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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • October 28, 2021 • smh.com.au
PM’s net zero plan driven by slogans and seats, not conversion or conviction
Morrison has artfully switched the debate from the environment to the economy, branding his “plan” as the uniquely “Australian Way”.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
Niki Savva: "Yet here they are in a fragile coalition crumbling internally, under pressure externally, studiously avoiding appearing together, advocating for a target neither really, truly believes in to be reached by recycled amorphous somethings" smh.com.au/national/pm-s-…
October 28, 2021
The Guardian • Graham Readfearn, Jake Morcom, Joe Koning, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Adam Morton • October 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia v the climate part 1: Kyoto
This is the story of how Australia’s behaviour across decades has made it a climate change outcast. In the first episode we hear how Australia managed to increase its emissions under a climate deal that was supposed to cut them
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The Guardian • Paul Karp • October 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
Voters will be asked to show identification to vote under Morrison government proposal
Labor spokesperson says party will fiercely oppose any ‘anti-democratic thought bubbles’ in the bill
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The Guardian • Adam Morton, Peter Hannam • October 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia’s 2050 net zero emissions plan relies on ‘gross manipulation’ of data, experts say
Estimates for carbon dioxide storage in trees and soil go far beyond upper bounds of what peer-reviewed science suggests is possible
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Adam Morton@adamlmorton
Australia’s 2050 net zero plan relies on trees + soil absorbing CO2 to offset fossil fuels at a scale that's not physically possible, experts say
+ the govt has released its climate resilience + adaptation strategy ahead of #COP26Glasgow
- w @p_hannam
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October 30, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Ross Gittins • October 25, 2021 • smh.com.au
Morrison’s tricky deal: Nationals rewarded for agreeing to harm the regions
The perverse nature of the Prime Minister’s deal with the Nationals has been highlighted in a new study that found the cost of not acting sooner on climate change will be worn most heavily by the regions.
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The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • October 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
We’ve spent a year waiting for this 2050 plan and it’s actually just the status quo with some new speculative graphs
To change course radically, the Coalition would have to admit that for a decade it traded the national interest for a handful of regional Queensland seats
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • October 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia commits to 2050 net zero emissions plan but with no detail and no modelling
Prime minister Scott Morrison says ‘technology breakthroughs’ will help country meet reductions targets but Labor calls plan a ‘scam’
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The Guardian • Tory Shepherd • October 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
UK’s top climate adviser launches scathing attack on Australia on eve of Cop26
Lord Deben says there is ‘no indication’ Scott Morrison has a plan to deliver the net zero commitment ‘we’ve squeezed out of him’
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The Age • Sumeyya Ilanbey, Ashleigh McMillan • October 31, 2021 • theage.com.au
Move to oust Liberal Tim Smith from electorate after drink-driving crash
Victoria Police say emergency services were called to reports a car had collided with another vehicle on Power Street, Hawthorn, before crashing into a fence just before 9pm on Saturday.
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The Guardian • Graham Readfearn, Jake Morcom, Joe Koning, Miles Herbert, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson, Adam Morton • October 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
Australia v the climate part 2: Copenhagen
Part two explores how the world blew a chance to agree on climate change action at the moment Australia had decided to act
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • October 30, 2021 • theguardian.com
Gladys Berejiklian’s Icac performance has horrified federal Liberals – but only for exposing ‘normal’ political practice | Hugh Riminton
The former NSW premier’s plight has only reinforced federal distaste for a properly functioning national integrity commission
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Hugh Riminton@hughriminton
#Gladys #Berejiklian , #ICAC and the casual corruption of our times. My piece for the ⁦@GuardianAus⁩ 👇 theguardian.com/australia-news…
October 30, 2021
news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • October 26, 2021 • news.com.au
MP’s text blow-up over bizarre video
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was confronted on the floor of parliament by a “furious” Michael McCormack on Tuesday after his private WhatsApp group messages were leaked to the media.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Exclusive: Nationals at war in leaked WhatsApp messages over ‘Terminator’ @mattjcan shooting a “cop” in spoof climate change video @newscomauHQ news.com.au/technology/env…
October 26, 2021
The Age • Miki Perkins • October 26, 2021 • smh.com.au
Torres Strait leaders sue federal government over climate change
Traditional owners from two low-lying islands in the Torres Strait fear they will become Australia’s first climate change refugees because of the government’s failure to reduce emissions.
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • October 26, 2021 • theguardian.com
NSW environmental offsets to be reformed after ‘appalling practices’ revealed, minister says
State environment minister, Matt Kean, has launched internal review after Guardian investigation revealed major problems with offsets schemes
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Australian Financial Review • John Kehoe, Jacob Greber • October 28, 2021 • afr.com
Cormann pushes Morrison government to adopt carbon price
New OECD data shows Australia lagging wealthy economies in pricing emissions, as OECD boss Mathias Cormann pushes the Morrison government and other nations to adopt stricter carbon pricing.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • October 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
Secret Liberal group pushed for net zero to halt the Nationals
Worried about the Nationals’ views on climate change, a group of Liberal MPs mobilised to make it clear they would not accept a climate plan without a zero emissions target.
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The Guardian • Daniel Hurst • October 25, 2021 • theguardian.com
Under the radar: the Australian intelligence chief in the shadows of the Aukus deal
Andrew Shearer’s unreported meeting in April with Joe Biden’s top Indo-Pacific adviser may have been the clincher for the Aukus security agreement
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • October 28, 2021 • theguardian.com
‘Turned away’: how strict government rules denied young pilot with brain cancer the disability pension
Doctors say George Upjohn cannot work due to his brain tumour, yet Centrelink rejected his disability support pension application
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Australian Financial Review • October 29, 2021 • afr.com
The Financial Review is hiring
The Australian Financial Review’s newsroom is expanding to support our rapidly growing subscriber base.
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Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy
The Financial Review is adding 18 new journalist positions as part of a major expansion afr.com/companies/medi…
October 29, 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald • Andrew Charlton • October 29, 2021 • smh.com.au
I hate to say it, but Barnaby has a point on climate
Imagine if a comprehensive climate support package for the regions had been offered in 2007 to then deputy Nationals leader Joyce rather than extracted by five-minutes-to-midnight brinkmanship by the now Deputy Prime Minister Joyce.
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