A shadowy network of ‘dark fleets’ is allowing Russia’s oil export market to escape sanction and threatens to undo any of the good Australia has done in supplying military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Starvation now threatens one of Australia’s few disease-free koala populations due to a lack of habitat, as wildlife rescue volunteers are overwhelmed with calls for help.
An Australian lobbyist now leading the world’s key coal body addressed the National Press Club this week, demonstrating a sophisticated pivot in global fossil fuel messaging.
As governments meet for COP30 in Brazil, the debate about the continuance of fossil fuels as a worldwide energy source threatens the very heart of the Paris Agreement.
Environment Minister Murray Watt tells The Saturday Paper he is convinced his reforms will pass before the end of the year, although the Greens and the Coalition are both wary of supporting them in their current form.
Labor is hoping to push through its environmental reforms next week, seeking to pass them without revealing the national environmental standards on which they would depend.
The federal government’s Future Gas Strategy, which backs extending production through to 2050 and beyond, is based on contested EY research commissioned by Australian Energy Producers.
The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.
The Senate inquiry into climate misinformation invited both News Corp and Advance to its hearings – senators have received 5000 emails from Advance supporters, telling them to back off.
