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Kean’s wants subsidies for electrification and poo-poos the idea that we need more gas supply.

Green Kean’s appearance at sustainable event in Labor seat has Libs seeing red

The former Liberal state treasurer turned Albanese government’s climate tsar will front an electrify event in Bennelong, now held by Labor.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook

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Matt Kean is chair of the Climate Change Authority, which will soon advise the government on a new national 2035 emissions reduction goal.

The former Liberal leading Labor and the nation to a renewable future

Despite some Coalition politicians rejecting net zero targets, the Climate Change Authority chair says the “community has already decided” on the issue.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Climate Change Authority chairman Matt Kean (left) and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen.

Australians have their say on new climate targets as Coalition prepares for another brawl on net zero

A more ambitious 2035 emissions-reduction target gets support from a range of Australians, even from Coalition voters.

  • James Massola and Paul Sakkal
Matt Kean, the former Liberal NSW treasurer now serving as chair of the Climate Change Authority.

How do you decarbonise an economy? Line by line, says Matt Kean

The Liberal Party true believer finds himself at the centre of one of the Albanese Labor government’s most confounding policy challenges.

  • Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons

The March 22 Edition

My two weeks with an AI ‘companion’ | A former Liberal MP on becoming a climate champion | Kate Grenville’s eye-opening road trip | Battling transphobia

Matt Kean in Berowra Valley National Park in northern Sydney: “We’ve got a chance to have some of the cheapest energy bills anywhere in the world.”

Death threats, 3am texts: Former Liberal MP Matt Kean on becoming a climate champion

His stance on global warming has earned him powerful enemies – but the Climate Change Authority chair believes the stakes are too high to beat about the bush.

  • Anne Hyland
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Two teenagers have died in a boating accident at a holiday park in north-western NSW during the summer break.

Waste is one thing, essential services are another

Peter Dutton’s promise to cut government “waste” will make life harder for the public, a reader writes.

‘Nuclear carbon emission bomb’: 2b tonne greenhouse gas surge forecast under Coalition

The Climate Change Authority has warned a switch to nuclear would lead Australia to miss its climate target for 2030 and struggle to reach net zero by 2050.

  • David Crowe
A helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighbourhood and Encino.

Why the LA fires should spark economic alarm in Australia

The Californian infernos should remind Australia’s leaders about the enormous costs of not acting to mitigate the effects of climate change.

  • Matt Kean
Trump and climate

Why Trump will force Labor to delay 2035 climate target, and the Dutton challenge that follows

“The election of Donald Trump, his statements on climate change and positions on energy policy are likely to have a global impact,” warns Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean.

  • Mike Foley

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