As Scott Morrison wipes the egg from his face following his dismal performance at COP26, Sue Bull argues that climate campaigners have to step up their campaign to force a听just transition.
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The 鈥済as is cleaner鈥 lie is but one of scores of Orwellian falsehoods in look-the-other-way听neoliberal Australia, argues Gideon Polya.
Putting unelected corporate CEOs in charge of Australia's COVID-19 economic recovery makes the fight to secure a safe climate future a lot tougher, argues Paul Gregoire.
There is a lot of whinging from bleeding heart liberals about 鈥渁ttacks鈥 on the unemployed such as proposed mandatory drug testing, expanding welfare 鈥渜uarantining鈥 and the ongoing process of to welfare recipients that has been .听
It is bad enough that Australia is not on track to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 26鈥28% on 2005 levels by 2030, as it is notionally committed to doing, but according to the government's own figures, it is only set to reduce them by 5%. What makes it worse is that even the 26鈥28% target is very conservative and unlikely to be sufficient.
In truth, wealthy industrialised countries like ours should be seeking to become net zero emission economies and societies, both because we can and because it is simply not worth gambling with the continued existence of life as we know it.
A new report has found that methane leakage and fugitive emissions from unconventional gas fields are likely to be much higher than industry estimates, largely because it is neither accounting for nor reporting on them.