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Embattled Turnbull completes capitulation to the coal huggers by abandoning climate element of NEG
SYDNEY, Aug 20, 2018 – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again bowed to the extremists in the Coalition and removed the emissions reduction component of the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), retreating from the fight against climate change in a desperate bid to save his leadership.This morning, the PM held a news conference at which he…
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Greenpeace congratulates Andrews government plan to save 650,000 Victorian households $890 a year with solar rooftops
SYDNEY, Aug 19, 2018: The Victorian Premier’s plan to subsidise the installation of hundreds of thousands of solar panels on the state’s roofs is an act of climate leadership, and an example of the type of hands-on renewable energy policy that will drive down power prices, in contrast to the Coalition’s do-nothing National Energy Guarantee…
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Turnbull leadership on life support as he tries to appease the coal huggers and makes the do-nothing NEG an environmental ticking time-bomb
SYDNEY, Aug 17, 2018 – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is bungling his way to political oblivion by seeking to appease the coal huggers in the Coalition by making the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) even more destructive than it already is.This evening, the under siege PM tried to quell a group of rebel MPs signalling their…
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Labor must reject NEG as weak PM loses control of the Coalition over do-nothing climate policy
SYDNEY, Aug 17, 2018 – With members of the Coalition in open rebellion, talks of ministerial resignations, a leadership coup and the Energy Security Board flagging more last minute changes to the NEG, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull must abandon this dodgy deal.Yesterday, Queensland MP George Christensen said he could only support the NEG with a…
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No deal! Victoria to go over NEG bill with fine-tooth comb to see what Turnbull has given up to the Coalition’s climate sceptics
SYDNEY, Aug 15, 2018 – Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said she will thoroughly examine the proposed state bill to legislate the NEG mechanism with a fine tooth comb to see what concessions Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made to win the begrudging support of the climate sceptics and denialists in the Coalition.Last night, following…
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Great Barrier Reef lotto win that’s morally bankrupt
IT’S a fact that almost 70 per cent of lotto winners end up flat broke within a few years. They don’t know how to spend all that money, lack perspective, and spend irresponsibly. This piece was originally published on The Courier-Mail. It makes you wonder what the Government was thinking when it decided to ignore…
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States tell Turnbull to get his own house in order before seeking NEG sign-off
SYDNEY, Aug 10, 2018 – Josh Frydenberg’s refusal to budge on the terms for his renewables-wrecking National Energy Guarantee (NEG) has seen the governments of Victoria, Queensland and the ACT reject the scheme in its current form.The Labor states, led by Victoria, stuck to their red lines in today’s COAG meeting, including the moderate demand…
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Victoria’s NEG red lines a positive step but emissions target still too low for families struggling with big power bills
SYDNEY, Aug 8, 2018 – Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ conditions to support the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) are a step in the right direction but fail to address the scheme’s fundamental flaw of low targets.Victoria should only support a policy that is at least as ambitious as the state’s own legislated renewable energy target, which…
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Pressure on Coalition to rise to states’ challenge to lift do-nothing NEG target
SYDNEY, Aug 7, 2018 – The Victorian and Queensland governments must continue to listen to the Australian people, and push for the ambitious emissions reduction targets the country needs if it is to bring down power prices and reduce pollution from dirty coal power.The ACT, Queensland and Victoria have called on Prime Minister Turnbull to…