2 - 8 Dec 2023
John Hewson The new climate denial
23 Nov 2023
The AI - Petition: Stop new coal mine approvals
3 Sep 2022
TSP: In approving almost 47,000 square kilometres for offshore oil and gas
exploration, the Labor government is jeopardising its climate target and
echoing the Coalition’s spurious case for energy security.
By Mike Seccombe.
16 June 2022
Bernard Keane viaCrikey: Having gained massive power through political influence, fossil fuel
companies decided to abuse that power to the point where the electricity market broke down.
Energy Market
14 June 2022
Gu: Sky News Australia is a global hub for climate misinformation, report says
9 June 2022
7.30: Leigh Sale's last interview
The new Minister for Energy, Chris Bowen guest: "Renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy, and that includes transmission and storage."
5 June 2022
Richard Denniss viaGu: If Australia taxed windfall gas profits
9 June 2021
Gu: Mice, floods and the climate crisis: why your insurance won’t cover society-wide catastrophes
5 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020
Disallowance
motion from Labor Senator McAllister. Undated notice provided by Mat
Canavan, who has learnt nothing from the bush fires last year. 
Australian government stops listing major threats to species under environment laws
Canberra Time: I lost my home in the South Coast bushfires. Here's what I'd like to say to the PM
13 Dec 2019
Young climate change activist, Gretha Thunberg wins Time Magazine's Person of The Year Award for 2019:
31 Oct 2019
Gu: Not a drop of water after government spends 80m ..
29 Oct 2019
RN: Australia's biggest class action over PFAS land contamination
25 Oct 2019
According to late news of the day, he says sorry..
Mark Dreyfus has written to NSW police commissioner about the document used to attack Clover Moore. Also attached is the letter (ref IA news)
24 Oct 2019
Labor Mark Butler refers Angus Taylor matter to the police
Gu/politics live: Energy minister says he makes no apology for attack on Sydney lord mayor over emissions, despite use of false figures
Updated petition ref no: EN1041: over 400,000 signatures
16 Oct 2019 FoI (Cth)
9 Oct 2019
Labor calls for audit of govt's claimed $7B drought package
Drought funding: Useful resources from Bee
28 Sep 2019 TSP/news/politics
NSW farmers - class action on water
23 & 25 & 27 Sep 2019
#DroughtEnvoy continued
An update ($675K for drought envoy with less than 3 weeks on the ground
plus $200k for two positions and still no written report..)
Sarah Martin, political correspondence chief from The Guardian:
Labor calls for release of drought envoy reports - barnaby joyce says he sent via text
20 Sep 2019
Mates deal on #watergate scandal by MW
Climate Strike
3 Mar 2019
Amy Remeikis@TheGuardian on the energy minister interview on #InsidersABC this morning, Angus Taylor repeated lying that Australia's greenhouse emissions are falling.
8 Dec 2018 Federal Politics
Rallies across Australia against Adani coal mine in Qld
22 Nov 2018
1 September 2018
18 Aug 2018
Happy Sunday Victoria!
Kim Carr: Labor will continue to ask Qs about the reef money. Labor trusts scientists to save the GBR, while the Liberals prefer their big business mates.
14 Aug 2018
10 Aug 2018 COAG
Victoria Holds Firm On Renewables.
No thing achieved at coag meeting apart from an agreement to keep talking. Frydenberg claims victory and media supports and Murdoch mainstream media keeps repeating.
FYI
24 July 2018
Fake news from AFR front page re: NEG will save household $550 per year. Show thread
Here's real news from energy transition specialist, simon holmes a court via The Drum
also fyi
12 June 2018
Blockading Wagners
13 May 2018
Gu: NZ bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'
2 May 2018
Young climate change activist, Gretha Thunberg wins Time Magazine's Person of The Year Award for 2019:
31 Oct 2019
Gu: Not a drop of water after government spends 80m ..
RN: Australia's biggest class action over PFAS land contamination
25 Oct 2019
According to late news of the day, he says sorry..
