Louise Morris
Louise is an award-winning advocate with 20 years’ experience encompassing climate, energy, forest protection, and law reform in the not-for-profit sector, and federal politics before joining The Australia Institute.
Evidence of seismic blasting's harms are clear, but policy has not caught up
A growing body of scientific research shows seismic blasting seriously harms marine ecosystems from the smallest plankton to the largest whales. Yet, seismic blasting remains routine because it sits at the beginning of the fossil fuel extraction process.
Australia only has one shot at taxing our gas exports, and we’re missing out
When Russia invaded Ukraine, it triggered something far less discussed in Australia: one of the biggest unplanned gas export profits in modern history. Gas prices spiked. Exporting companies made off like bandits. Australians failed to reap any benefit from our exported gas price spike
The Wrap: Gaslit politics
For years, the idea of properly taxing gas exports has been treated as politically untenable - something governments approached dismissively, if at all. But as global conflict pushes up energy prices and gas company profits surge, that dismissiveness is starting to look like negligence.
Australians are footing the bill for climate damage while fossil fuel export profits soar. We can fix this.
Australia is already paying the price of climate change. The evidence appears almost daily on the national emergency map. Just this week alone, major flooding has inundated communities in Queensland, with homes and businesses flooded in Bundaberg. Flooding across the Northern Territory has forced evacuations in remote communities.
