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BHP faces fresh calls to quit Minerals Council ahead of pro-coal ad blitz
Upcoming multimillion-dollar advertising campaign will aim to 'invoke national pride' in coal.
Call to arms: how can Australia avoid a slow and painful decline?
Australia has been warned it risks 'drifting into the future' if it fails to respond to challenges in a fast-changing world.
John Quiggin: Australia isn't doing its part for the global climate. Sooner or later we’ll have to pay our share
The cost of responding to climate change is trivial compared with the benefits.
'Holy grail': How textile recycling can help slash emissions, pollution and landfill
Adrian Jones and Graham Ross have pioneered a process that takes blended fabrics and reduces them to raw components.
Out on its own: Australia the only country to use climate funding to upgrade coal-fired plants
Australia is the only developed country that allows climate change funding to be used to upgrade coal-fired power plants, green finance experts say.
Labor says Australia can remain energy 'superpower' - but only if climate wars end
Australia is in a position to replace thermal coal exports with the export of renewable energy technologies if the parliament can settle an energy policy and end a decade of policy chaos, the Labor frontbencher Pat Conroy says.
Most Australians want more renewables to help lower power prices - poll
More than 70% of Australians want the government to set a high renewable energy target to put downward pressure on power prices, according to a new poll.