The secret funding of the Heartland Institute once again focuses attention on the financing of the Institute of Public Affairs and particularly its sustained attacks on climate science and all policies aimed at cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Despite its refusal to divulge, we can make a good guess at where a large part of its recent funding has come from—right-wing mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. ABC The Drum, 24 February 2012
Australians are bracing for climate collapse—and it’s rewriting politics
A new study indicates that anxiety about social and economic collapse due to climate change is pervasive in Australia. The nationwide survey (commissioned by the