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Another one Bights the dust: Port Lincoln the thirteenth council to move to oppose oil drilling in Southern Ocean
September 4, 2018: Councils representing one third of all voters in South Australia have now moved voted to ban oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight.Last night Port Lincoln council successfully moved a motion to oppose any drilling in the Bight, becoming the thirteenth council to do so. Their decision is yet another blow to…
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Melbourne artists carve ice sculptures of Australian PMs toppled over climate policy
MELBOURNE, Aug 29, 2018 – Melbourne artists commissioned by Greenpeace have carved a spectacular ice sculpture, displaying three large busts of the Australian prime ministers toppled by the fossil fuel industry for acting to prevent climate change.Groups of passers-by stopped to watch as two artists went to work transforming 1m-high blocks of ice, into busts…
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Liberals put coal hugger in the Lodge as Scott Morrison claims top job
SYDNEY, Aug 24, 2018 – The man who brought a lump of coal into parliament to berate those advocating the clean renewable energy Australians love has been elevated to the prime ministership.This afternoon the Liberal Party voted to install Scott Morrison as their new leader, after a right-wing push tore down former prime minister Malcolm…
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The NEG is dead but Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership is not the only victim
SYDNEY, Aug 22, 2018 – The dogged resistance of ordinary Australians who love renewables has combined with Victoria and other state and territory Labor states to kill off Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s renewables-wrecking National Energy Guarantee (NEG).However, the debacle has also exposed the depth of climate denialism within the Coalition, which has once again torn…
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Embattled Turnbull completes capitulation to the coal huggers by abandoning climate element of NEG
SYDNEY, Aug 20, 2018 – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again bowed to the extremists in the Coalition and removed the emissions reduction component of the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), retreating from the fight against climate change in a desperate bid to save his leadership.This morning, the PM held a news conference at which he…
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Greenpeace congratulates Andrews government plan to save 650,000 Victorian households $890 a year with solar rooftops
SYDNEY, Aug 19, 2018: The Victorian Premier’s plan to subsidise the installation of hundreds of thousands of solar panels on the state’s roofs is an act of climate leadership, and an example of the type of hands-on renewable energy policy that will drive down power prices, in contrast to the Coalition’s do-nothing National Energy Guarantee…
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Turnbull leadership on life support as he tries to appease the coal huggers and makes the do-nothing NEG an environmental ticking time-bomb
SYDNEY, Aug 17, 2018 – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is bungling his way to political oblivion by seeking to appease the coal huggers in the Coalition by making the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) even more destructive than it already is.This evening, the under siege PM tried to quell a group of rebel MPs signalling their…
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Labor must reject NEG as weak PM loses control of the Coalition over do-nothing climate policy
SYDNEY, Aug 17, 2018 – With members of the Coalition in open rebellion, talks of ministerial resignations, a leadership coup and the Energy Security Board flagging more last minute changes to the NEG, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull must abandon this dodgy deal.Yesterday, Queensland MP George Christensen said he could only support the NEG with a…
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No deal! Victoria to go over NEG bill with fine-tooth comb to see what Turnbull has given up to the Coalition’s climate sceptics
SYDNEY, Aug 15, 2018 – Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said she will thoroughly examine the proposed state bill to legislate the NEG mechanism with a fine tooth comb to see what concessions Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made to win the begrudging support of the climate sceptics and denialists in the Coalition.Last night, following…
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Great Barrier Reef lotto win that’s morally bankrupt
IT’S a fact that almost 70 per cent of lotto winners end up flat broke within a few years. They don’t know how to spend all that money, lack perspective, and spend irresponsibly. This piece was originally published on The Courier-Mail. It makes you wonder what the Government was thinking when it decided to ignore…
