It’s Tuesday, and we still don’t have a net-zero target. We do, however, have details of the PM’s “net zero plan”, courtesy of The Australian, and it includes a projected increase in gas exports. A net-zero plan that involves extracting and exporting even more dangerous, climate-destroying fossil...

The National Party, behaving more like a lobby group than a party of government, has set its terms for a net-zero target - no stronger 2030 emissions reduction target and for coal to continue into the 2050s. Any net-zero target set with these conditions would have exactly zero effect in tackling...

Thousands of students around the world, including in Australia, are taking the day off school to demand better climate policies from our leaders. The student-run initiative School Strike 4 Climate is holding more than 35 in-person and online events across regional areas and capital cities in...

State government emissions reductions commitments have put Australia within reach of meeting global expectations, but new analysis reveals it will fall short unless the Morrison government steps up. Speaking of state commitments, Tasmania has announced it will mandate a target for net zero...

Seventy-five percent of Australians are concerned about the threat of climate change and almost seven in ten want the Morrison Government to commit to achieving net zero emissions, according to The Australia Institute’s latest annual survey of voter sentiment on climate. 

As PM Scott Morrison continues to dither on net zero, beset by his troublesome junior partners in the Coalition, new polling shows almost 70% of Australians want the government to set a higher 2030 emissions reduction target.They’re joined by none other than Prince Charles, who has issued a stern...

Prince Charles has lended his voice to the growing chorus calling on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to attend the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in a few weeks’ time. The Prince appeared taken aback when told that Morrison said he was unlikely to attend COP because he had already spent a...

As Australia inches forward towards a net-zero emissions target, the news is awash with statements from everyone from the Business Council of Australia through to News Corp lining up behind net-zero by 2050.

A thought bubble by the Nats that would have taxpayers pouring $250 billion into the fossil fuel industry has been met with derision, including from within the Coalition, which called the proposal “completely crazy”.

As the Morrison Government has a messy public spat over whether to commit to net zero emissions by 2050, Australia’s Pacific neighbours have called for the government to at least halve emissions this decade to help prevent further climate chaos across the region.