Inside the blueprint
The extra funds, to be unveiled in Tuesday’s budget, will bring to $633m the money being spent on NSW’s strategy aimed at ensuring half of all car sales by 2030-31 are electric. The NSW government will invest $38m to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles by building more charging sites, including for apartment buildings and roadsides. Vanuatu wants the world’s highest court to issue an advisory opinion on the climate crisis.
Photograph: Ginny Stein/The GuardianĪustralia’s new Labor government has been called on to prove its commitment to climate action and support for Pacific countries by backing a campaign led by Vanuatu to change international law to recognise climate change harm. AustraliaĪ drone shot of the island of Rah, in the Banks group of islands in Vanuatu’s far north. Ex-justice department lawyers say revelations at the hearings increase the likelihood that Trump will be charged with crimes involving conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding or defrauding the US, as he took desperate and seemingly illegal steps to undermine Biden’s election. The searing testimony and growing evidence about Donald Trump’s central role in a multipronged conspiracy to overturn Joe Biden’s election in 2020 presented at the House January 6 committee’s first three hearings has increased the odds that Trump will face criminal charges, former DoJ prosecutors and officials say. Sydney City Crime, the firm representing the protesters, said police had no legal basis for being on the property. Police deployed in significant numbers to a property at Colo after a confrontation with Blockade Australia, a group that caused blockades at Port Botany, the city’s major port, in March. NSW police officers “feared for their lives” during a raid on a group of climate protesters in north-west Sydney yesterday, alleging the group was planning “extreme forms” of protest and acted aggressively towards them.