A Melbourne teenager is taking on Australia's biggest climate polluter
Monday, 16 August 2021
This morning a Melbourne teenager has announced that he is running for the board of AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, in a bid to push the energy giant to replace its coal burning power stations with renewables by 2030.
Offshore gas drilling is threatening on of the country’s most beloved coastlines, the Great Ocean Road, with the Victorian Government allowing gas to be extracted from under Port Campbell National Park, near the Twelve Apostles.
And a family of silver head antechinuses, one of the country’s most endangered mammals, have been found in burned forest in Queensland. In a time when good news seems almost as rare as the antechinus, that’s a cause for celebration.
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Rare mammal tracked down in Queensland forest
21 Silver headed antechinus were found alive and still breeding in burnt forest south of Gladstone