By David Holmes, Monash University
The future of Australia’s climate and respect for environmental science stand to be the biggest losers in all of the forms of class-mobilised politicisation that are impacting Australia currently. Somewhere between the vocation of politics and the vocation of science, Australia has lost its way – to the point where.
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Here, Graham Readfearn reports back on interviews with climate scientists who reveal their bugbears about policy decisions, the media and climate sceptics.
“Don’t shoot the messenger,” so the saying goes. But what if that message warns we might want to rethink that whole fossil fuel burning thing pretty quick because it could seriously alter.
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By Adam Bumpus, University of Melbourne
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The bill to repeal Australia’s “carbon tax” is poised to pass the Senate, potentially leaving Australia without a working price on carbon. In the short term, the.
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The bill to repeal Australia’s “carbon tax” is poised to pass the Senate, potentially leaving Australia without a working price on carbon. In the short term, the.
10 July 2014: Sydney and Melbourne are both addressing climate change threats, the new CDP Cities Report finds. The real and current threat of climate change is driving local governments to take concrete action, so finds Protecting.
By Ian Lowe, Griffith University
In the lead-up to the budget, the story of crisis has been hammered home, but there’s more to a country than its structural deficit. So how is Australia doing overall? In this special series, ten writers to take a broader look at the State of Australia; our health, wealth, education,.
By Wendy Miller, Queensland University of Technology
During Queensland’s preparations for Severe Tropical Cyclone Ita, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman advised residents who lived in older houses (those built before 1985) to evacuate their homes as they were not likely to stand up to the storm’s destructive winds.
In the event, the damage was largely.
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By John Cole, University of Southern Queensland
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We are in the coal business. If you want decent hospitals, schools and police on the beat we all need to understand that. – Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, June 2012.It was a rare moment of unscripted truth in Australian politics, which summed up decades of national policy. The.
22 November 2013: A new report considers the contribution that Australia’s corporate sector is making towards the achievement of the nation’s greenhouse emission reduction targets for 2020 and beyond. Companies have a significant influence on Australia’s ability to meet our reduction targets as they are responsible for around three-quarters of our carbon emissions. While Australia.
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20 November 2013, COP 19: Weak government action on climate change will lead to a projected 3.7 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100, around 0.6 degree C higher than the original promises they made in Copenhagen, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) has said..
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20 November 2013, COP 19: Weak government action on climate change will lead to a projected 3.7 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100, around 0.6 degree C higher than the original promises they made in Copenhagen, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) has said..
A new national initiative, is calling for 20 per cent more green space in urban centres by 2020. The project, 202020 Vision has been launched on 7 Nov 2013, on the same day as a newly released report showing concerns that our urban green spaces are under threat.
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