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Adani – Interactive cost, environmental impacts, jobs and the future

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Interactive: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future ABC News: Nationwide, a majority of voters are against building the Adani coal mine The Morrison Government gave it the final federal approvals before going into caretaker mode, reportedly after pressure from some...
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How to transition from coal: 4 lessons for Australia from around the world

BUSINESS
How to transition from coal: 4 lessons for Australia from around the world Chris Briggs, University of Technology Sydney; Elsa Dominish, University of Technology Sydney, and Franziska Mey, University of Technology Sydney With 12 coal power stations in Australia closed since 2013, a full transition out of coal is coming. Around the...
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The big con: how neoliberals (Liberal & National Party) convinced us there wasn’t enough to go around

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The big con: how neoliberals convinced us there wasn't enough to go around Richard DennisAustralia just experienced one of the biggest mining booms in world history. But even at the peak of that boom, there was no talk of the wonderful opportunity we finally had to invest in world-class mental...
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Dirty Power: Big Coal’s dirty network of influence over both sides of Australian Government

POLITICS
If you’ve ever wondered why so many Australians oppose coal, but coal keeps coming out of the ground, then a new short film by Greenpeace’s investigative unit is probably going to help shed some light for you. But be warned, it’s short and sharp and very dense with information, and...
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Tide is turning on News Corp, and its owner

POLITICS
Tony Koch winner of five Walkley Awards stated "No editor I worked for would have put up with the biased anti-Labor rubbish that, shamefully, the papers now produce on a daily basis". Mounting evidence the tide is turning on News Corp, and its owner There is a sense that democratic societies...
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Compare the pair: key policy offerings from Labor and the Coalition in the 2019 federal budget

POLITICS
Compare the pair: key policy offerings from Labor and the Coalition in the 2019 federal election Andrew Donegan, The Conversation and Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation With the election less than a week away, here is a quick guide to the major policy announcements and promises from the two major parties. Andrew Donegan,...
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What is and isn’t a ‘sovereign risk’

POLITICS
What is Sovereign Risk Sovereign risk is the chance that a central bank will implement foreign exchange rules that will significantly reduce or negate the worth of its forex contracts. It also includes the risk that a foreign nation will either fail to meet debt repayments or not honor sovereign debt...
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Bowen’s promise of a surplus will be hard to fudge

POLITICS
Bowen’s promise of a surplus will be hard to fudge In Australian politics, handing down a budget surplus has become the acid test of a government’s economic management credentials. The Liberal Party often draws a contrast between the ALP, which has not run a budget surplus since 1989, and the...
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Dirty Coal Peddlers

COAL
The coal industry has infiltrated Australia's federal government through a secretive network of ties, working to influence Australia’s political decisions at the highest level: right up to the office of the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison GREENPEACE HAS UNCOVERED THE WEB OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE WORLD’S BIGGEST COAL GIANTS, INDUSTRY GROUPS,...
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Adani will decimate Australia’s Great Artesian Basin

POLITICS
Unpacking the flaws in Adani's water management plan Matthew Currell, RMIT University and Adrian Werner, Flinders University Adani’s groundwater dependent ecosystem management plan for its proposed Carmichael coal mine was recently approved by federal Environment Minister Melissa Price, despite a review from CSIRO and Geoscience Australia that points out major problems...
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