Under the cover of coronavirus, the right-of-centre Australian government want to funnel clean energy funding into climate-wrecking fossil fuels, sabotaging Australia’s world-leading renewable energy innovation to prop up dirty power.
The government is trying to sneak through changes that would force Australia's clean energy agencies to fund coal and gas projects.1
Australia is the leading coal exporting country in the world, accounting for 29% of the world's total coal exports. The coal industry wields enormous influence on Australian politics. In 2018 Germany imported about 5.2 million tonnes of coal from Australia.
