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Maurice Newman

November 2018

  • Crowd at Warringah GetUp event

    'This is the moment': activists warm to the task of ousting Tony Abbott

    More than 600 people attend meeting organised by GetUp in Warringah, as a rival rightwing group announces its arrival

April 2016

  • Maurice Newman

    Maurice Newman claims to be head of business council disbanded by Turnbull

    Former adviser to Tony Abbott says Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘left leaning positions’ could lead to formation of breakaway conservative party

December 2015

  • Maurice Newman

    Climate sceptic Maurice Newman says world leaders embracing junk science

  • Lenore Taylor

    Lenore Taylor on politics
    A year in Australian politics: after a steady drumbeat of fear, 2015 ends on hopeful note

    Lenore Taylor

September 2015

  • Maurice Newman

    Climate sceptic Maurice Newman not reappointed as government adviser

    Newman, whose term as chairman of PM’s business advisory council has expired, repeatedly questioned climate science in columns for the Australian

June 2015

  • Sturt Daley, site manager, at the top of a wind turbine at Capital wind farm in Bungendore, Australia.

    Tony Abbott's boast of windfarm cuts contradicts earlier stand on renewables

    Speaking to Sydney radio host Alan Jones, the prime minister took credit for cutting the growth of wind power, confirming a view many had long suspected

May 2015

  • Graham Readfearn

    Planet Oz
    Freedom and liberty should not be red flags for climate science denial, but they are

    Graham Readfearn
  • Maurice Newman

    Australia PM's adviser: climate change is UN hoax to create new world order

February 2015

  • Maurice Newman, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's top business advisor, thinks human caused climate change is a myth.

    Planet Oz
    Climate science denialists in tailspin over hottest years

    Graham Readfearn: Tony Abbott’s top business advisor wrongly claims a UK charity had blamed the deaths of elderly people on renewable energy policies

November 2014

  • Maurice Newman, the climate science denying business advisor to Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

    Planet Oz
    Playing whack-a-mole with Australian adviser's climate change myths

    Graham Readfearn: Maurice Newman, business adviser to Australia’s prime minister, pops up with a litany of climate change myths and misrepresentations

January 2014

  • Maurice Newman

    Southern crossroads
    Tony Abbott's new year's resolution: disavow climate change extremist Maurice Newman

  • A penguin looks at the MV Akademik Shokalskiy carrying the  Australasian Antarctic Expedition while stuck in pack ice off Cape de la Motte in the Southern Ocean, East Antarctica.

    Australia, 'hostage to climate change madness'? To say so is madness indeed

    Giles Parkinson

June 2013

  • Maurice Newman

    Abbott business advisor threatens to sue farmer if windfarm does him harm

    Maurice Newman, chairman of Coalition's proposed business advisory council, sends legal warning over windfarm

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