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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…
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Over 75 percent of Victorians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
MELBOURNE, Aug 6, 2018 – Seventy-seven percent of Victorians want Australia to embrace a high renewable energy target, ramping up the pressure on Premier Daniel Andrews to vote against the Turnbull government’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG).The results, from a Reachtel poll commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, serve as a timely warning to the Victorian leader,…
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More than 70 percent of Australians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
SYDNEY, Aug 6, 2018 – Over two-thirds of Australians want the Federal Government to set a high renewable energy target to put downward pressure on power prices, according to a Reachtel poll commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The result serves as a rebuke to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, who have been…
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Greenpeace response to Coles setting an August deadline for the availability of free plastic bags in their stores
Greenpeace campaigner Zoe Dean welcomes the move by Coles to begin charging customers 15c for their reusable plastic bags from late August after the supermarket giant yesterday declared they would offer free bags indefinitely.”This is a fantastic outcome and shows exactly what we said yesterday – that Coles had put too much stock in the…