Unions NSW launched its Pilliga Campaign Report at NSW Parliament with Gomeroi leaders and climate activists. Pip Hinman and Marie Flood report.
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Australia and Türkiye, neither of which takes climate action seriously, are vying to host the COP31 in 2026 — an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than resolving to limit them, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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Lock the Gate Alliance, along with 130 community groups, is calling on MPs to reject Labor’s changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, describing it as a “betrayal”. Kerry Smith reports.
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Rising Tide, the People’s Blockade of the world’s largest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle, is now one of the most iconic climate uprisings in the world. Darren Saffin writes this one will be the biggest yet.
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Mainstream commentary on net zero emissions ignores the science and buys into the Coalition’s political conundrum about how it comes back from the brink. Alex Bainbridge argues that Labor needs to do more.
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Western Australian-based mining corporation Energy Transition Minerals lost its bid to overrule a 2023 decision by the Greenland government to reject its application to mine uranium and rare earths, reports Peter Boyle.
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In a follow-up interview with Indonesia’s youth activists, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg spoke to Ramzy and Romadon, from Salatiga in Central Java, about what sparked them to become activists and the political developments occurring at a local and regional level.
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Hundreds of activists from across Western Australia greeted Labor’s conference delegates with concerns over fracking, the AUKUS submarine deal and the refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Riley Breen reports.
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Labor can be pushed to intervene and repower Tomago if enough unionists and community organisations demand it, argues Zane Alcorn. The dying coal industry will not simply say goodbye.
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The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, set to be launched at COP30, is designed to guarantee profits for corporations and governments in the Global North by deepening debt and financial dependency in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.
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Binoy Kampmark looks behind United States President Donald Trump’s controversial announcement on resuming nuclear testing, including the internal push for the US to modernise its nuclear arsenal.
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Carbon capture and storage has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system, but as John Quiggin argues, the statistics say otherwise.