The Coalition’s proposal to direct gas for export to the domestic market has support from those who favour cuts to production – but that’s not what the plan envisages.
Despite repeated warnings from scientists, the Tasmanian salmon industry has been run with exemptions to biosecurity regulation and under a regime that was weakened at its urging.
Weeks before mass salmon deaths were revealed in Tasmania, the government quietly changed the designation of the bacteria killing the fish – which the industry now admits are being sold from infected leases.
The involvement of the public service in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred underscores the reality of the Coalition’s promise to cut 36,000 people from government departments.
The government invited only the progressive independents – excluding the Greens, the Coalition and the relevant parliamentary committee – to a briefing on the still-unpublished Climate Risk Assessment report.
Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean joins critics of the Coalition’s energy policy, with a scathing rebuke to the ‘deliberately obstructionist’ forces slowing Australia’s progress on climate.
Concerns are being raised about the former foreign minister’s consultancy work for a company suing Greenland over US$11.5 billion of uranium exploitation.
As the government moved this week to kill off its own environmental reform, there is anger and disappointment within Labor’s ranks over the sacrifice to economic interests.
Tanya Plibersek has sought an ‘urgent briefing’ on the management of the Bureau of Meteorology after it was revealed it was using hundreds of millions of dollars in maintenance funds to cover cost overruns.