Related? AngusTaylorMP's twitt on 14 August 2018 spot on by Shaun
Labor Mark Butler refers Angus Taylor matter to the police
Gu/politics live: Energy minister says he makes no apology for attack on Sydney lord mayor over emissions, despite use of false figures
25 Apr 2019 Gu: Barnaby Joyce & Watergate explained
MW thread: Question for Barnaby and Angus re: shares in the Caymans
The water buybacks continued and the story just keeps on giving
Updated petition ref no: EN1041: over 400,000 signatures
16 Oct 2019 FoI (Cth)
Gu: Australia’s environment department is unlawfully withholding more than 10,000 pages of freedom of information documents from the public
inc papers relating to Angus Taylor's #grassgate affair and Adani groundwater approvals.
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Update on petition reference number EN1041. There are 351,781 signatures on this petition.
inc papers relating to Angus Taylor's #grassgate affair and Adani groundwater approvals.
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Update on petition reference number EN1041. There are 351,781 signatures on this petition.
9 Oct 2019
fyi: Citizens petition to parliament to debate climate change
Please consider signing this petition to get our parliamentary
lower house to take action.
Make sure you follow the three steps to register a valid signature
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1. Fill out the form and send
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3. Acknowledge the email you receive by clicking in the link in the email provided
The petition already has almost 1/4 million signatures which is is about 1% of all Australians
1 Oct 2019
Labor calls for audit of govt's claimed $7B drought package
Drought funding: Useful resources from Bee
28 Sep 2019 TSP/news/politics
NSW farmers - class action on water
23 & 25 & 27 Sep 2019
#DroughtEnvoy continued
plus $200k for two positions and still no written report..)
Sarah Martin, political correspondence chief from The Guardian:
Labor calls for release of drought envoy reports - barnaby joyce says he sent via text
20 Sep 2019
Mates deal on #watergate scandal by MW
Climate Strike
Amy Remeikis@TheGuardian on the energy minister interview on #InsidersABC this morning, Angus Taylor repeated lying that Australia's greenhouse emissions are falling.
Shadow minister for Climate Change and Energy Mark Butler:
'emissions are rising and will continue to rise to 2030 based on the govt's own data projects'.
Rallies across Australia against Adani coal mine in Qld
21 Sep 18 The Age: Rinehart's $2.7 billion court case against Victoria rejected
Its great to hear that The Supreme Court in Melbourne rejected claims by oil and gas company part-owned by mining magnate Gina Rinehart. Go Victoria.
6 Apr15 MW: Rupert Murdoch's US empire siphons $4.5b from Au business tax-free
Talks on 'L' and 'R'. How about win-win = L + less R
1 Oct 2018
9 Sep 2018
Bibbulmun hike in 2005 and Langi Ghiran walk near Arrarat - Victoria in 2011
Karen Middleton (Saturday Paper) on how the government is steering the Murray-Darling basin royal commission towards collapse
Happy Sunday Victoria!
Nice work, Andrews. Don't forget batteries!
17 Aug 2018
Oh, hang on. What did Malcolm Turnbull say in Oct 2009?
'I will not lead a party that is not as committed to effective action on climate change as I am'
Guardian: Regarding NEG, Labor won't support for new coal-fired power
Greens + Labor (in the Senate) push to tighten the protection of fisheries.. defeated 29 votes to 36.
Spot on: how the govt won the motion on 27 March. And Tony Burke Vs Josh Frydenberg. Kim Carr: Labor will continue to ask Qs about the reef money. Labor trusts scientists to save the GBR, while the Liberals prefer their big business mates.
14 Aug 2018
10 Aug 2018 COAG
Victoria Holds Firm On Renewables.
No thing achieved at coag meeting apart from an agreement to keep talking. Frydenberg claims victory and media supports and Murdoch mainstream media keeps repeating.
FYI
Fake news from AFR front page re: NEG will save household $550 per year. Show thread
Based on recent experience living in a small van, I support solar energy storage.
Gu: NZ bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'
Gu: Murray-Darling basin plan likely to be unlawful, leading QC warns
16 September 2017
2 May 2017 Interim Report on water theft
24 July 2017
abc4c: Murray-Darling Basin Plan Water intended for rivers harvested by irrigator
Watch the Four Corners program in full on iView.
