The Albanese government and the top end carbon bomb – podcast
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The Albanese government has committed $1.5bn to Darwin harbour’s Middle Arm precinct – a project that has been sold as ‘sustainable’ and a contributor to ‘decarbonisation’. But some environmental and Indigenous groups are concerned that Middle Arm, far from promoting sustainability, is simply a vast fossil fuel project that will lock Australia into gas production for 50 more years and endanger priceless Indigenous rock art.
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