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The climate is changing. When will the NSW Liberal Party?
First Wentworth. Then Victoria, and the school climate strike. The swing against the climate wreckers is on – and the momentum is building across NSW. |||| All around Australia people are choosing more wind and solar. They rejected the Victorian Liberal Party’s plan to scrap the renewable energy target and are rejecting leaders and parties…
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Victorian election: Pledge to undo renewable revolution sees Liberals suffer electoral annihilation
Victorians have sent a message to climate laggards across the nation by rejecting the Coalition’s plan to repeal the state’s Renewable Energy Target (VRET) and rewarding Labor’s vision to ramp up the renewables revolution. The scale of this weekend’s electoral bloodbath warrants further examination. Opposition Leader Matthew Guy started the weekend presiding over 37 seats…
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Victorians vote for a renewable-powered future
MELBOURNE, Nov 24, 2018 – Victorians have given renewable energy a big tick of approval by voting to keep Labor in government for four more years, with a mandate to expand and increase investment in solar, wind and battery storage.A short time ago, the ABC declared victory for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who led Labor…
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Students, surfers, and community unite to show oil companies they are not welcome in Apollo Bay
November 23, 2018: A student-led flotilla including kayaks, sailboats, paddle boards, and surfboards will set sail in Apollo Bay Harbour today to send a message to oil companies that they are not welcome to drill in the Great Australian Bight.The flotilla, which will begin at 1.45pm in Apollo Bay Harbour, was organised by a 15-year-old…
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POLL: Pro-renewable policies emerge as vote-winners in Victorian election
With the polls narrowing as Victorians prepare to cast their ballots in this weekend’s state election, renewable energy has emerged as a key battleground with the victor likely to be…
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Pro-renewable policies emerge as vote-winners in this weekend’s Victorian election
MELBOURNE, Nov 21, 2018 – With the polls narrowing as Victorians prepare to cast their ballots in this weekend’s state election, renewable energy has emerged as a key battleground with the victor likely to be a party with strong clean energy policies.Late last week, Greenpeace Australia Pacific commissioned Reachtel to conduct a poll of more…
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Buskers, beards and clean energy
This week Victoria goes to the polls, and the future of renewable energy and the climate is on the line. That’s why it’s absolutely crucial that voters know exactly where the parties stand on the big issues. We commissioned a special report which shows what the policies of the three major parties will mean for energy prices and…
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Oil disaster would destroy coastal communities, cost hundreds of billions
November 20, 2018: The fishing and tourism industries of coastal communities from South Australia to Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, Phillip Island and iconic Bondi Beach in Sydney would be crippled for decades should a worst-case oil disaster occur costing the economy as much as $118 billion AUD.Greenpeace have today released a new report titled Crude…