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Topic: fossil fuel industries
Senator for Queensland Matt Canavan (Image: ABC News/Matt Roberts)

Matt Canavan says government doesn’t subsidise Australia’s fossil-fuel industries. Is he correct?

Fact Check

Aug 07, 2020

7

The ANU's fossil fuel divestment strategy is hardly novel -- plenty of investors are bailing out of fossil fuel stocks, and for more than just moral reasons, write <b>Glenn Dyer</b>, <b>Bernard Keane</b> and <b>Paddy Manning</b>.

The ANU’s in good company — whatever Abbott might advise investors

Companies

Oct 16, 2014

24

If there is a single mechanism that stands in the way of clean energy development across the globe it is fossil fuel subsidies, writes <b>Giles Parkinson</b>, of Climate Spectator.

NSW’s great big coal subsidy scandal

Environment

Nov 01, 2011

20

Ferguson has mostly been interested in protecting the supply of fossil fuels or export or use at home, although he has shown an increasing interest in solar of late, writes <b>Giles Parkinson</b> from <a href="http://www.climatespectator.com.au" target="_blank"><em>Climate Spectator</em></a>.

Will Australia miss the global solar boom?

Companies

Sep 27, 2011

14

Can solar energy really match the price of fossil-fuelled electricity? asks <b>Giles Parkinson</b> of Climate Spectator.

Hillary puts Australian solar producers to the test

Energy

Nov 09, 2010

3

The existing myopic political system and corporate attitudes are incapable of handling the depth and breadth of climate change reform that is now needed, <b>Ian Dunlop</b>.

A pox on all your houses — time for something new

Environment

Dec 01, 2009

1

The glow around the Rudd Government at the Bali climate change conference is dimming by the day and there is now a danger that the diplomatic cachet that Kyoto ratification brought will be dissipated by the time the prime minister arrives.

Ratified recalcitrants: our gloss comes off in Bali

Politics

Dec 10, 2007

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