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Bob Brown

January 2024

The offshore wind bounty in the North Sea is unlikely to work in Australia.

Wetland or ocean wind farm? The choice is easy this time

There’s little chance of Victoria ever building its offshore turbines. But this week’s veto of the state’s plans contained an important precedent on the use of net zero in the environment legislation.

  • Matthew Warren

March 2023

“This legislation establishes a new nature repair market in Australia – the first of its kind in the world,” said Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Plibersek ignites fresh battle between green groups and miners

Miners fear Labor’s ‘nature repair market’ could block access to land, while conservation groups hate the idea of another tradable offset market.

  • Jacob Greber
Adam Bandt, seen with Bob Brown in 2011, must choose pragmatism.

The cost of Green-left purity is too high

The Greens must put pragmatism before ideology to pass the safeguard mechanism or risk another 2010-style dead end.

  • The AFR View
Green voters say they want action on the safeguard mechanism, according to a new poll.

Greens voters overwhelmingly support Labor’s heavy emitters scheme

The survey suggests many Greens voters would be dismayed if the party torpedoed Labor’s safeguard mechanism legislation.

  • Jacob Greber

Green-left split over Labor’s carbon plan

Bob Brown has sensationally quit the Australian Conservation Foundation after it urged the Greens to prioritise passing Labor’s safeguard mechanism.

  • Jacob Greber
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March 2022

MMG’s proposed tailings dam would require clearing of Tarkine rainforest.

Federal, Tasmanian ministers sued over MMG mine approvals

Former Greens leader Bob Brown’s foundation is bringing the cases as part of a bid to stop MMG building a tailings dam to store heavy metals waste in the ancient Tarkine rainforest.

  • Hannah Wootton

November 2021

“Hydrogen is part of the mix, though it isn’t the simplistic answer that Dr Forrest is presenting it as,” says Bob Brown.

Bob Brown targets hydrogen revolution

The politicisation of hydrogen raises the likely cost of the technology, which the Morrison government has put at the centre of its 2050 net zero plan.

  • Jacob Greber
Hydrogen isn’t a simple answer, says Bob Brown.

Bob Brown changes tune on Twiggy’s green hydrogen

Into Australia’s green hydrogen wars steps the founding father of the Australian Greens.

  • Joe Aston

September 2021

Former Greens leader Bob Brown says there will be a groundswell of opposition to nuclear submarines.

Anti-nuke campaigners prepare for a new battle

The anti-nuclear campaigners of the 1970s and 1980s believe the public won’t support nuclear submarines docking in their capital cities.

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  • Mark Ludlow and Julie Hare

February 2021

In 2020, the PM said the aim of net zero was merely ‘a glib promise’; now its a “global norm.”

Morrison’s 2050 U-turn is a job killer

There’s a reason Nationals MPs are up in arms about Scott Morrison’s net zero emissions policy. It puts at risk the livelihoods of 650,000 Australians, mostly in Coalition seats.

  • John Roskam

December 2019

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as he did again on Thursday, attributed the fires to climate change "and many other factors", without elaborating on what these might be.

Climate politics are truly bizarre

As Sydney choked in bushfire smoke, the Labor party headed to the coal belt and the Coalition fell over itself as it stampeded rhetorically in the other direction. Phil Coorey explains what is going on.

  • Phillip Coorey
"Not only are these medals costly but they demonstrate the government's intention to create a military style and culture within the Australian Border Force": Labor's waste watch spokesman Pat Conroy.

Ten years on, Labor blames Greens for failed carbon price scheme

Labor has dramatically escalated attacks on the Greens, blaming the minor party for 218 million additional tonnes of carbon polution in a decade. 

  • Tom McIlroy

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