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Australians think electric vehicles are too expensive to buy and charging infrastructure is too limited, a study has found. It comes despite EV sales rising once again in the first quarter of 2024, increasing by 46.4 per cent compared to the same period last year and accounting for 8.3 per cent of all new vehicle deliveries.
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Thousands of Australians Receive $21 Million in Back-Pay from Insurance Australia GroupInsurance Australia Group (IAG) has paid out a $21 million sum to thousands of Australian employees who were underpaid over a 10-year period. The company flagged mass underpayments and has warned all corporate boards to improve their payment processes.
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Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study findsResearchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions as promised
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Global heating could cause an extra 1.2m lamb deaths in Australia each year, study findsUniversity of Adelaide study finds potential lamb deaths from heat stress could increase from 2.1m to 3.3m per year under a 3C rise
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Australia among hotspots for toxic ‘forever chemicals’, study of PFAS levels findsAustralian limits on acceptable levels of these toxic chemicals in drinking water ‘orders of magnitude’ higher than in US
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Australia should prepare for 20-year megadroughts as the climate crisis worsens, study findsClimate modelling by the Australian National University found Australia has experienced megadroughts every 150 to 1,000 years and is due for another
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Climate change threatens Australia's net zero goal, study findsIntensifying extreme heat and drought due to climate change will make Australia’s soil a net emitter of carbon dioxide, impeding the country from reaching its climate goals, new analysis has found.
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