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Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Will growing global pressure on climate change force Australia to step up?

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US president Joe Biden held a virtual summit last week and invited dozens of countries to speak on climate change. Japan, Canada and the US were among several nations that increased their emission reduction targets for this decade, but Australia did not. Environment editor Adam Morton examines how the mounting global pressure will affect Australia’s climate policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2021/apr/27/will-growing-global-pressure-on-climate-change-force-australia-to-step-up

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Presented by Laura Murphy-Oates and reported by Adam Morton. Produced by Miles Herbert, Joe Koning and Ellen Leabeater. The executive producers are Miles Martignoni and Gabrielle Jackson

Tue 27 Apr 2021 03.30 AEST

Read more from Adam Morton on these topics here:

  • Australia has been talking up its climate credentials – but do the claims stack up?
  • Australia left behind as wealthy G20 nations pledge emissions cuts
  • Biden administration says Australia needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions sooner
US president Joe Biden at the climate change summit on 23 April
Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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