The Opportunity

For over a decade, Australia's climate debate has been tethered to the trauma of 2013, when the federal Coalition prosecuted a highly effective campaign against the Gillard-Rudd governments’ carbon price, branding it a ‘great big tax on everything’. The Coalition won the subsequent election, and ever since the prevailing orthodoxy in Canberra has been that carbon pricing is a third-rail issue...

In February 2024, Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims took the stage at the National Press Club to propose a new approach to pricing carbon pollution – one grounded in economic efficiency and fairness, designed to make major polluters pay, strengthen the federal budget, and better position Australia for the industries of the future. Two years on, the need for action has only grown clearer. Rising fiscal and...

In this debut episode of The Opportunity , we take you inside the recent World Economic Forum / First Movers’ Coalition Green Iron Summit in Adelaide, co-hosted by Greenhouse and supported by Boundless Earth. The summit brought together government, industry, and finance leaders from across the Asia-Pacific to explore how South Australia can position itself as a first-mover hub for green iron produ...