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Watch: Labor strikes deal with Greens for climate commitment

The Australian Government has secured the Greens' support to implement its central climate change commitment, after months of negotiations.

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To defeat climate change, Australia must do the impossible

The climate argument between Labor and The Greens is as strange as the carbon-reduction target being impossible to meet.
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Chris Bowen reignites climate fight with savage one word statement after controversial Coalition decision

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has issued a savage one-word statement in response to the Coalition’s decision to vote against the climate safeguard reforms. “Hypocrites,” he wrote.

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Adam Morton: Labor is sending mixed messages on energy – and some of it sounds like climate denial

The release of vast new areas along the Australian coast for oil and gas exploration is undermining proclamations about creating a cleaner economy.

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Australia is about to pass its first-ever climate change bill

The Greens will throw their support behind Australia’s first-ever climate change legislation, which should be enough to enshrine an emissions reduction target of 43 percent by 2030 into federal law.

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Richard Denniss: Australia’s farcical climate policy - market forces to cut emissions and subsidies to destroy carbon sinks

Australia's federal government pays some people to protect native forests, while state governments pay others to cut them down.

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Climate burns the right

Australia’s Liberals are the latest major party to pay the price for slow climate action.
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