Communities forced to fend for themselves when the Prime Minister and the federal government went MIA claim the flooding emergency in the New South Wales Northern Rivers has exposed an over-reliance on volunteers that needs to be urgently addressed.

In the wake of the alarming findings for the Great Barrier Reef contained in the latest IPCC report, Whitsundays dive operator Tony Fontes warns that the Morrison government is a world leader in climate failure and despite pledging one billion dollars to the Reef, that money is about as useless as...

When it comes to the transition from coal and gas to clean energy, the Morrison Government has shown its priority is protecting the big polluters in the fossil fuel industry from market forces rather than protecting Australians from the impacts of climate change. 

The media continues to churn out reams of copy on tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ bid to buy Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, and replace its ageing and increasingly unreliable coal fleet with clean energy.

In the week’s saddest news, koalas have been officially listed as an endangered species in NSW and Queensland. The need for a recovery plan for the beloved marsupial was identified nine years ago, as the Coalition government came to power, but none was put in place.AGL, Australia’s biggest climate...

With leaked texts dripping all over the Press Gallery, we’re deep in election season. While Morrison fights for political survival, the Greens have set out their climate terms for backing Labor in the case of a hung parliament, including a moratorium on new coal, oil and gas projects. With the...

The week opens with new polling data showing the Morrison Government is facing an ‘electoral wipeout’. Expect a flurry of sudden announcements in coming weeks in line with Friday’s $1bn drop on funding for the Great Barrier Reef, which aims to improve ‘water quality’ but neglects to deal with the...

The Morrison Government is pledging $1 billion for Great Barrier Reef conservation projects over the next decade, just days before Australia is due to send a report to Unesco about the state of the Reef and its plans to protect it. 

A 55 per cent cut in emissions by 2035 across the economy to ensure the country can meet its net-zero target by the middle of the century, has been recommended by The Australian Energy Council, which represents the country’s biggest power and clean energy companies including AGL Energy, Alinta and...

Coal is set to be snuffed out from Australia’s electricity system up to a decade earlier than planned under a radical blueprint for the power grid laid out by the The Australian Energy Market Operator, which runs the national electricity network.