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Climate delay: how industry captured policy and cost Australia decades.

Means, Motive and Opportunity

How Australia cooked the books on climate; Vantage Point 7

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    156 pages

  • Release Date

    10 November 2026

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Summary

A generation of Australians was told that action on climate change would wreck the economy. What Australians weren’t told was that this message came from oil, gas and coal producers, and it was laundered into Australian Government policy via a little-known government agency.

With the forensic attention of true crime narratives, journalist and author Royce Kurmelovs traces the hidden history of how an obscure research bureau came to debase Australian climate policy for decades. Once a …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781764220538
ISBN-10:1764220536
Author:Royce Kurmelovs
Publisher:Black Inc.
Imprint:Australia Institute Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:156
Release Date:10 November 2026
Weight:104g
Dimensions:12mm x 112mm x 180mm
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Means, Motive and Opportunity by Royce Kurmelovs - ISBN: 9781764220538
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About The Author

Royce Kurmelovs

Royce Kurmelovs is an Australian freelance journalist and author covering the intersection of class, finance and climate change. He is the author of five books, including the best-selling Death of Holden (2016) and his most recent, the critically acclaimed Slick: Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil. His second book, Rogue Nation, used the return of One Nation to Australian politics to discuss the rise of the independents and the fracturing of Australian politics. His work has been published by Drilled, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Rolling Stone and others.

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