10 February 2021
Members of the federal government backbench have gleefully leapt on a new report from their favourite conservative think thank that sensationally claims that entire regional townships will be “devastated” by stronger emissions reduction targets.
The report from the Institute of Public Affairs, amplified by the likes of Nationals Senator Matt Canavan and others, and the Murdoch media, is clearly designed to undermine prime minister Scott Morrison, who is reportedly preparing to commit Australia to a zero emissions target.
If you are to believe the IPA – which has previously argued Australia should withdraw from international climate targets, and dump all climate and renewable energy schemes – more than 650,000 jobs could be “at risk” with the introduction of a target to reach net zero emissions.
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A Daily Telegraph story claimed HSC students were marked down for using gender and cultural stereotypes. Photograph: James Horan/AAP
A Daily Telegraph story claimed HSC students were marked down for using gender and cultural stereotypes. Photograph: James Horan/AAP
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Days after News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch warned of an âawful woke orthodoxyâ, the Daily Telegraph demonstrated the bossâs point with a front-page story about political correctness in education. âSchool of Hard Wokeâ was designed to stir anger in readers about the âactivist teachersâ who apparently penalised students for not giving âwokeâ answers in the HSC exams last year.
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Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 4:16 pm
It’s the sort of stuff that should have been sorted
years ago in Australia: a murderous, frontier society ill
disposed to the indigenous populace; the creation of a
convict colony that was itself an act of invasion rather
than settlement; the theft of land and its rapacious
plunder.
Even some of the rough colonists were not
oblivious to such a crude record. Henry Parkes, in planning
the Centenary celebrations as New South Wales premier in
1888, was
asked by a fellow politician what he would be doing for
the poor and needy for the occasion. Wealthy landed citizens
2 February 2021
Gina Rinehart – Australia’s richest woman and a financial supporter of one of the country’s most fiercest critics of climate and renewables policy – is to have a 30MW solar farm constructed at her main iron ore mining operations to help it cut emissions.
Rinehart’s Roy Hill Iron Ore – 70 per cent owned by Hancock Prospecting – reveals the plans for the solar farm in a revised submission to the state’s Environmental Protection Authority outlining its Greenhouse Gas Management Plan as it seeks to lift production.
It says it has decided to build the 30MW solar farm in co-operation with Alinta Energy, the utility that operates the local grid, and which is completing the nearby 60MW Chichester solar farm for the Fortescue iron ore operations that is served by the same network.