Energy in Australia describes energy and electricity production, consumption and export in Australia. Energy policy of Australia describes the politics of Australia related to energy.
Australia is a net energy exporter. Australia was the fourth top coal producer in the world 2009. According to James Hansen the single most important action needed to tackle the climate crisis is to reduce CO2 emissions from coal.
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“A government deriving its energy from the will of the society, and operating, by the reason of its measures, on the understanding and interest of the society ... is the government for which philosophy has been searching and humanity been fighting from the most remote ages ... which it is the glory of America to have invented, and her unrivalled happiness to possess.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
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—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)