New Zealand once stood out as a world leader on climate change. In June it became the first country in the world to abandon a commitment to phase out oil, gas and coal.
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How Australia’s CANDU Conservatives Fell in Love with Canadian Nuclear
Ontario, Canada is the only place in the world to tear out wind turbines and embrace nuclear power. Australia’s conservatives have been taking notes.
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The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive
Brian Fisher, an economist employed for decades by the Australian government, was essential to obstructing not just climate policy in Australia but global climate action.
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Contention article “The Criminalization of Climate Change Protest”
Journal article on the the strategies used by a democratic state to suppress dissent by criminalizing social protest activities, focused on Australia from 2019-2021. Written by Robyn E. Gulliver, Robin Banks, Kelly S. Fielding, and Winnifred R. Louis.
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As Australia Heads to the Polls, a Look at Greenwashing & CSS
Australia’s “gas-fired” pandemic recovery, enabled by CCS and “clean” hydrogen
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Greenpeace Report “Global Warning: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia”
Greenpeace report on mounting threats to activism—particularly climate activists—in Australia.
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Agenda for 2019 Public Hearing on Queensland anti-protest law
Agenda for Queensland Parliament Legal Affairs and Public Safety Committee public hearing on the 2019 Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill.
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2019 Human Rights Commission Comment on Queensland anti-protest bill
Human Rights Commission response to the proposed Queensland Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019. They note that there is “a real risk that the provisions may be unconstitutional as an impermissible burden on the implied freedom of political communication.”
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Queensland Resources Council submission on law restricting protest
In 2010, Indian conglomerate Adani purchased tenements over a giant and untapped coal basin in the west of