Woolworths and Big W will soon no longer offer shoppers reusable plastic bags in stores, with the company announcing this morning it plans to phase them out gradually as part of a sustainability push. plastic plasticbags woolworths bigw
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has faced questions about the rising cost of utilities and the energy supply challenges at an appearance on Nine’s. He was making his weekly appearance with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, and the interaction turned into a bit of a blame game.He was asked whether the government would consider ramping up coal-fired power production to cover the current gas shortage.
But Dutton defended the Morrison government’s expenditure on renewables and said Labor had to confront the reality that they had no solution. I think the Government has to take responsibility for what is a serious issue. [...] It seems to me that the inexperienced of both Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen is shining through. They have got the ability and the legislation there to deal with this. And they don’t know what they should do.
“In relation to the Pacific Island forum, that is the architecture that is by which the region has dealt with its issues. It’s the architecture that the forum is the way by which the Pacific has dealt with both internal and external issues that needed to be managed. That is the reason why the first visit I made was to Fiji and the first speech I gave in the Pacific was at the Pacific Island Forum, which is a signal about the importance Australia places on that regional architecture.
“We have an interest in a world a way of trade and economic engagement is open is free and is predicated on rules, predictable rules and norms. The concern that Australia has raised about the Chinese economic measures against Australia is that they undermine that principle.
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