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Australia’s new budget feeds taxpayer fuel to an emissions monster – RenewEconomy
The granting of public money to one of Australia’s biggest coal-hungry emissions monsters is a notable acceleration of the government’s descent into climate sel…
Most of the Australian government’s 2020 budget was unsurprising. It’s packed with levers and hammers and tweezers to try and coax Australia through the inevitable pandemic-caused recession, attempting to place guide rails under the dip in economic growth and lift it upwards.
As we already well know (and I have been shouting since April), a centrepiece of the government’s plans involve investing heavily in expanding the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Ever since bushfires tore through t…
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