Again, Labor has voted with the Liberals to give public money to a gas corporation.
This $32 million handout is a total rejection of not only climate science, but Labor\u2019s own publicly stated position that coal and gas projects must stand up on their own economically.
This afternoon Labor passed the Industry Research and Development (Golden Beach Gas Storage Acceleration Program) Instrument, a hangover from the previous Morrison Liberal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, Labor has voted with the Liberals to give public money to a gas corporation. This $32 million handout is a total rejection of not only climate science, but Labor\u2019s own publicly stated position that coal and gas projects must stand up on their own economically. This afternoon Labor passed the Industry Research and Development … Continue reading “LABOR\u2019S GAS HANDOUTS ERODE THEIR COP31 CHANCES”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cLabor must stop handing out fossil fuel subsidies. <\/em>
\u201cCOP27 highlighted the need to stop building our reliance on fossil fuels, yet Labor refuses to listen to the science and the global call to action. <\/em>
\u201cWhile Labor is lying to the world about its climate credentials, they\u2019re showing the Australian people and our Pacific neighbours their real priorities. <\/em>
\u201cLabor cares more about their fossil fuel mates more than the rest of humanity.<\/em>
\u201cThe government has committed to meeting their Paris Agreement commitments, with this instrument they\u2019ve failed their own test.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"