If the Morrison government really wants us to believe it will ship 70,000 tonnes of Australian coal straight by the Russian navy in the Black Sea, bang through a war zone, it is proving very reluctant to share even the slightest detail of how it might accomplish this feat of ridiculousness. Callum Foote and Michael West report.
Source: Morrison’s madcap plan to send coal to Ukraine just another “announceable”? – Michael West Media
Australia is languishing yet again with a shaky climate policy. We were late to the party in our commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and some suggested the Prime Minister had to be strong-armed by the Queen and Prince Charles to attending the UN COP26 meeting last week. And the government’s “uniquely Australian” plan to get to net zero looks woefully inadequate, relying on future technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere that will burden us with crippling costs – and with little prospect of it working at anywhere near the scale required.
Source: The coal hard facts: the economics and the science refute the so-called ‘Australian way’
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