Opinion
Courts and shareholders are piling pressure on fossil fuel companies to cut emissions and there’s no turning back the climate activism, argue Jacqueline Peel, Ben Neville and Rebekkah Markey-Towler.
News
South Australian Labor Left powerbroker Mark Butler has been moved from the contentious climate change portfolio but picked up the health shadow ministry, as Labor leader Anthony Albanese confirmed an overhaul of his frontbench line-up ahead of the next election.
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China says some Australian coal imports have failed to meet environmental standards, amid reports that 53 bulk carriers holding more than five million tonnes of Australian coal worth $500 million have been stranded off Chinese ports for a month, anchored and unable to unload.
South Australian company Leigh Creek Energy has been granted a petroleum production licence to commence commercial syngas production at the former coal mine site in the state’s far north.
Labor renegade Joel Fitzgibbon has chastised senior Labor frontbench figures as party divisions deepen over climate change policy and its impact on regional, blue-collar industry and the ALP’s electoral future.
Senior Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon has quit the shadow cabinet and will move to the back bench after an internal brawl on energy policy.
Powerful blue collar unions are urging Labor to show greater unity on energy policy by strongly supporting coal and gas.
