Several detailed studies have now shown up the 鈥済as-led economic recovery鈥 plan as a fraud. Peter Boyle argues that the corporate sector cannot be trusted to make the urgently-needed shift to decarbonise.
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released on January 9 by the Australia Institute think tank show that even before the bush fire emergency peak around the week following New Year's eve,聽 66% of people in Australia believe the country "is facing a climate change emergency and should take emergency action".
The Australia聽Institute (TAI) released its latest annual Climate of the Nation 2019 report on September 10. The annual report, first produced by the Climate Institute and for the past two years by TAI, has been tracking attitudes on climate change for more than a decade.
This image captured Labor鈥檚 class betrayal on July 3, the first day of the new federal parliament, when it voted with the Coalition government for tax cuts for the rich.
Amid the chaos of #libspill, the Coalition government's signature plan to cut the big business tax rate from 30 to 25% for companies with turnover above $50 million was blocked in the Senate on August 22. The vote was 36 to 30.
Australian Electoral Office documents clearly show the extent of the cosy relationship between mining corporations and the Coalition and Labor parties.
The Australia Institute says developing the Northern Territory's shale oil and gas resources would release an extra 34 billion tonnes of carbon, 60 times Australia's current annual carbon pollution.
that the army take control of gas resources in states that have banned or limited unconventional gas mining shows the lengths to which the recalcitrant fossil fools will go to defend dirty energy corporations, which are under increasing fire as the national debate over energy security continues.聽
Queensland Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk鈥檚 2015 election commitments to transparent decision making, no 鈥渟ecret deals鈥 and that the Adani project must 鈥渟tand alone on its feet ... on the economics of the project itself鈥 have been challenged by documents released under a Right to Information request.
Federal Treasurer , and accuses Labor of pursuing a dishonest campaign based on the "politics of envy". Morrison claims Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's statement that inequality has reached a 75-year high is a "lie".
The Australia Institute (TAI) said the federal government鈥檚 $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) lacks resources and lags behind other comparable government organisations in terms of process and disclosure and in operational funding.
The government has said it would 鈥渓ook seriously鈥 at using the fund to provide $1 billion to build a railway to carry coal from the controversial Adani Carmichael coalmine in Queensland to port for export and for a 鈥渃lean coal鈥 baseload power plant.
Company profits have skyrocketed, while real wages have fallen. This is the harsh reality of the class war being pursued by Australia鈥檚 big-business rulers, as underlined by the latest Bureau of Statistics figures released on February 27.
In the last three months of last year, profits surged by a massive 20%, while wages fell by 0.5%. Over 2016, profits were up 26%, while wages grew by a mere 1%, less than the inflation rate of 1.5% 鈥 effectively a wage cut.
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