Bowen’s climate of secrecy is red hot and totally wrong
Senate officials have rejected Climate Minister’s secrecy claims over withheld briefing documents as pressure mounts for transparency on Australia’s net-zero challenges.
Senate officials have rejected Climate Minister’s secrecy claims over withheld briefing documents as pressure mounts for transparency on Australia’s net-zero challenges.
New research showing Australia’s 2030 climate targets could cost up to $22.3bn monthly as party divisions deepen.
In a message to constituents, the Coalition’s communications spokeswoman Melissa McIntosh says net zero is “destroying people’s living standards” and “hurting families”.
It cost Atlassian shareholders about $5.7m last year to fly climate evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes around the world on his own private aircraft. Poor bugger is even losing money on the deal.
One of Australia’s largest cattle producers and landowners, Gina Rinehart, has made the opening of a new accommodation facility at Marcus Oldham College in Geelong possible.
The Crisafulli Government is a step closer to delivering Queensland’s first new gas-fired power station in more than a decade with an agreement signed to provide locally produced gas to the facility.
Chris Bowen’s $1bn plan to kickstart an “Australian Made” solar panel industry is flailing, with the opposition describing the initiative as a “sad joke”
Fortescue will be a big customer for zero-emissions mining equipment from China, having learnt the lesson that developed nations cannot compete with China on manufacturing.
German energy giant RWE has scrapped plans to develop a major offshore wind farm in Victoria, delivering a fresh setback to the state’s already fragile energy transition.
Green energy company Fortescue is expected to lay off hundreds of workers in the UK and Australia as it downsizes the company.
Credlin notes business claim that heavy industry would be driven offshore due to the energy disaster, but more subsidies would be given up to cover up the extent of the disaster. She notes the NSW Government Commissioned multiple reports about the impact of coal-fired power station closures on prices and the impact of the power market on heavy industry closures, but is refusing to release them publicly.
After lodging my submission, as punishment for being on the wagon, I read the other 168 submissions to the Orwellian-sounding Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. This is a stitch-up by Labor’s Ministry of Truth, together with the Greens and an independent. It will silence Australians by bullying, corruption, banning of criticism, restricting free speech and promoting legal and financial tactics to protect people from what the Ministry deems ‘wrong’ information.
