All articles by Vai Shah
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‘An absolute dud’: Peter Dutton’s energy plan a fail for family budgets, our kids’ future, and our environment
MELBOURNE, Thursday 27 March 2025 — Responding to Peter Dutton’s gas policy, announced tonight in his Budget Reply speech, Joe Rafalowicz, Head of Climate and Energy at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said:
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Time for Labor to rebuild shattered credibility on environment ahead of election, says Greenpeace
CANBERRA, 26 MARCH 2025—As the Prime Minister’s bill to weaken our national nature laws passes into legislation today, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged Labor to rebuild its shattered credibility on…
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Greenpeace responds to delay of North West Shelf decision
SYDNEY, Wednesday 26 March 2025 — Following a move by DCCEEW to push back the approval decision on Woodside’s application of its North West Shelf (NWS) project by two months, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged decision makers to use the additional time to thoroughly assess all available evidence, including very recent evidence about the project’s…
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific urges Parliament to vote down Albanese’s extinction Bill
CANBERRA, Tuesday 25 March 2025 — As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese introduces an ill-conceived bill to give Tasmania’s salmon industry a free pass from environmental oversight, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged parliament to vote down the legislation, calling it a death warrant for the endangered Maugean Skate:
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‘Dump the bill, not the Skate’: Albanese goes all out for wildlife extinction
SYDNEY, 20 MARCH 2025 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has slammed the Albanese Government for seeking to weaken Australia’s national nature laws in order to prop up polluting and environmentally harmful…
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‘New evidence has emerged’: Greenpeace requests revision of North West Shelf assessment criteria
PERTH, 20 MARCH 2025 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has asked Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to reconsider the criteria used to assess Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension because significant new impacts…
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Too slow, too risky, too impractical: Interim report pans nuclear
SYDNEY, 26 February 2025: Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed findings by an interim senate report that “there is limited utility in pursuing nuclear power at this point”, and called for…
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‘Silencing our voices’: Greenpeace Australia Pacific slams charity restrictions in electoral reform
CANBERRA, 12 FEB 2025—Greenpeace Australia Pacific has warned that the Electoral Reform Bill that has just passed the Parliament contains a restriction that will severely curtail the ability of charities…
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‘A dodgy distraction’: Coalition’s nuclear costings ignore key issues
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has dismissed Coalition leader Peter Dutton’s costings to build seven nuclear plants in Australia as a dodgy distraction from the fundamental unsuitability of nuclear power for Australia.
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Solutions, not subsidies: IEA energy report sounds urgent call for faster fossil fuel transition
SYDNEY, Wednesday 16 October 2024 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has called on the Australian government to heed the International Energy Agency’s warning that today’s emission reduction efforts are too slow,…