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Vikki Campion was a reporter between 2002 and 2014 – leaving the media industry for politics, where she has worked since. She writes a weekly column for The Saturday Telegraph.

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16/07/2021 Hills of Gold Preservation Inc members, (L-R) Alena Lavrushkina,  president John Krsulja and Megan Trousdale,  on land that will be destroyed by ENGIE Australia New ZealandÕs proposed 70-turbine Hills of Gold Wind Farm on the Great Dividing Range and Liverpool Range. Andrews Pearson/The Australian

Blowing the whistle on puffery of wind power

It’s a great Australian tradition to call people out when they’re talking BS, writes Vikki Campion, but the government’s new laws won’t allow us to call them out on their claims about wind power.

Opinion
GULKULA, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 2, 2024. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends The Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures Australia's largest Indigenous cultural gathering is underway in Gulkula northeast Arnhem Land. Picture:  Yothu Yindi Foundation/Leicolhn McKellar via NewsWire

Red-carpet glamping won’t fix much, PM

How can our PM think that attending a $2750-a-ticket festival in East Arnhem Land via private plane for a red-carpet glamping event is making any difference to the lives of Indigenous people, asks Vikki Campion.

Opinion
The Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison has spent the second day of his visit to Western Australia at the Christmas Creek mine site in The PIlbara. PIctured -Prime MInister joins FMG CEO Andrew Forrest and workers in morning stretches at the site in the states North West on April 16, 2021. Picture - Justin Benson-Cooper / The West Australian

Leaders taken in by Twiggy’s hydrogen Fantasyland

Politicians from both sides of the fence believed Andrew Forrest when he sold them the idea that green hydrogen could power Australia and create tens of thousands of jobs. That premise has turned out to be a fantasy, writes Vikki Campion.

Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/vikki-campion/page/3