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‘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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This ‘energy crisis’ is fixable. We already have the answers
Australia stands at a crossroads. But a more secure, competitive and prosperous future is possible.
- Christiana Figueres
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
In the Trump era of America first, scientists fear for the future of Antarctica
There are growing concerns the treaty that has protected the last great wilderness for nearly 70 years may not hold as the old rules-based world order disintegrates along with the sea ice.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Trumpian policies Pauline Hanson would roll out if One Nation ran Australia
As One Nation and Pauline Hanson threaten to overtake the fractured Coalition as the nation’s leading conservative force, we test if the party’s policies make practical and economic sense.
- James Hall
The past three years were the world’s hottest on record
The world is likely to miss the Paris Agreement goals to limit global heating to between 1.5 and 2 degrees above the pre-industrial average, making climate adaptation and “net negative” policies increasingly important.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Confidential advice undercooked climate change to Howard government
Cabinet briefings in 2005 warned of climate change, but did not anticipate the scale and severity of the impacts now playing out.
- Mike Foley
Former health boss warns bureaucratic quagmire threatens WA’s exit from coal
Former East Metropolitan Health Service chief executive Liz MacLeod has revealed a laundry list of issues with the department responsible for WA’s energy transition.
- Hamish Hastie
NSW should end coal expansions to meet net zero targets
A state government agency has declared that NSW cannot meet its climate targets if it keeps approving new coal mine extensions.
- Nick O'Malley
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic
Record output from renewable energy means emissions from coal plants are down as Australia’s greenhouse output has fallen for the first time in years.
- Mike Foley and Nick Toscano