September 5, 2018: Labor’s declaration they will look to reclaim $443 million of public money from a foundation backed by big polluters is a good step but will still fail to address the real cause of the Great Barrier Reef’s decline.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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 (NEG). [1]
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.
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.
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.