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Secret polling undertaken on behalf of the NSW Liberals demonstrates the electoral peril of abandoning net zero by 2050.

Leaked Liberal polling warns of electoral peril if NSW Coalition walks away from net zero

“Ditching net zero means electoral wipe out in Sydney”: Internal polling reveals voters strongly support reducing emissions by 2050.

  • Max Maddison

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WA gas report tabled in parliament different from leaked version. Picture: WAtoday

Spot the difference: Leaked WA gas report changed before it was tabled in parliament

The report was tabled in parliament on Tuesday afternoon after the draft version, meant to be a confidential cabinet document, was leaked. But there are notable changes. 

  • Holly Thompson and Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook has been questioned over the report.

A $400,000 gas report was ‘kept quiet’ from the WA public. Its findings have been leaked

WA’s peak environmental body has slammed the government over the findings on net zero, stating they had “drunk the gas industry Kool-Aid” and were “allergic” to any serious examination of decarbonisation initiatives. 

  • Holly Thompson
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon arrive at JFK International Airport ahead of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Albanese touches down in New York as climate and Palestine dominate

The prime minister has arrived in New York. Donald Trump, emissions reduction targets and Palestine are on the agenda.

  • Matthew Knott and Shane Wright
Simon Trott, chief executive of Rio Tinto iron ore, at the Rhodes Ridge deposit in the Pilbara.

Rio Tinto unveils $215m ‘green steel’ Rockingham research plant

Australia’s biggest iron ore producer has 16,000 employees, 17 mines, four port terminals and 2000 kilometres of rail in the Pilbara. Now it plans to transform their impact.

  • Jesinta Burton
Curtin independent MP Kate Chaney.

Perth climate voters get MP on board with net-zero ‘vision for future’

The teal independent, who is glad to be free of “party ideologies”, says her constituents’ action and work will help her advocate for them at a federal level.

  • Hamish Hastie
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WA Premier Roger cook, electric vehicles 2050 main picture. Picture: WAtoday

Future planning: Is this the year petrol will disappear from WA?

A close look at the WA government’s new 40-page emissions reductions strategy has found some bold predictions of what the state could look like in 26 years’ time.

  • Hamish Hastie
Health workers rally outside Parliament House.

‘Say no to gas’: WA doctors rally at Parliament House

GPs, emergency doctors and surgeons have rallied outside the West Australian parliament urging the Cook government to stop gas projects and safeguard public health.

  • Aaron Bunch
WA Premier Roger Cook, gas, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage, energy transition. Picture: WAtoday

‘Up to its guts’: WA premier reveals green energy project sweeteners

WA Premier Roger Cook declared the state was “up to its guts” in decarbonisation at an energy transition summit convened by his government in Perth on Friday.

  • Hamish Hastie
Western Australia Premier Roger Cook.

Next stop China: Cook takes Asian tour to state’s biggest trading partner

Nine News Perth can reveal the state government will use the visit to lobby for direct flights, a service that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Michael Genovese

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