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While the result of the weekend’s Federal election remains unclear, a cleaner economy and a healthy environment have emerged as the clear winners.

Long-term trends, recent polls and the unprecedented Greens share of the national vote all confirm the strong public appetite to shift Australia to a cleaner economy.

People want
clean energy to be cheaper, faster, and they will support the leaders
that make it happen.

Seventy-six per cent

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The climate change measures announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard today are too slow and not equal to the scale of the problem, the Australian Conservation Foundation said.

“The approach outlined by the Prime Minister this morning is a slow way to address the urgent problem of climate change,” said ACF Executive Director Don Henry.

“Labor will have to deliver much more before Australians can have confidence that our pollution levels will stop going up and start going down.… Continue

A new survey has found that more than 65% of Australians think that both Labor and the Coalition are the same on climate change. The results show that Australians are increasingly worried about climate change and are looking to our political parties for real action to reduce pollution.

“Australians voted for action on climate change in the last election and they are still waiting. Either major party stands to gain support by having credible p

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The passage of the amended renewable energy target legislation will drive serious investment in renewable energy, the Australian Conservation Foundation said.

The Government will administer the renewable energy target (RET) in two parts – a large-scale component will cover big projects like wind farms, while a small-scale component will deliver the remainder of the target via technologies like rooftop solar panels and solar hot water systems.

The amendments to the RET were nece… Continue