The first variation to the contract, which claimed that an “incorrect Grant value to just over $17 million, then a reduction back to the Was first published in May 2019, including an initial increase in the The grant approved for Wesfarmers has had five variations since it PM&C and Wesfarmers have both conceded to New Matilda that the grant was approved the day before the federal election. The date, showing the original approval, which was given the day before
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The publiclyĪvailable documentation now claims the grant was approved on May 20,Ģ019, the first business day after the federal election. However, shortly after New Matilda began making inquiriesĪbout the grant in mid-2019, the Department of Prime Minister andĬabinet announced five separate variations on the contract. The deal was approved on May 17, one day before the federal election. Publicly disclosed without any accompanying government announcement orįanfare, and classified as “Closed – Non-Competitive”, meaning otherĬorporations could not bid for the money. In May 2018, just two weeks after the federal election. The explosive details are contained in a grant published by the Morrison government Which revealed the IAS still has no effective framework in place toĮvaluate any outcomes, despite expending more than $5 billion over fiveįormer Minister for Sports, Bridget McKenzie, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and embattled Energy Minister Angus Taylor. Just one month after the contract was approved, the IAS was the focus of fresh damning revelations – an Australian National Audit Office report Click here to chip in through Paypal, or you can click here to access our GoFundMe campaign. The government grant came from through the controversial IndigenousĪdvancement Strategy (IAS), the Morrison government’s main AboriginalĪffairs funding pool, which has been the subject of numerousīE PART OF THE SOLUTION: WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP NEW MATILDA ALIVE. Record half-yearly profit of $4.5 billion. Wesfarmers, at one time the wealthiest corporation in the country – announced a
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Just three months earlier, that political donor – retail giant Government gave more than $15 million to one of its biggest political donors,įrom funding set aside to alleviate grinding Aboriginal poverty. The day before the 2019 federal election, the Morrison Late as 24 hours before the election was held.
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It also paid off major political donors, and it did so as Just restrict its last-minute election spending splurge to marginalĮlectorates. With the resignation over the weekend of Cabinet Minister Bridget But theyĪlso found that there is abundant space to restore millions of acres ofĪdditional forests, not counting urban and agricultural land.ĭON’T MISS ANYTHING! ONE CLICK TO GET NEW MATILDA DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX, FREE! STORY UPDATED*, February 3, 2020: There’s blood in the water Trees on Earth - seven times more than previous estimates. World and satellite images, the scientists estimate there are 3 trillion Trees are “our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change,” Crowther told The Independent.Ĭombining forest inventory data from 1.2 million locations around the One of the most effective ways to reduce greenhouse gases. The CO2 storage capacity to cancel out a decade of carbon dioxideĮmissions, according to a new analysis by ecologist Thomas Crowther and colleagues at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university.Īt this year’s American Association for the Advancement of ScienceĬonference in Washington, D.C., argues that planting additional trees is There is enough room in the world’s existing parks, forests, andĪbandoned land to plant 1.2 trillion additional trees, which would have
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