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Media Release: Parents: Climate risk report is a red alert for our children’s safety – but the worst can still be avoided with bold 2035 action

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DATE: 15 September 2025   Today’s National Climate Risk Assessment is a stark warning for Australian families. It confirms what parents have long feared in our bones: climate change is putting the very systems that support our lives at risk – from our health and food to housing, social cohesion, economic shocks and national security. Parents … Continued

National Climate Risk Assessment makes clear the need for a Climate Compensation Fund for community resilience and adaptation investment: Make Big Polluters Pay Alliance

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Climate disaster survivors have labelled the current ‘Disaster Ready Fund’ as deeply inadequate and are calling for a massively scaled up Climate Compensation Fund in response to the release of the National Climate Risk Assessment and National Climate Adaptation Plan today, which we welcome. The Assessment found there is greater risk of “compounding, cascading and … Continued

Media Release: Bushfire survivors react to devastating Climate Risk Assessment – call for stronger climate targets and a levy on big polluters

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15 September 2025   BUSHFIRE SURVIVORS FOR CLIMATE ACTION (BSCA) has spoken out in response to the release of the National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) today, urging the Albanese Government to set 2035 climate target strong enough to save lives, and to fund the vast costs of climate adaptation by making coal and gas corporations … Continued

Frightening forecast demands a serious 2035 target

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The National Climate Risk Assessment, two years in the making and released today, paints a picture of a profoundly altered Australia and its dire warnings demand an emergency response from the Albanese government, the Australian Conservation Foundation said. The assessment analyses 11 priority risks under three scenarios: 1.5°C, 2°C and 3°C. (The Climate Action Tracker … Continued

Media Release: Dire predictions on deadly heatwaves need urgent response

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15 September 2025   The release of Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) confirms what communities in hot homes and suburbs have been warning about for years: extreme heat is one of the deadliest climate risks we face, and without urgent national action, lives will be lost.   Sweltering … Continued

Former emergency leaders: National Climate Risk Assessment should set alarm bells ringing

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For Immediate Release September 14  A fuller response is also attached   38 FORMER FIRE AND EMERGENCY CHIEFS say the release of Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment, reveals extreme weather emergencies will continue to worsen without strong cuts to climate pollution.   The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action say the assessment gives a confronting … Continued

Australia can hit climate targets while slashing household bills by leaning in to electric vehicle incentives: Rewiring Australia

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Australia can hit climate targets while slashing household bills by leaning in to electric vehicle incentives: Rewiring Australia   Rewiring Australia is urging the federal government to extend and expand the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) exemption for electric vehicles, with new research showing the incentive could halve vehicle emissions over 10 years, compared with ending … Continued

Aboriginal leaders unite to push for real change on rights and justice

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Saturday, 13 September 2025          Aboriginal leaders unite to push for real change on rights and justice In a moment of deep significance, Aboriginal leaders from across public institutions and political life have come together to issue a joint statement, calling on the Australian Government to act now on long-standing commitments to First Peoples.  The … Continued