Move on from coal power

NATIONAL Party members Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan want to take our tax dollars away from education, health and pensions to build a new coal power station.

The banks won’t touch new coal power because renewable power with storage is cheaper to build and will give cheaper power bills in the long run.

The carbon emissions of coal power are causing extreme rainfall events, mega -fires, a progressively drier climate in southern Australia and higher insurance costs in North Queensland due to increased cyclone risks.

National MPs Joyce and Canavan should be thinking about all Australians and developing a fully-funded long-term strategy to support coal communities away from coal and pursue cheaper electricity production in renewables for a zero emission future.

Peter Taylor, Trinity Beach 1978: A bomb explodes outside Sydney’s Hilton Hotel, venue of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting, killing two garbage collectors and a policeman.

2002: Queen Elizabeth bestows an honorary knighthood on former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, for his role in bolstering his city after the September 11 attacks.

2008: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (above) makes a formal apology to the Aboriginal people and the stolen generation.

2017: Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, smeared with a nerve agent by two women who claim they were paid to carry out a prank.

2019: Former One Nation senator Brian Burston launches legal action following a physical clash with Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff James Ashby.