a few salient points from the article

To play our part in limiting global warming, Australia needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Progress is stalling: last year, national emissions fell slightly (0.6%) below 2023 levels but were still higher than in 2022. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions per person remain among the highest in the world.

We fly & drive big cars to travel, we’re wealthy and consume. We build no intercity passenger rails instead ,making it easier to fly (new rail one to Melb Airport, expanding Brisbane Airport etc) when we should be shit canning flying, at least domestically.

Even the new inland rail ends which are supposed to help with road safety, road maintenance cost and reduce road emissions, end in the outer suburbs before it even gets to the port of Brisbane and has no spur to Gladstone.

Everything we do is ass backwards so its not surprising

Then we have

Biodiversity loss remains an urgent issue. The national threatened species list grew by 41 species in 2024. While this figure is much lower than the record of 130 species added in 2023, it remains well above the long-term average of 25 species added per year.

More than half of the newly listed or uplisted species were directly affected by the Black Summer fires. Meanwhile, habitat destruction and invasive species continue to put pressure on native ecosystems and species.