Have You Noticed? Australia

The Australian government promised to protect the Great Barrier Reef. Instead it handed four hundred and forty-three million dollars to a six-person charity with no tender process no scientific criteria and no mention of climate change. This is the first episode of a six-part series on how Australia destroyed one of the world greatest natural wonders.

The federal budget introduced a 2.5 cents per kilometre road user charge on electric vehicles from July 2026. The EV industry and motorists are calling it a tax on climate action - and they are right.

The government's new east coast gas reservation policy is the right move — but it's a decade late, won't deliver relief for 14 months, and the government still refuses to properly tax the gas giants who created this mess in the first place.