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Miners were among the first workers to organise into trade unions from the middle of the 1700s, battling a lack of legal recognition and resistance from the mine owners.
Britain lucked out with its coal deposits – but other nations have developed without coal.
Despite its insidious influence on the climate and our health, coal has a lesser-known positive side to its otherwise dark soul. It has provided us with some stunning fossils.
Was Trade Minister Steven Ciobo right to say on Q&A that global demand for coal is still going through the roof?
There’s a wealth of climate policies to choose from this election – but what will they do electricity prices?
Closure of the state’s last coal power station will leave a potential gap in the electricity supply.
As coal energy loses market share, major U.S. coal companies are filing for bankruptcy. One multi-billion-dollar question: will taxpayers be forced to pay for cleaning up abandoned mines?
We have the technology to phase out fossil fuels, but it will take more than that.
Coal seam gas may not be responsible for a flaming river in Queensland, but it still raises uncomfortable questions.
Phasing out fossils fuels would go a long way to stopping dangerous climate change – but it might be harder than we thought.
Labor’s detailed climate policy is ambitious, but it remains to be seen if it will capture the voters.
Over the past year Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions from electricity rose 2.7%.
We hear a lot about how essential coal and other mineral exports are for Australia. Is it true? Only for a relatively small section of the population.
Peabody, the world’s largest private coal company, has filed for bankruptcy, symbolising the world’s swing away from coal.
It’s a transition the rest of the world is watching: How can we know whether coal use in China – the world’s largest emitter – is going up or down?
The granting of a mining lease to the Carmichael coal project, despite the huge potential greenhouse emissions, shows that ministers need to consider the wider consequences of their approvals.
South Africans living in communities along the country’s east coast are engaged in intensive protests against mining companies, despite rising danger.
Longannet, the last coal-fired power plant in Scotland, has closed. It might be good news for climate change, but it also signals major problems ahead.
Australia needs to move beyond mining graphite and invest in processes that convert it into synthetic diamonds and use it to create carbon fibres.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Research fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
