Environmental laws are being used in new ways to force a review of proposed coal and gas projects, and the Australian government may finally have to take responsibility for the greenhouse emissions our exports create.
The Climate Change Authority has been strengthened after successive Coalition governments stripped it of its potential, but its role and independence remain in doubt.
Lives have been lost, homes inundated and crops destroyed. As NSW country-town residents count the cost of recent flooding, mayors say it will take five years just to rebuild roads.
When Mike Cannon-Brookes’s takeover of AGL failed, he opted for a mutiny, and it’s dragging one of Australia’s oldest companies – and our largest polluter – into a renewable energy future.
Behind the recent string of climate protests in art galleries and museums – here and overseas – is a network of organisations with backing from environmental philanthropists.
Scott Morrison never told his deputy prime minister Michael McCormack that to overrule a NSW gas project, he had himself appointed to the Resources portfolio.
As the number of climate-related disasters almost doubles, and refugee numbers surge, the UN climate summit is finally asking a key question: How do you make the countries that caused the crisis pay?
