye-watering costs’: Libs

The nation’s top science agency has put a massive price tag on the cost of building a nuclear power plant.

Dan Jervis-Bardy

STATE POLITICSPremiumBasil Zempilas meets the Pope at Vatican climate summit

Perth’s Lord Mayor has met with Pope Francis alongside the mayors of some of the world’s biggest cities as part of a climate change summit organised by the Vatican. 

Josh Zimmerman