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‘Gas-led recovery’ a load of hot air

By Cyril Toman

 

The Morrison Government’s spruiking of a ‘gas-led recovery’ and gas as the ‘transition fuel’ is – as we suspected – a load of hot air. So say two independent, authoritative, reports issued recently by the Grattan …

2020 Second Hottest Year on Record

Year after year, decade after decade, temperature records are rising due to the burning of coal, oil and gas.

This month, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its Global Climate Report, confirming that 2020 was the second …

‘Woodside Enforcers’ dramatise gag order at Fringe Festival

By our ‘special correspondent’

 

As the price for continued financial support of Perth Fringe Festival, Woodside has obliged organisers and artists to self-censor and avoid any “act or omission” that might tarnish Woodside’s public image.

 

At the opening …

Extinction Rebellion’s Festival of Love and Rage

At the end of last month traffic was stopped for hours on St Georges Terrace, Perth, as the ‘Festival of Love and Rage’ brought hundreds of protesters onto the streets in civil disobedience to demand huge, urgent, change to tackle …

Australia Needs A Climate Policy

Australia needs a new National Electricity Objective.  Pages 6, 32 and 38 of the Repower Australia Plan explains this well. The National Electricity Objective (NEO) is the one sentence that rules them all.

The NEO dictates how the electricity market …