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Showing posts with label Tony Abbott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Abbott. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2015

#SeaLevelRise comment engulfs Dutton, Abbott in Pacific #climate storm

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Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has made a joke of Pacific Nations facing rising sea levels due to climate change. The Au...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Renewables firmly favoured by Australian Public says poll

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It should come as no surprise that the Australian public enormously favours development of renewables. This is seen not only in public opi...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Jellyfish and #climate change: Abbott's CSIRO budget cuts halt Queensland marine stinger forecasting research

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Jellyfish, jellyfish. I hope you love jellyfish! We are creating just the right conditions in our oceans for more jellyfish, including the ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Climate Change not on Abbott’s South Australian #bushfire agenda but should be

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Photo: Adelaide bushfires, as seen from the airport. Copyright: eosdude/Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) This article originally appeared at Nofibs....
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

For Cooking the Planet with Tony Abbott, just add mysogyny

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Abbott labels Carbon Tax abolition as greatest achievement as Minister for Women What a world we live in where we face major impacts on h...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Climate, Environment Boards and Foreign Aid slashed by Joe Hockey in #MYEFO

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The Abbott Government slashing of climate change infrastructure continues in the latest Midyear Economic Forecast by the Treasurer Joe Hock...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Opinion: Tony Abbott's Direct Action climate policy not enough

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The Latest IPSOS poll by Fairfax in December 2014 shows that most people think Tony Abbott's Direct Action Climate Change Policy is not ...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Opinion Poll: more extreme weather expected, linked to climate change by Australian public

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An opinion poll across Australia by Essential media has found that most people expect extreme weather events to get worse, and that this tre...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Tony Abbott praises coal for prosperity ignoring huge health and climate costs

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Our Prime Minister Tony Abbott is out of touch with the realities of coal with regard to it's ongoing impact on population health and m...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Australian Government in denial on proposals for climate action at UN Climate summit

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The reason the Peoples Climate protest occurred is that there is a UN summit on climate change on 23 September called by UN Secretary Gen...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Politician statements on Australia abolishing the carbon price

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On 17th July the Australian Carbon price was repealed on the third attempt through the Australian Senate with the amendments of the Palmer U...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Opinion Surveys: Climate leadership demanded of Australian Government

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Climate change action continues to be an issue of concern in national politics and debate with federal politicians being way more conservat...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Climate science and clean energy suffer under first Abbott budget

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey used the federal government's first budget to continue the assault on s...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Australia's 2014 summer breaks more records

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Reading the climate Council latest report on the Angry Summer 2013/2014 (PDF) I was struck by the extent and rapidity of the changes in te...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 19 percent says Australia's Climate Change Authority

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The Australian Climate change Authority has released its final assessment on what Australia's climate emissions reduction target should...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Alcoa smelter closure opportunity to close coal power at Anglesea and in La Trobe Valley

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This week Alcoa announced the closure of it's Port Henry smelter and aluminium rolling mills after a review conducted in the last year....
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Australian Public opinion on carbon pricing and climate change

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Was Australia's Federal election a referendum on the carbon price and Australia's policies on climate change? Prime Minister Tony Ab...

Australian Emissions set to increase by 12 per cent by 2020 under Tony Abbott

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According to Climate Action Tracker , it is likely Australian emissions under the Liberals policy will actually increase by 12 per cent by 2...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Australia wins Fossil awards for repeal of carbon pricing and abandoning neighbors on loss and damage

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Just four days in to the United Nations climate negotiations in Warsaw and Australia are winning our 3rd Fossil award for abandoning our nei...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Australia earns first rebuke by civil society at UN climate change talks

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Australia had the dubious priveledge of earning the first Fossil of the Day award at the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. Ci...