Gu: Coal-fired plant shifted $1bn offshore while pocketing $117m from Australian taxpayers
MP for Mining
Mark's News NEM FUTURE FORUM 2017 – FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEG
30 Oct 2017 Qld Votes
Gu: Qld Labor keeps promise on Great Barrier Reef
coal-ship loading ban
27 Oct 2017
27 July 2017
Peter Garrett Trashing our crown jewel: The fate of the GBR in the coal age
Gu: High court proves we have free speech against environmental wreckers
Day of action around Australia
2 Octorber 2017
4C on Adani
Petition needed Vs Govt bullying Victoria & NSW
27 September 2017
Gas talk with big energy companies
23 September 2017
Electricity prices
20 September 2017
Gu: Anti-Adani protest censored by operators of Melbourne's Fed Sqr
19 September 2017
Gu Q&A: panellists spar over coal as energy debate dominates
16 September 2017
ABC: NSW's most senior water bureaucrat resigns over corruptions allegation
13 September 2017
Gu: Infrastructure fund directors under fire again over potential conflicts of interest
12 September 2017
Gas talk with big energy companies
Electricity prices
Gu: Anti-Adani protest censored by operators of Melbourne's Fed Sqr
fr: AGL has daily struggle to keep 'geriatric' Liddell coal plant running
Gu: AGL says keeping Liddell power station open beyond 2022 could cost $900m
Gu: AGL says keeping Liddell power station open beyond 2022 could cost $900m
18 September 2017
ABC: NSW's most senior water bureaucrat resigns over corruptions allegation
Interim Report on water theft
Gu: Infrastructure fund directors under fire again over potential conflicts of interest
12 September 2017
Electricity prices
AGL on Liddell
24 July 2017
abc4c: Murray-Darling Basin Plan Water intended for rivers harvested by irrigator
Watch the Four Corners program in full on iView.
The new fence plan is going ahead. The first install starts today.
Jan 2017
Conversation: Government leans on AGL over Liddell ahead of meeting
9 September 2017
Conversation: AGL rejects Turnbull call to keep operating Liddell coal-fired power station
5 September 2017
Shadow Energy Minister: Turnbull's AGL smackdown
The River Murray
SA senators, Premier, SA Water minister and farmers unite
smh: SA calls for Barbany Joyce to drop board nomination as inquiry began
24 July 2017
abc4c: Murray-Darling Basin Plan Water intended for rivers harvested by irrigator
Watch the Four Corners program in full on iView.
The Age: Big four banks slash lending to coal miners
Gu: Native title win in Pilbara and Northern Territory
13.42 AEST gu: Tesla to build world's biggest lithium ion battery in SA this year
15 June 2017
Finkel Review: A bluffer's guide for those who haven't read it
Who's NAIF Board member and conflict of interest
Karla Way-McPhail, who runs mining labour & equipment hire companies and is on
the NAIF board, who provide recommendations of $900m taxpayer loan to Adani
27 May 2017 GetUp: The $1 billion NAIF loan to Adani not going ahead
Why does The Qld Government refuse to support the deal?
People made thousands calls to voters
People took to the streets
People made true headlines and
People win!
People win!
Jan 2017
5 Dec 2016 gu Adani protest
Frydenberg: carbon price is on the table. 'We know that there's been a large number of bodies that have recommended an emissions intensity scheme... We'll look at that'.
Turnbull: 'I just want to be very, very clear that energy prices are too high already. We will do everything that we can to put downward pressure on energy prices. We will not impose a carbon tax, or an emissions trading scheme – that is our position.'
Frydenberg withdrew his comments on the next day due to backbench forces from Cory Bernardi and cPyne. 'The Turnbull Government is not contemplating such a scheme. We're not advocating for such a scheme'.
Politics v Policy, Advice from experts (2015 catoon) to save $15B off electricity bills
2 December
13 Sep 2016
Omnibus budget savings bill deal: win win for both Government and Labor
20 July 2016 11.39am gu: MT's energy and environment portfolio
22 Dec 2015 gu
17.04 gu Nuclear waste returned to Australia, raising concerns about future dump site
abcNEWS Greenpeace campaigners tracked the nuclear waste ship BBC Shanghai as it made its way into Port Kembla in NSW
30 November 2015
abcRN Breakfast Bill Shorten weighs in on Paris climate conference
Melbourne Rally, one among Climate Change Rallies around the globe
People get together at Victoria's State Library to start a rally reportedly over 50,000 with strong messages: climate change & public health, keep the trees up & our world clean, yes solar/renewables, no coal+mines, leave it in the ground, switch off pollution & on solutions...
