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Press gallery committee rejects corporate sponsors for Midwinter Ball

Last year’s ball was broadly criticised for accepting headline sponsorship from fossil fuel companies Shell and Woodside.

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Western Australia's biggest emitters increase carbon output 5 per cent year on year

Analysis by the ABC of the past six financial years of reported emissions, under the national safeguard mechanism, shows a 15 per cent increase in carbon dioxide released by major WA projects, and up 5 per cent on last year's figure.

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Super funds investing billions into new coal and gas

Australia's biggest super funds are financing the companies causing irreversible damage to the climate to the tune of $25 billion.

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Australia’s resources minister heaps warm praise on gas as industry PR spree masks doubts about future

Madeleine King says gas can help decarbonise the economy but not even big users of the fossil fuel are convinced

The Guardian - AU

Probe to find 'definitive answer' on emissions damage to rock art at Murujuga gas, fertiliser plants

Opinion remains divided about the impact of heavy industry on ancient rock art at Murujuga, but data from 22 new air quality monitors hopes to help clear up the "purely anecdotal" and unscientific findings to date.

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Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions

In joint statement companies say they are ‘ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them

The Guardian - AU

‘Psychopaths running big polluters’: fossil fuel shares dip amid hard cap

The hard cap could slash the number of fossil fuel projects in Australia, but the Greens warn the climate wars have barely begun.

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Plan to reduce emissions will have unintended consequences on agriculture, farmers say

Farmers are raising concerns the federal government's plan to reduce the emissions of big polluters would rely too heavily on carbon credits from agriculture.

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Funds accused of 'greenwashing' by market lobby group

The environment-focussed lobby group Market Forces has criticised five super funds for not doing enough to challenge the fossil fuel firms they invest in.

AAP

Angry shareholders target Woodside directors over climate change

Institutional shareholders angry at Woodside Energy's approach to climate change will take their fight to its board for the first time.

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Call for Woodside directors' heads over climate change

Woodside Energy's board is failing shareholders on climate change and three directors up for re-election should pay the price, activist shareholders say.

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Alan Kohler: To defeat climate change, Australia must do the impossible

The climate argument between Labor and The Greens is as strange as the carbon-reduction target being impossible to meet.

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WA's slow renewable energy transition raises doubts about whether coal power stations can close by 2029

New data shows the state received just 5 per cent of the renewable energy capacity that companies committed to last year, raising concerns about whether coal-fired power stations will be able to close at the end of the decade.

ABC News

It’s double or nothing

The mess caused by Scott Morrison’s multiple ministries grows as a visa decision made by former home affairs minister Karen Andrews is challenged in court, and a British MP has laughed off Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s assessment of where our nuclear subs should be built.

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Australian Indigenous group steps up campaign to protect sacred rock art

An Australian Indigenous group on Thursday stepped up its campaign against industrial development in Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula, a key gas export hub, saying in a protest in Sydney that planned projects would damage ancient rock art.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Coalition minister admits making false statements about robodebt; Romanian PM’s AI adviser; and the best dishwashing liquid

Stuart Robert has told the royal commission he had ‘no choice’ but to give false statements to ABC

The Guardian - AU

Woodside claims its emissions are falling – but only by using the ‘last resort’ of offsets

A detailed reading of the company’s climate change report reveals a different picture from that of its headline claims

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Woodside accused of not taking carbon emission responsibilities seriously in new climate report

Climate action groups are warning some of the nation's biggest emitters face growing increasingly isolated from shareholders and industry groups if they do not act to reduce their carbon output.

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Woodside profit more than triples; ‘illegal’ strip search claims; and New York’s mountain of weed

Oil and gas giant’s underlying profit hits $7.7bn as energy prices surge in wake of Ukraine invasion

The Guardian - AU

Woodside’s latest report a ‘fail’ despite profit more than tripling, climate activists say

Critics say energy giant’s windfall gain from price rises in wake of invasion of Ukraine will likely prove short-lived as markets accelerate shift to renewables

AAP

Energy crisis, merger fuels higher Woodside profit

Oil and gas giant Woodside has announced an underlying full-year net profit of $US5.2 billion ($A7.7 billion), up 223 per cent from the previous year.

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Artist who defaced painting says police raided her home

Joana Partyka, who defaced Frederick McCubbin's work Down On His Luck in a protest, says her home has been raided by counter-terrorism police.

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Woodside opponent arrested over parliament vandalism

Woodside's logo has been painted on the front entrance of the WA parliament in the latest protest against the oil and gas giant's activities.

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Fine for protest against Woodside using art masterpiece

A woman has pleaded guilty to criminal damage and fined $2637 over an attack on an Australian masterpiece at the Art Gallery of WA.

Reuters

Australia nominates Murujuga landscape for World Heritage listing

Australia has formally nominated the Murujuga Indigenous cultural landscape for a UNESCO World Heritage listing, which could help protect more than a million ancient rock carvings, the government said on Friday.

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