HISTORICAL FACTS: 32 - Caught on Camera

Budget papers show Morrison government to reduce annual climate spending over next four years

Yearly expenditure on climate change programs expected to be 35% lower in 2025-26 than now

The Guardian - AU · Mar 29, 2022

New gas, technologies key to energy future

Vast gas reserves, technologies and new critical minerals projects will power economic growth and meet future energy needs, according to the budget blueprint.

AAP · Mar 29, 2022

Russia’s murderous regime is propped up by oil and gas – Australia and the world must switch

The atrocities against Ukraine have to be stopped. Dismantling and replacing the fossil fuel system that funds the war is a good place to start

The Guardian - AU · Mar 28, 2022

It’s nonsense for Angus Taylor to suggest Australia could face an energy crisis like Europe’s

Australia already has energy independence and extracts more gas than it needs to meet domestic demand. Indeed three-quarters is exported as LNG

The Guardian - AU · Mar 24, 2022

Insider blows whistle on Australia's greenhouse gas reduction schemes

The former chair of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, Andrew Macintosh, says Australia's carbon offset schemes lack integrity.

ABC News · Mar 23, 2022

Australia’s carbon credit scheme ‘largely a sham’, says whistleblower who tried to rein it in

Prof Andrew Macintosh says the system, which gives credits for projects such as regrowing native forests after clearing, is ‘a fraud’ on taxpayers and consumers

The Guardian - AU · Mar 23, 2022

How much is it costing the Australian government to send 70,000 tonnes of coal to Ukraine?

The federal government is remaining tight-lipped about the cost of a deal made with Whitehaven Coal to ship thermal coal to Ukraine.

ABC News · Mar 22, 2022

Carbon credit companies to cash in on multi-billion-dollar windfall from the government

Private companies are set to receive a multi-billion-dollar windfall, after being allowed to break long-standing government supply contracts to cash in on a booming carbon credit market.

ABC News · Mar 20, 2022

Icac queries grant made by John Barilaro to company linked to Angus Taylor’s family

Icac refuses to confirm or deny if it’s investigating, but has asked questions about the $107,000 grant

The Guardian - AU · Mar 13, 2022

Angus Taylor attacks Beetaloo Basin activists and says Australia right to expand fossil fuels

Taylor says Australia has ‘kept our foot on the accelerator’ when it comes to supply of oil and gas

The Guardian - AU · Mar 9, 2022