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Koala conservation strategy for south-east Queensland leaves conservationists ‘cautiously optimistic’

Dominic Cansdale reports for the ABC (8.12.19) on the state government’s release of a draft South East Queensland Koala Conservation Strategy, aiming to reverse koala habitat loss

Australia’s science academy attacks ‘cherry-picking’ of Great Barrier Reef research

Graham Readfearn reports in The Guardian (26.11.19) that a Senate inquiry into farming practices’ impacts upon the Great Barrier Reef has been warned of ‘selective’ and

Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it

Ross Garnaut writes in The Conversation (6.11.19) that, if climate action fails, the consequences ‘would be beyond contemporary Australia’ to deal with. However, the eminent economist believes

Australia’s tortured energy debate: what is the state of play?

Katharine Murphy comments in The Guardian (13.10.19) on the current state of energy policy debate in Australia, looking at how we got from a national energy

Coal miners and urban greenies have one thing in common, and Labor must use it

Fabio Mattioli and Kari Dahlgren write in The Conversation (11.10.19) that the Labor Party will not win an election by cozying up to the coal industry

The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. There are a whopping 45 reasons why

Jon Day and Scott Heron write in The Conversation (12.9.19) about the threat that climate change poses to the Great Barrier Reef. The authors note that

Climate change is bringing a new world of bushfires

Dale Dominey-Howes writes in The Conversation (11.9.19) about the bushfires currently devastating parts of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales. The author notes that climate change

Is Adani still playing for time?

TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John Quiggin, writes in Inside Story (6.9.19) that native title is the latest casualty of Adani’s coalmining plans, but wonders if the

‘Safety reset’ at all Queensland mines and quarries following deaths

Felicity Caldwell reports in the Brisbane Times (9.7.19) about concerns in Queensland’s mining industry over workers’ safety, following a spate of deaths at mine sites over

The Murray-Darling Basin scandal: economists have seen it coming for decades

TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John Quiggin, writes in The Conversation (9.7.19) about alarming revelations from a Four Corners report into seeming mismanagement of irrigation funding

Explaining Adani: why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will probably lose money?

TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John Quiggin, writes in The Conversation (3.6.19) about the latest progress of the Adani Carmichael coal mine project, after additional government

Australia isn’t doing its part for the global climate. Sooner or later we’ll have to pay our share

TJ Ryan Foundation Research Associate, John Quiggin, comments in The Guardian (27.5.19) on the federal government’s reluctance to take more meaningful action on climate policy, arguing

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