Climate Change

Asked when his Government would announce a 2035 target, Albanese replied: “Sometime next year.” 
Opinion
Andrew Carswell

Voters won’t get a say on climate. But they’ll pay the price

ANDREW CARSWELL: Do Australians want to address climate change? Yes, of course. Duh! Do they want to pay for it? Pass the peanuts. Now they actually know they’re paying for it. They feel it. 

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Extreme weather events are pushing up insurance costs beyond what some households can afford.
Politics
Poppy Johnston

Aussies giving up key protections in cost-of-living crunch

More than two-thirds of parents are worried about rising insurance costs pushed higher by climate change.

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Tanya Plibersek and how The Nightly covered the Nature Positive legislation.
Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Green agenda on brink of collapse as Federal election nears

Labor’s hopes of delivering its green agenda are fading as it grapples with a legislative backlog months out from the next Federal election.

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Britain has urged Australia to have ‘greater ambition’ as it weighs up its next steps on climate policy, as experts warn the Trump presidency will make that even more crucial.
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Climate Change
Ellen Ransley

Australia urged to show climate leadership by UK, experts

Britain has urged Australia to have ‘greater ambition’ as it weighs up its next steps on climate policy, as experts warn the Trump presidency will make that even more crucial.

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Tanya Plibersek insists environment talks are ongoing with the Greens and the Coalition despite the Opposition saying there has been “stunning silence”.
Australia
Katina Curtis

‘Silence’: Plibersek insists environment talks still ongoing

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek insists she is still in talks over the Government’s planned environmental watchdog despite the Opposition warning there has been ‘stunning silence’ on the legislation.

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BoM has warned Australians to brace for the upcoming ‘severe weather season’ and prepare their homes, properties, and emergency plans.
Australia
Hayley Taylor

Cyclones, thunderstorms and heatwaves: ‘Severe’ weather warning issued for Australia

Australia could be staring down some of the most severe weather in history in the coming months.

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Environment Minister will tout her Government’s Natura Positive laws at a summit despite them stalling in Canberra.
Australia
Ellen Ransley and Dan Jervis-Bardy

Plibersek in nature positive push as laws stall in Canberra

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will use this week’s global green summit to tout the Government’s ‘really good progress’ in turning Australia nature positive, as Labor’s green agenda remains in doubt.

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and opposition spokesman Jonathon Duniam.
Climate Change
Ellen Ransley and Dan Jervis-Bardy

Labor touts nature positive talkfest despite failing agenda

Tanya Plibersek will use this week’s global green summit to tout the Government’s ‘really good progress’ in turning Australia nature positive — despite Labor’s environmental agenda teetering on the brink.

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Anthony Albanese was forced to defend Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek (pictured) over the Government’s controversial Nature Positive law negotiations.
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Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Ellen Ransley

Stalemate could torpedo centrepiece of Nature Positive plan

Greens leader Adam Bandt won’t relent on a ‘climate trigger’ as Labor scrambles to salvage the Nature Positive Plan and Anthony Albanese denies he made a captain’s call on the controversial laws.

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Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has dropped demands for a ‘climate trigger’ in negotiations with the Albanese Government on the proposed Nature Positive laws.
Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Greens drop ‘climate trigger’ demand in Nature Positive laws

The Greens and independents are offering an alternative path for Labor to pass laws to create its Environmental Protection Agency.

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Forecast temperature and wind at 4pm AEST on Friday, August 30.
Health
Georgina Noack

Millions of Aussies to be hit by ‘scorching end to winter’

The Bureau of Meteorology warned we were in for a ‘scorching end to winter’ even before monthly heat records toppled at the weekend. And it’s not stopping anytime soon.

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But the end of Earth’s streak of excessively hot temperatures does not diminish the mounting threat of climate change.
Society
Christopher Merchant

Earth’s record heat streak has ended, so what now?

Global warming has consistently toppled records for warm global average temperatures in recent decades, until now. But the end of this streak does not diminish the mounting threat of climate change.

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The world’s largest iceberg, named A23a, near Antarctica in April 2024.
World
The New York Times

Why is the world’s largest iceberg spinning in the ocean?

Five times the size of New York City’s land area and more than 300 meters deep, the mammoth piece of ice finally became loose in 2020, and now it is ‘spinning around’.

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Australia’s climate lobby groups have gone nuclear, and not in a good way, writes Andrew Carswell.
Political
Andrew Carswell

Bullies become bullied as climate lobby groups get banned

ANDREW CARSWELL: For the second time in a few weeks, the Australian Conservation Foundation’s X account was suspended for breaching the rules that determine what is factual. Their reaction has been hysterical.

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AMEC's Warren Pearce, CME's Rebecca Tomkinson and CCIWA's Aaron Morey outside Parliament House ahead of the hearing.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Business groups slam Nature Positive laws in fiery hearing

Australia’s businesses are increasingly united against Federal Labor’s radical environmental law reforms, with one lobby group boss stating job opportunities will be whittled down to taxis and cafes.

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