Nick O'Malley
Nick O'Malley is National Environment and Climate Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is also a senior writer and a former US correspondent.
‘Climate denial on steroids’: How the global anti-climate movement is fracturing right-wing politics at home
Populists are waging a war against climate action around the world, but in Australia the fiercest battle is among the right-wing parties over policy “purity”.
- Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
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How the arrival of a BYD ship marks a sea change in Australian motoring
The Chinese car maker has made a splash in Melbourne with the arrival of a vessel carrying thousands of electric vehicles. BYD now plans to take down Australia’s favourite car brands.
- Nick O'Malley
An enormous ship docked in Melbourne on Sunday. Its cargo could permanently change Australian motoring
In a major flex of Chinese industrial muscle, a company has used its own purpose-built ship to respond to rampant demand from Australian consumers.
- Nick O'Malley
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- Electric vehicles
Ferrari’s first EV costs $900,000 – and so far it’s not going well
Woke brainwashing or petro-nostalgia? The new Ferrari Luce has drawn comparisons to the Nissan Leaf and is stirring a violent response.
- Nick O'Malley
UK wilts under brutal spring heat as records set to tumble
A “heat dome” is forecast to linger across parts of Europe as the prospects of an El Nino continue to firm.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
Our fragile world is being hammered by one crisis after another. It’s about to get worse
A war-induced oil shock is bad, but a supercharged version of a familiar climate pattern could add to the misery.
- Nick O'Malley
Legend. Icon. Prophet. David Attenborough on the cusp of 100
The beloved documentary maker brought nature into the world’s lounge rooms, but is not without his critics.
- Nick O'Malley
Rudd calls to harness ‘physical terror’ of fuel shortages to push renewables
In the first public comments by Kevin Rudd since leaving the post of US ambassador, the former prime minister said the war in the Middle East presented an opportunity for the federal government.
- Bianca Hall and Nick O'Malley
Fiji is an odd place to try to solve Australia’s waste crisis – and the locals are not happy
Modern waste-to-energy plants are cleaner and greener than their predecessors, so why are so many Australians opposed to them?
- Nick O'Malley
Lack of chargers stalls grand plans for electric cars
The growing EV charging industry is battling with the old energy giants for control of a new source of revenue.
- Nick O'Malley