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Scott Morrison has taken a very small step towards endorsing a target of net zero emissions by 2050.
If history is any guide, the new US president’s forward-thinking approach toward refugee resettlement could help drive Australia’s commitments to refugee protection, too.
Women’s leadership reached new heights this year, just as the Coalition’s gendered policy response to the pandemic set women back across the board.
The Morrison government has through great skill and some luck helped avoid Austrlaia a COVID catastrophe.
The federal government’s industrial relations bill will fix a problem that doesn’t exist by making a failed legal argument the law.
The Morrison Government has picked up its weapons again, with an industrial relations bill that will tip the scales further against employees.
Independent MP Helen Haines’s bill will likely not pass without the government’s support, but it proposes a robust body with suitable accountability mechanisms. It’s worth serious consideration.
In February Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg called the idea of a well-being budget ‘laughable’. It’s time he took it seriously.
Despite its big sticker price, the 2020 federal budget just isn’t that stimulating.
Borrowing to reduce unemployment and increase growth will pay for itself.
Only one in four members of the Morrison government are women, so it’s little wonder their ideas for COVID recovery has all been “men first”.
The Morrison government will make sweeping changes to the insolvency system to improve the chances of saving small businesses hit by the pandemic.
The news Foxtel received a speedy funding boost as the ABC faces another round of damaging cost cuts will raise eyebrows. And questions about how we spend taxpayers’ money.
Energy Minister Angus Taylor is this week expected to release the government’s first Low Emissions Technology Statement. It’s likely to include ways to remove CO₂ from the air – but do they work?
We cannot rely on technology development alone to deeply cut Australia’s emissions. Other policies and more money will be needed.
The government has chosen a route not backed by evidence, and which will deliver a bad deal to taxpayers and the environment.
The Trump presidency has been a godsend for an Australian government apparently uninterested in significant climate action. But with Trump well behind in the polls, that’s set to change.
The Morrison government has seized on environment law reform proposed on Monday. I was a federal environment official for 13 years – and I know these things cannot be rushed.
The federal government today announced $1 billion plan to divert more than ten million tonnes of waste from landfill. But waste management is about more than just recycling.
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