The Point Weekend Quiz
How well have you kept up with the week's stories? Take the quiz and find out.
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When direct subsidies and indirect costs are taken into account, private health insurance rebates cost the taxpayer more than $12 billion a year, yet there is little evidence to prove they achieve their primary goal of taking pressure off the public health system.
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Three Greens Senators have crossed the floor to support a disallowance motion which would stop a new method to increase the supply of carbon credits. It comes after Greens Leader Senator Larissa Waters said her party would vote with the government this afternoon to allow the method.
In an Instagram video, the Executive Director of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation (ACBF), Lyndon Schneiders, discusses the controversial Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) offset method and wider climate policy in Australia. While ACBF’s support for carbon offsets was expected, there are plenty of unexpected bits in the video. Let’s unpack a few...
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Australia’s coal mines are increasingly reliant on carbon credits to offset their emissions, according to new analysis from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
The Minerals Council of Australia is advertising that mining companies pay “at least 30 cents of every dollar to government”, rising to as much as 54 cents “once royalties are included”. Except, this is not correct.
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The Greens have fired back over comments made by Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who warned the party it would be a “betrayal” to team up with the Coalition to block new methodology to create carbon offsets from public native forests.
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