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Angus Taylor, Matt Canavan, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce.

‘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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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
Thami Croeser demonstrates how the street trees on Canning Street in Carlton are failing to thrive, compared with the established trees in Carlton Gardens.

The simple fix that will cool our streets – if only we get it right

While street trees often fail to thrive, the solutions to help these urban oases flourish are devastatingly simple.

  • Bianca Hall
Andrew Forrest at Sydney airport in January 2021 boarding the Fortescue Metals private jet to fly back to Perth.

Twiggy Forrest takes his updated private jet for a blast to Africa

The Australian climate change messiah used his Fortescue private jet for a recent trip to Africa after getting the aircraft fitted with a new engine.

  • John Buckley and Fiona Byrne
Energy expect Professor Ty Christopher.

‘Diesel is the new bog roll’: Let’s make this fuel crisis our last

If people “calmed their farm” we would have sufficient fuel supply for all Australians, according to this power industry expert.

  • Peter FitzSimons
A tiny forest nine months after planting at Cedar Brush Creek on the Central Coast.

How forests the size of tennis courts transform Australian cities

You’ve heard of tiny homes, but what about tiny forests? It’s a growing movement in Australia, based on Japanese ideas.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Graham Palmer is a 79-year-old renter in Ringwood who has been trying to get solar panels installed in his four unit block to save on power, but has been blocked by investor owners.

‘We’ve been left out’: The home owners locked out of cheap energy

Some Victorians who are keen to electrify their homes are unable to do so as easily as their neighbours.

  • Caroline Zielinski
CSIRO’s modelling has been used to predict the impact of climate change on Australia and its neighbours.

‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: CSIRO slashes climate modelling jobs

Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.

  • Bianca Hall
Electric Vehicle sales have delivered a significant turnaround in the nation’s progress towards its climate targets.

The controversial tax break driving down carbon emissions for the first time since COVID

The rising popularity of EVs has reversed a stubborn trend in the nation’s pollution.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood years of second best climate policy continues to weigh on the economy and greenhouse gas reduction.

Australians bearing the brunt of ‘second-best’ climate plans

One of the nation’s leading economists says Australians are paying the price for a political class that is “far from brave” when it comes to climate policy.

  • Shane Wright