On profit vs. planet: Quarterly Essay 99

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Why is Australia doubling down on fossil fuels A story of power and influence, pollution and protest. The world may have committed to curbing fossil-fuel use in the 2030s, but Australia's fossil-fuel giants have doubled down. They have plans for increased production into the 2070s. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give. In this ground-breaking essay, Marian Wilkinson reveals the ways of corporate power and investigates the new face of protest and disruption. The stakes could not be higher.

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Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist and a reporter at ABC TV's Four Corners. She has been a foreign correspondent and deputy editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and an executive producer of Four Corners. Her books include The Fixer, Dark Victory (with David Marr) and The Carbon Club.