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Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

The COP climate talks have slowed heating, but as Chris Bowen prepares to lead the next negotiations, they are becoming ever more brutal.

23.11.2025 8

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

The COP climate talks have slowed heating, but as Chris Bowen prepares to lead the next negotiations, they are becoming ever more brutal.

23.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

The COP climate talks have slowed heating, but as Chris Bowen prepares to lead the next negotiations, they are becoming ever more brutal.

23.11.2025 7

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

Ugly final hours of talks highlight just how difficult Chris Bowen’s new gig will be

The COP climate talks have slowed heating, but as Chris Bowen prepares to lead the next negotiations, they are becoming ever more brutal.

23.11.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

There are many authors of Australia’s failure to win the right to host a COP for the Pacific. They are not all in Canberra.

20.11.2025 10

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

There are many authors of Australia’s failure to win the right to host a COP for the Pacific. They are not all in Canberra.

20.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

There are many authors of Australia’s failure to win the right to host a COP for the Pacific. They are not all in Canberra.

20.11.2025 10

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

There are many authors of Australia’s failure to win the right to host a COP for the Pacific. They are not all in Canberra.

20.11.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Mixed messages from Australia are not making Bowen’s job any easier. But walking away from this fight will weaken the government and harm our links...

19.11.2025 10

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Mixed messages from Australia are not making Bowen’s job any easier. But walking away from this fight will weaken the government and harm our links...

19.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Mixed messages from Australia are not making Bowen’s job any easier. But walking away from this fight will weaken the government and harm our links...

19.11.2025 10

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Albanese has cut Australia’s COP bid off at the knees; has anyone told Bowen?

Mixed messages from Australia are not making Bowen’s job any easier. But walking away from this fight will weaken the government and harm our links...

19.11.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

The Coalition’s abandonment of credible climate policy has far more to do with virtue-signalling than it does with climate science or economics.

13.11.2025 4

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

The Coalition’s abandonment of credible climate policy has far more to do with virtue-signalling than it does with climate science or economics.

13.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

The Coalition’s abandonment of credible climate policy has far more to do with virtue-signalling than it does with climate science or economics.

13.11.2025 10

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

The Coalition’s abandonment of credible climate policy has far more to do with virtue-signalling than it does with climate science or economics.

13.11.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

It starts with great news – but it gets worse. And in Brazil, world leaders hope progress can be accelerated on slowing a catastrophe.

09.11.2025 5

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

It starts with great news – but it gets worse. And in Brazil, world leaders hope progress can be accelerated on slowing a catastrophe.

09.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

It starts with great news – but it gets worse. And in Brazil, world leaders hope progress can be accelerated on slowing a catastrophe.

09.11.2025 8

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?

It starts with great news – but it gets worse. And in Brazil, world leaders hope progress can be accelerated on slowing a catastrophe.

09.11.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

No, Australia is not ‘streaking ahead’ of other nations on climate

We checked the Nationals’ claim that Australia is reducing emissions much faster than its peers.

04.11.2025 9

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

No, Australia is not ‘streaking ahead’ of other nations on climate

We checked the Nationals’ claim that Australia is reducing emissions much faster than its peers.

04.11.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

No, Australia is not ‘streaking ahead’ of other nations on climate

We checked the Nationals’ claim that Australia is reducing emissions much faster than its peers.

04.11.2025 10

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

No, Australia is not ‘streaking ahead’ of other nations on climate

We checked the Nationals’ claim that Australia is reducing emissions much faster than its peers.

04.11.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

The world is better off for Bill Gates, the climate debate may not be

Bill Gates has raised eyebrows with a blog post professing an optimistic outlook on climate change.

29.10.2025 4

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

The world is better off for Bill Gates, the climate debate may not be

Bill Gates has raised eyebrows with a blog post professing an optimistic outlook on climate change.

29.10.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

The world is better off for Bill Gates, the climate debate may not be

Bill Gates has raised eyebrows with a blog post professing an optimistic outlook on climate change.

29.10.2025 5

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

The world is better off for Bill Gates, the climate debate may not be

Bill Gates has raised eyebrows with a blog post professing an optimistic outlook on climate change.

29.10.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

Climate scientists had a savage verdict for Australia’s target, but the government is standing firm

The tragedy for Australia is that both Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen and his critics may be right as the gap between the necessary and possible...

18.09.2025 4

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Climate scientists had a savage verdict for Australia’s target, but the government is standing firm

The tragedy for Australia is that both Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen and his critics may be right as the gap between the necessary and possible...

18.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

Climate scientists had a savage verdict for Australia’s target, but the government is standing firm

The tragedy for Australia is that both Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen and his critics may be right as the gap between the necessary and possible...

18.09.2025 10

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

Climate scientists had a savage verdict for Australia’s target, but the government is standing firm

The tragedy for Australia is that both Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen and his critics may be right as the gap between the necessary and possible...

18.09.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

Horrifying report paints grim picture of Australia’s future

The Albanese government’s Climate Risk Assessment report makes for horrifying reading – and makes clear the very real implications of inaction.

15.09.2025 2

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Horrifying report paints grim picture of Australia’s future

The Albanese government’s Climate Risk Assessment report makes for horrifying reading – and makes clear the very real implications of inaction.

15.09.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

Horrifying report paints grim picture of Australia’s future

The Albanese government’s Climate Risk Assessment report makes for horrifying reading – and makes clear the very real implications of inaction.

15.09.2025 4

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

Horrifying report paints grim picture of Australia’s future

The Albanese government’s Climate Risk Assessment report makes for horrifying reading – and makes clear the very real implications of inaction.

15.09.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

A promise kept: The risky creation of the Great Koala National Park

Advocates for the new national park on the Mid North Coast will be relieved that the full 176,000 hectares of state forest will be included, but the...

07.09.2025 10

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

A promise kept: The risky creation of the Great Koala National Park

Advocates for the new national park on the Mid North Coast will be relieved that the full 176,000 hectares of state forest will be included, but the...

07.09.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

A promise kept: The risky creation of the Great Koala National Park

Advocates for the new national park on the Mid North Coast will be relieved that the full 176,000 hectares of state forest will be included, but the...

07.09.2025 10

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

A promise kept: The risky creation of the Great Koala National Park

Advocates for the new national park on the Mid North Coast will be relieved that the full 176,000 hectares of state forest will be included, but the...

07.09.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare

Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying is intensifying.

30.07.2025 7

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare

Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying is intensifying.

30.07.2025 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare

Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying is intensifying.

30.07.2025 7

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare

Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying is intensifying.

30.07.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

25.07.2025 3

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

25.07.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

25.07.2025 9

The Age

Nick O&x27Malley

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

25.07.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Nick O&x27Malley

Trump’s big toxic bill will cost America – and the world

The US president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” won’t just undo many positive developments for the environment – the economic fallout will be significant too.

14.07.2025 10

WA Today

Nick O&x27Malley

Trump’s big toxic bill will cost America – and the world

The US president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” won’t just undo many positive developments for the environment – the economic fallout will be significant too.

14.07.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick O&x27Malley