People's Climate Rally 27-29 Nov 2015
13 Nov 2015 gu List of six potential sites for storing Australia's nuclear waste released
People's Climate Rally 27-29 Nov 2015
abcNEWS Six sites shortlisted for Australia's first nuclear waste dump; Govt faces battle to convince locals worried over safety
Sallys Flat should be removed from nuclear waste shortlist, residents say
This nuclear power deal, the maddest (gu 21 Oct 2015)
2-3 November 2015 Q&A and guThis nuclear power deal, the maddest (gu 21 Oct 2015)
Mining will turn Australia into a third-word country, says ecologist Paul Ehrlich
Australia could store nuclear waste for other countries, Malcolm Turnbull says
27 October 2015 abc-Lateline
Interview: Dr Alan Finkel, newly-appointed Chief Scientist to provide independent advice to the Government on science and technology.
Solo guest, Bill Shorten on Q&A Monday 21 September 
.. and then spoke of a world without coal and of nuclear energy
on Insiders, Sunday 1 Nov, when Barrie Cassidy interviews Environment Minister Greg Hunt
7 December 2009 The SMH/Politics
Abbott's climate change policy is bullshit (by Malcolm Turnbull)
Monday 14 September 2015 - Liberal leadership spill. Photos: ABC
27 November 2015 7.30ABC/Mark Butler, Opposition Environment Spokenman
11 August 2015 ABC LateLine/emissions target
15 July 2015 ABC LateLine Interview: Greg Combet
29 June 2015 The Conversation
17 Feb 2014 the guardian/media/Martin Farrer
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30 August 2015 6.03PM Financial Review: GST hike to pay for income tax cuts
25 August 2015 18.14 AEST the guardian/GST/Daniel Hurst
23 July 2015 The Age Political News GST rise on cards..
Federal shadow treasurer Chris Bowen criticised the prospect of a bigger GST take
"You
promised on 33 separate occasions before the last election not to
change the GST,
Mr Bowen said in public comments directed at the Prime Minister.
Mr Bowen said in public comments directed at the Prime Minister.
"Today you confirmed that you will continue
your attack on low & middle-income earners by adding to their
cost of living. Add that to a long list of betrayals of the Au
people."
"On economic policy, Mr Shorten set out a clear contrast over tax policy, arguing Labor would require foreign multinationals to pay more tax rather than asking working Australians to pay more GST."
24 July 2015 11.24am The Age/Political News/James Massola
"On economic policy, Mr Shorten set out a clear contrast over tax policy, arguing Labor would require foreign multinationals to pay more tax rather than asking working Australians to pay more GST."
The Buffett rule was introduced to the Labor conference in Melbourne.
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27 November 2015 5.46pm DailyStarAlbany
Bill Gates is investing $2B to renewable energy technologies
22 November 2015 ABC Insiders
Bill Gates is investing $2B to renewable energy technologies
22 November 2015 ABC Insiders
Barrie Cassidy interviews the Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale
9 Oct 2015 1.49pm smh Turnbull govt appoints Aus's first wind farm commissioner
9 Oct 2015 15.09 the guardian- Windfarm commissioner appointed
22 Sep 2015 07.01 Bill Shorten backs windfarms in solo outing on Q&A
Bibbulmun hike in 2005 and Langi Ghiran walk near Arrarat - Victoria in 2011
American cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson joined Q&A panel
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30 Oct 2015 08.30 gu
11 September 2015 17.10 AEST the guardian/Shenhua coalmine-Liverpool plains
Allan Jones' campaign fights against environment law change (R)
10 September 2015 22.00 AEST theguardian/green'lawfare'
Anti-coal seam gas protesters walking along the Sea Cliff Bridge in Oct 2011. Photo: Stop CSG Illawarra
19 August 2015 16.10 AEST the guardian/environmental law
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Why does The Qld Government refuse to support the deal?
We made thousands calls to voters
We took actions on the streets and
We made headlines
18 May 2017 fyi via #auspol
2 February 2016 gu
22 Dec 2015 gu
9 Nov 2015 gu
18 Oct 2015 News from Margo Kingston
16 Oct 7.47am smh: Australia's largest coal mine free to proceed
15 Oct 2015 abcNEWS: Adani gets fed re-approval for Carmichael coal mine
9 Oct 2015 12.05 guardian Aus
17 Sep 2015 smh
18 August 2015 14.21 AEST the guardian/Carmichael coalmine
Anti-mining protesters outside Adani's Brisbane office on 16 Jul. Photo: Jamie Mckinnell/AAP