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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…

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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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