Climate
Rebuilding after climate chaos 'creates jobs', but isn’t economic progress
Climate change will create jobs, but rebuilding what’s been destroyed is not progress.
The devil is in the devolution: are the states mounting an EPBC takeover?
Speaking to the press after passage of amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act last Thursday, Western Australian Premier, Roger Cook, indicated that he expected federal powers would be devolved to the state within a “matter of months”.
Nicolette Boele is right: we do not have a gas supply problem
The claim: “We do not have a gas supply problem. We have a gas export problem.” That’s from Independent member for Bradfield, Nicolette Boele, who moved a private member’s motion in the House of Representatives on Monday, calling on the Government to restrict gas exports to solve shortages.
Greens say new gas won’t fix shortages as research links exports to soaring prices
The Greens have put the Albanese Government on notice, warning they’ll block any gas-shortage response that includes funnelling more public money into new gas fields.
Labor’s COP30 fossil fuel phase-out doublespeak
You could be forgiven for thinking Australia’s support last week for the COP30 declaration on a “transition away from fossil fuels”, means the Australia Government is, or at least intends to transition away from fossil fuels.
'The good has become the enemy of better’: why the Senate refused to accept Labor’s first EPBC draft
'Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ has become the catch-cry of proud 'centrists' in Australia. But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better.
Explainer: What’s wrong with the environment law reboot?
The Federal Government has passed reforms to federal environment laws with amendments from the Greens. The amendments have improvements in relation to native forest logging, illegal landclearing and fossil fuel projects, but there are still plenty of problems.
The latest projection shows Australia is not even close to meeting its 2035 emissions target
Well the Government really is feeling its oats because not only has it released the quarterly emissions figures, it has also released the annual greenhouse gas emissions projections
Australia’s sales of big cars are out of control
Australia has a big “big car” problem; we have too many SUVs and utes, and we keep getting lots more of them.
Hope for Net Zero in Trump politics
There is much cause for hope on Net Zero. There is enough happening as we go over the waterfall to see a better future now emerging.
