Tag: Floods

Australia: More Money and More Fossil Fuels after Floods

Taylor’s latest $50m gas subsidy splurge deplored as “slap in the face for flood victims”

Morrison government pours more money into the gas industry, defying calls for Australia to stop the expansion of fossil fuel industries.

Scott Morrison says coal power stations should ‘run as long as they possibly can’

Prime minister says it would be ‘fine’ for private sector to build new coal power plants if commercially viable

“Stupid investment”: UN chief slams coal and Australia in extraordinary climate speech

UN chief Antonio Guterres slams Australia as a climate “hold out” and labels coal a “stupid investment”.

What caused the ‘rain bomb’? How the unprecedented Queensland and NSW 2022 floods unfolded

The damage was much worse than predicted. So how did it come about, and how does it compare to the 2011 Brisbane disaster?

Record flooding in Australia driven by La Niña and climate change

A slow-moving low-pressure system has dropped 790 millimetres of rain on Brisbane in one week, causing floods that have claimed eight lives

Make no mistake: these floods are climate change playing out in real time

Australians face the cascading and compounding impacts of natural disasters, but also the risk that we will not adapt fast enough.