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Exit poll points to Liberals losing Coogee, as climate change emerges as the top election issue
SYDNEY, March 23, 2019 – The Liberal Party is on track to lose the eastern suburbs seat of Coogee, with exit polling indicating a strong swing against sitting member Bruce Notley-Smith as at 2.30pm today.Thirty-five percent of voters ranked climate change and environment policy as the number-one issue that determined their vote, ahead of the…
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While the planet burns, the LNP are tearing themselves apart over coal
The Liberals have doubled down on coal, again, to their own electoral peril, writes Holly Dawson. It’s just two weeks until the NSW election and the federal election is just around the corner. Yet news this week that a Hong Kong investment firm has struck a deal with an Australian company to develop two new…
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The mercury is rising – can politicians feel the heat?
Independent polling commissioned by Greenpeace reveals a growing backlash against climate-wrecking politicians ahead of the federal election. Less than a week after Scott Morrison announced a reheated version of Tony Abbott’s failed plan to reduce emissions Australians have not only rejected it – but they’re also saying that global warming and the environment are the…
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It’s 2019 guys. Just rule out new coal power stations
SYDNEY, March 6, 2019: Greenpeace Australia Pacific has today called on the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to make clear that they will prevent development of two new coal-fired power stations in the Hunter Valley, NSW. News that a Hong Kong based investment firm has signed a deal with a tiny…
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POLL: Global warming, Liberal’s plan for emissions unpopular
Greenpeace has commissioned independent polling that confirms climate change number one issue on voters minds
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Morrison’s reheated version of Abbott’s plan not good enough as global warming now the number one issue for voters
SYDNEY, March 3, 2019 – Global warming and the environment is now the number one issue for Australians with one in four saying it was the most influential issue when deciding their vote.A uComms/ReachTel national poll of 2134 respondents, commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific and released today showed the issue had overtaken the economy, and…
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The NSW election looms: who’s winning the race?
In less than a month New South Wales voters go to the polls and at least one party is betting on a vote for clean energy to get them over the line. Yesterday Opposition Leader Michael Daley announced that an incoming Labor government will power all State Government agencies with 100 percent renewable energy by…
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Labor’s plan to power government entirely with renewables to take New South Wales from energy Dark Ages towards the light
SYDNEY, Fed 28, 2019 – The Labor Party’s plan to turbocharge New South Wales’ transition from coal to clean energy will reduce electricity bills and help to reduce the carbon pollution that causes climate change.This morning Opposition Leader Michael Daley announced that an incoming Labor government will power all State Government agencies with 100 percent…
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As fires and floods rage the Liberal party’s climate fig-leaf proves Abbott and the coal huggers still in charge
February 25, 2019: Today’s funding announcement by the Federal Coalition is woefully inadequate to address climate change and proves that the climate denying coal huggers like Tony Abbott are still in charge of energy policy.Prime Minister Scott Morrison will today announce the amount of funding the government will set aside for climate initiatives over the…
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NSW voters call out Gladys Berejiklian’s poor record on climate and demand action
SYDNEY, Feb 19, 2019 – “The climate has changed. When will the Liberal Party?” is the blunt message that NSW voters have sent to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, in a full-page ad in the Sydney Morning Herald.The advertisement features an open letter to the Premier against the backdrop of a raging fire. At the bottom…