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The death of coal-fired power is inevitable – yet the government still has no plan to help its workforce

Chris Biggs writes in The Conversation (12.3.21) about the coming closure of Victoria’s Yallourn coal-fired power station, criticising the Morrison government for having no plan for Australian coal

A major report excoriated Australia’s environment laws. Sussan Ley’s response is confused and risky

Peter Burnett writes in The Conversation (29.1.21) about the release of a damning report into Australia’s management of its natural environment, observing a ‘contradictory’ response from

Punching above our weight looks like getting us knocked out

TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John Quiggin, writes in Inside Story (14.12.20) about the Australian government being snubbed by international organisers of the Climate Ambition Summit, suggesting

Angus Taylor’s gas plan is an astoundingly bad idea, on so many levels

Simon Holmes à Court comments in The Guardian (17.9.20) on the federal government’s ‘gas-fired recovery’ plan to underpin the economic pathway out of the pandemic crisis.

Environment Minister Sussan Ley is in a tearing hurry to embrace nature law reform – and that’s a worry

Peter Burnett writes in The Conversation (20.7.20) about the Coalition’s worrying push to change Australia’s environmental law framework. ‘The Morrison government on Monday released a long-awaited interim

We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy

Terry Hughes and Morgan Pratchett write in The Conversation (7.4.20) about their latest research on the health of the Great Barrier Reef, describing how, for the first

Labor’s climate policy is too little, too late. We must run faster to win the race

Will Steffen writes in The Conversation (24.2.20) that ‘simple maths’ reveals Labor’s newly announced policy on emissions reduction, if replicated by all other nations, would not

Australia is ‘ground zero’ in climate crisis and must show leadership, top researchers say

Lisa Cox reports in The Guardian (29.1.20) on an open letter signed by 80 of Australia’s leading researchers – including TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John

Inaugural John Sinclair Memorial Lecture

Dr John Sinclair AO, founder of the Fraser Island Defenders Organisation (FIDO), died on 3rd February 2019. FIDO is honouring the outstanding contribution John made to

Take care when examining the economic impact of fires. GDP doesn’t tell the full story

Janine Dixon writes in The Conversation (17.1.20) about attempts to quantify the costs of this summer’s destructive bushfires, reminding that GDP is well suited to many things,

BlackRock is the canary in the coalmine. Its decision to dump coal signals what’s next

TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John Quiggin, writes in The Conversation (16.1.20) about the implications of the world’s largest fund manager pledging to toughen its stance on

Slow burn – Australia’s summer of bushfire crisis

TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John Quiggin, writes in Inside Story (1.1.20) about the bushfire crisis threatening communities across Australia, and how the danger to life

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