
Ministers addressing our spiralling energy crisis have ignored the greatest opportunities
There is an energy crisis. Actually, there are two separate but related crises, an electricity price crisis and gas price crisis. While...

Richie Merzian: Hosting a UN climate conference at home could be just what the region needs
Despite Australia vowing to launch a ‘new chapter in relations with our Pacific family’ in 2018, recent events have made it clear...

Largest coal plant to close early, but where is the national roadmap to manage the rest?
Australia’s largest power station is shutting down in 2025, seven years early. Origin Energy, having bought the power station from the New...

Funding for the Reef: A one billion dollar drop in the ocean
Headlines about public funding in an election year are generally accompanied by hi-vis vests, the promise of more jobs and occasionally a...

Richie Merzian: The Morrison government hasn’t done its homework for COP26
I’m in Glasgow and the city is buzzing. World leaders are starting to file in with cavalcades of police around them. Curiously,...

Richie Merzian: Net zero by 2050 is a fraud if fossil fuels flourish
If you’ve ever seen the TV food series Nailed It!, or if you yourself are an amateur cook with a colourful track...

The government is playing a dangerous game with our climate
Australia leads the world when it comes to claims that we are leading the world – whether it’s on our vaccine rollout,...

Richie Merzian: The regrets Prime Minister Scott Morrison will have at G7
“I sort of call this the Frank Sinatra approach” Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently told mining executives at the Minerals Council of...

Scott Morrison’s climate summit speech was littered with downright dodgy claims
I have sat through countless speeches on climate change from world leaders, both working for the government and outside it, and Prime...