The Greens are set to announce a $7.8 billion property disaster resilience plan that offers homeowners up to $20,000 in matching grants to raise or flood-proof their houses, as survivors of the recent east coast flooding disaster still await their assistance grants. 

While the nation’s attention turns with laser focus to the election, elsewhere in the country another head of hot air is gathering at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) conference, the annual gathering of Australia’s gas and oil industry.Amidst the swirling gas...

Just one more week to go for an election campaign that feels like it’s been running for an eternity. Today sees the Greens lay out their policy priorities and Fairfax’s editorial team back Labor on climate.The other looming big vote, the AGL demerger, continues its colourful press run, with an...

Labor will today announce an additional $194 million over four years to protect the Great Barrier Reef, with the funding to include reducing plastic pollution and installing real time sensors to study changes in temperature. But the party’s emissions reduction target of 43 per cent by 2030 fails to...

PM Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese faced off in the third and final leaders’ debate last night, with Morrison’s lack of climate action laid bare when pressed on the issue, he claimed his government is “reducing emissions over a long period of time”. 

More than 90 percent of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef this year have been impacted by bleaching, a new report reveals. 

Scientists have warned that the probability of one of the next five years surpassing the 1.5 degrees limit is now 50 per cent.

AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, faces heat over its controversial demerger plans, described as a ‘turd rolled in glitter’. The demerger documents show that if the company splits, both the retail and generation arms will breach Paris climate targets.

The Morrison government’s climate change commitments are consistent with more than 3C of global heating, bordering on 4C, which would lead to catastrophic global damage. With Labor’s targets in line with 2C of heating, both major parties’ targets ignore the proven risk of irreversible climate...

Australia’s $4.5 billion Emissions Reduction Fund has failed to cut pollution, is wasting billions of dollars worth of public money, and is even facilitating increased emissions, according to a new report from The Australia Institute.