Socialist Alliance launched its Victorian election campaign for four lower house seats across the region. SA’s campaign slogan is “Fighting for People, NOT the Billionaires”. Tim Gooden reports.
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Redistributing the wealth and making mining sustainable requires transitioning to a democratic and publicly run industry. Sam Wainwright argues this is not Pauline Hanson’s vision for the mining industry. Hers is about enabling billionaire owners more ability to profiteer.
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Dick Nichols reports on the Seventh International Ecosocialist Gathering, which took place in Brussels.
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The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, involving government representatives from 59 countries, was in Santa Marta, Colombia, reports Ben Radford.
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Labor conspicuously omitted plans to avert the climate emergency in its budget, however renewable energy projects are advancing nonetheless. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Extinction Rebellion SA organised a series of creative protests outside the Australian Energy Producers conference to protest the push for more fossil fuels in a climate emergency. Markela Panegyres reports.
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The Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group defended a NSW Court of Appeal ruling in the High Court that the climate change impacts of fossil fuel projects have to be taken into account. Kerry Smith reports.
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Recent reports suggest that the Western Australian Labor government is planning on pushing ahead with its net-zero plan but without emission reductions targets. Maz Misiewicz reports.
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Labor is boasting that its latest budget delivers the most significant transformation of the tax system in a quarter century. But, as Peter Boyle argues, this is more spin than reality.
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Climate campaigners say NSW Labor’s decision to open the state’s west to gas exploration companies will harm the environment and make the transition to benign energy more difficult. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Marxist economist Michael Roberts recently spoke to ecosocialist Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus about his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.
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The call for a tax on gas corporations’ exports is growing louder by the day. Despite 80% of gas production being sent offshore, the government receives almost no return. Cas Smith reports.