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👉 SOURCES
🔹Parents for Climate v EnergyAustralia case: https://equitygenerationlawyers.com/case/ap4ca-v-energyaustralia/
🔹Energy Australia apology and admission about offsets being Bullshit™: https://www.energyaustralia.com.au/about-us/media/news/go-neutral-litigation-energyaustralia-acknowledges-issues-offsetting-and-moves
🔹Woodside North West Shelf offsets 100% of its Safeguard obligations (by Ketan Joshi): https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-safeguard-mechanism-helps-gas-companies-take-the-piss/
🔹The BHP Files: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/bhp-diesel-trucks-pilbara-australia-mining-climate-pollution
🔹 NSW Labor promises Great Koala National Park if elected (2015): https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/19/nsw-labor-leader-luke-foley-promises--koala-national-park
🔹NSW Labor promises GKNP if elected (2023): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-19/labor-great-koala-park-national-plan-grafton-to-kempsey/101871048
🔹NSW Labor govt announces it will only create GKNP if it can use it to sell offsets (ACCUs) to polluters: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/accus-policy-great-koala-national-park
🔹Bob Debus (fmr. NSW Environment Minister in the Bob Carr government) article: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260806-we-can-do-better-for-our-forests-than-the-infm-method
🔹Sue Arnold, Independent Australia, "Carbon credit offset scheme holds koala park to ransom": https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/carbon-credit-offset-scheme-holds-koala-park-to-ransom,21421
🔹 ABC, "New fight over carbon credits" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3M7UXSzTCc
🔹"Koalas for Coal" (detailed by excellent report by Fergus Green): https://cdn.australiainstitute.org.au/2026/08/18030212/P2074-Koalas-for-coal-how-the-INMF-method-ties-koalas-and-fossil-fuel-Web.pdf
🔹GKNP already budgeted: https://thepoint.com.au/factchecks/260821-factcheck-is-koala-protection-in-nsw-dependent-on-money-from-carbon-offsets
🔹More on NSW budgeting for GKNP: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260904-great-koala-national-park-dependent-on-carbon-offsets-but-taxpayers-will-pay-95-of-cost
🔹SMH, "Civil war inside the environment movement" https://www.smh.com.au/national/defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-civil-war-inside-the-environment-movement-20260806-p60lz4.html
🔹California offset program up in flames: https://carbonplan.org/research/buffer-pool-burning
👉 FURTHER READING
🔹This article presents views from both proponents and critics of the INFM method: https://www.catholloway.com/damned-divided/
🔹David Lyndenmayer in defense of the INFM: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08/why-i-support-a-carbon-method-for-limiting-the-emissions-from-native-forest-logging/
🔹Parents for Climate on landmark case against Energy Australia: https://www.parentsforclimate.org/landmark_greenwashing_legal_case
🔹Michael West Media on the Govt scrapping its "ClimateActive" carbon neutral scheme: https://michaelwest.com.au/climate-active-safeguard-mechanism/
🔹Parents for Climate on ClimateActive: https://www.parentsforclimate.org/win_for_parents_who_fought_greenwashing
🔹Richard Denniss, "Will Labor stop the fakery of carbon offsets?" https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2026/08/08/will-labor-stop-fakery-carbon-offsets
🔹Sue Arnold, Independent Australia, "Forest carbon scheme puts Great Koala National Park at risk" https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/forest-carbon-scheme-puts-great-koala-national-park-at-risk,21405
🔹Great example of Bullshit™ journalism "Why is The Australia Institute opposing saving the forests?" https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/why-is-the-australia-institute-opposing-saving-the-forests-20260809-p60mo5
🔹The Safeguard Mechanism: https://cdn.australiainstitute.org.au/2026/06/18025505/P2030-Safeguarding-the-Fossil-Fuel-Industry.pdf
🔹"Free Ride", Climate Council: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/free-ride-how-our-biggest-polluters-are-dodging-their-fair-share/
👉 Related HGAs we made:
🔹Safeguard Mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrkE_VaMD4k
🔹Carbon credits (prev govt): https://youtu.be/iCRDseUEEsg?si=dHGSgXcM_J_83DNy
🔹Kyoto credits (prev govt): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92t8np88fEI
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