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Carbon reduction cash is tiny next to coal subsidy We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 22, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: The Prime Minister’s pledge to spend $500 million on carbon reduction schemes over an unspecified period contrasts with the billions of dollars every year in subsidies to the coal industry (“PM promises $500m hydrogen, carbon fund”, April 21). Adding insult to injury, nearly half the new expenditure is for unfeasible carbon capture schemes. To compensate for Australia’s dir...

The Sydney Morning Herald is a home. It opens its front door and we know we will be nourished with knowledge and involvement. The loneliness disappears and we find friends on each page as the stories fill our hearts. We are left overjoyed with news of someone once lost but now found. We are educated in complicated finance, made aware of real estate, technology and environmental issues; everything is there. Thank you Herald for the education, the political and sport coverage and other stories, the complicated puzzles, editorials, for it all. And for being a clever, kind friend. Happy birthda...

What’s being commemorated can no longer be celebrated We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 26, 2021 — 12.10am Save Normal text size Credit:Sydney Morning Herald When I was a kid, it was standard fare on January 26 for a boatload of men in old-fashioned military uniforms to row a boat ashore at Farm Cove. They’d disembark and chase a bunch of Indigenous natives carrying spears. They were all actors re-enacting the landing of the first Europeans. It is my understanding that the last time that this occurred was January 26...