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'Not too late': Australians develop carbon model with DiCaprio's helpRenewable energy can supplant fossil fuels across the global economy, with Australia among the three regions best-placed to benefit because of its rich solar and wind resources.
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Fijian Prime Minister urges Australia to put climate action before industry | Sky News AustraliaFiji's Prime Minister has used a state dinner to pressure Australia to stand committed to serious action on climate change.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has been sent a clear message while on a brief tour of the Pacific.\n\nFrank Bainimarama says Australia must honour its commitments to clean energy, warning no sole industry should take precedence over climate action.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Interests of the region come before coal-fired power industry: Fiji PM | Sky News AustraliaFiji's Prime Minister has told Prime Minister Scott Morrison that Australia must shift away from fossil fuels in the interests of the region.\n\nPrime Minister Frank Bainimarama stressed the importance of the issue of climate change and clean energy at a State dinner held for Mr Morrison.\n\nMr Bainimarama has long campaigned for more action on climate change, something Prime Minister Morrison commended him on for his global leadership.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Labor wants to make Qld 'ground zero' for hydrogen tech | Sky News AustraliaLabor has committed $3 million to transform the Queensland town of Gladstone into the 'National Hydrogen Innovation Hub', a policy that is hoped would help curb the region’s high unemployment rate. \n\nOpposition Leader Bill Shorten says he has a vision of using hydrogen as one of Australia’s energy sources and exports, the 'equivalent of LNG 2.0'. \n\nThe investment would form part of a Federal Labor plan to inject more than $1 billion into a National Hydrogen Plan to make Australia a ‘world leader’ in the hydrogen industry. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n
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'Lack of detail' found in Great Barrier Reef foundation grant | Sky News AustraliaIn a new report, the Auditor-General said the department’s advice that led to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s $443 million grant lacked detail on criteria and desired outcomes.\n\nThe Foundation was given the controversial funds by the Turnbull Government last year without soliciting it or going through a competitive tender process.\n\nOpposition leader Bill Shorten said the findings are scandalous and that the process was not best practice by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, then Treasurer Scott Morrison and then Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg.
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