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Labor’s safeguard mechanism does more to save the fossil fuel industry than it does the planet
…as they buy some offsets. It does nothing to drive investment in renewables, nothing to boost electric vehicles or energy efficiency and, of course, nothing to stop new gas and…
Getting Off Gas: Majority Support Household Electrification as Economic, Climate Costs Rise
…it comes to our cars, Australians felt most positive about hybrid vehicles (58% very or somewhat positive), followed by electric vehicles (52%) and then combustion engine vehicles (44%). 25% of…
Australia at risk of exclusion from renewable manufacturing boom
…held in Canberra. Key points: There is an overseas manufacturing boom in the productions of batteries, electric vehicles, renewable energy generation and transmission equipment, and other renewable energy products. This…
The Coalition’s nuclear power crusade is a futile distraction
…a key skill. Whether it is turning refugees arriving on boats (as opposed to planes) into a national security crisis, turning electric vehicles into the ‘end of the weekend’, or…
Funding Australia’s renewable transition isn’t ‘picking winners’ – it’s securing our future
…we need to be part of the manufacturing supply chain. Sure, we likely won’t be making electric vehicles, but there are many things we can make using renewable energy to…
Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
…“the rescinding of all funds not already spent by these programs”. This would include removing “federal mandates and subsidies of electric vehicles”. There is, in all, a great deal to…
Should Australia ban fossil fuel advertising?
…‘carbon-intensive’ sources including airlines and airports, fossil fuel companies, cars (except electric and hydrogen vehicles) and cruises. As Andrew Simms, author and co-founder of the U.K.’s Badvertising group, tells Forbes,…
Australia's greenhouse strategy: can the future be rescued?
The National Greenhouse Response Strategy agreed between the Commonwealth and the States has failed to make any impact on Australia�s greenhouse gas emissions. After two years of its operation, there…
Revenue Summit 2022
…| National Council CEO, St Vincent de Paul Society; Tim Washington | CEO Jetcharge; Chair, Electric Vehicle Council; Assoc Prof Elizabeth Hill | University of Sydney; Deputy Director, Gender Equality…
Submission: Senate inquiry into greenwashing
It is no accident that there are no credible policies or regulatory measures to address rising emissions by industry in Australia. Nor is it an accident that there are no…