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  Victorian ministers urge climate activists to cancel protest on high fire danger day

  

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  Emergency services minister says it’s ‘reckless and selfish’ to rally when police are busy in bushfire-affected communitiesTwo senior Victorian ministers have endorsed a police call for climate activists to abandon a planned protest on the state’s next high fire danger day.The demonstration has been set down for Friday night in Melbourne’s CBD in response to the bushfires, which have blackened more than 1.2m hectares of Victoria. Continue reading...

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  Climate summit calls for urgent action after Australia's fire-hit summer

  

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  Forceful declaration calls for governments to set short-term zero emissions target to avoid catastrophic warmingThe megafires...

  Forceful declaration calls for governments to set short-term zero emissions target to avoid catastrophic warmingThe megafires of Australia’s summer “are a harbinger of life and death on a hotter Earth”, a climate summit has said in a forceful declaration for urgent and dramatic climate action.The Climate Emergency Summit, held in Melbourne this week and of which Guardian Australia was a partner, released a declaration...

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  Coalition MPs split over Scott Morrison's apparent shift on climate policy

  

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  Moderate Liberals seize on PM’s comments to argue the government will do more to cut emissions...

  Moderate Liberals seize on PM’s comments to argue the government will do more to cut emissions but conservatives push backModerate Liberals have seized on Scott Morrison’s apparent shift on climate change policy to argue the government will do more to cut emissions, as some conservatives push back against any “symbolism” that could damage the economy.In a sign of the challenge facing the prime minister...

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  Scott Morrison suffers blow to personal approval rating in first poll of 2020

  

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  Newspoll shows eight-point drop in prime minister’s favourability rating after widespread criticism of his handling of...

  Newspoll shows eight-point drop in prime minister’s favourability rating after widespread criticism of his handling of the bushfires Scott Morrison has suffered a massive hit to his personal approval rating and been overtaken as preferred prime minister by Anthony Albanese in the first published opinion poll of 2020.The Newspoll, published on Monday, confirms that a horror summer in which Morrison chose to holiday in...

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