This submission to the Climate Change Authority is in relation to their review of the NGER Act 2007. It strongly recommends the replacement of present methane reporting methods for open cut coal mines by direct measurement at the mine surface.

This submission to the Climate Change Authority is in response to their consultation paper of August 2023. A microsimulation model should be created for each Safeguard facility, reflecting its resources, profitability and abatement costs. Climate change projections should be used to model the growth or decline of regional industries.

This submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is in response to their Safeguard Mechanism production variables consultation.

This submission to the Climate Change Authority is in response to their issues paper of May 18 2023.

This submission to the Climate Change Authority is in response to their issues paper of May 18 2023. It notes that methane emissions from open cut mines appear to be strongly underestimated, and suggests that open cut coal mines should be required to measure their emissions directly.

More information is needed on the regional consequences of Australia’s climate policies. Annual changes to Safeguard rules are likely to be more effective. Heavy use of ACCUs may occur by fossil fuel producers. Any use of ACCUs to offset methane emissions will result in many years of global warming before the offsetting cooling occurs.

The Safeguard Mechanism controls the 200 largest greenhouse gas emitters in Australia. A detailed national plan is needed to reduce their emissions, taking into account their locations. This would allow grants to be directed more effectively, with new industries replacing old ones, and with lower impacts on communities.

Renewable generators and storage can be built within a year. A faster transition to fully renewable electricity would reduce the severe price fluctuations affecting providers and consumers. The Australian Energy Management Operator should be asked to design a scenario which brings forward generator, storage and network investments as quickly as possible.

The government has accepted a recommendation that aged care monitoring and reporting systems move progressively to real-time and automated reporting within five years.

Some aspects of health, such as temperature and motion, can be measured by many different devices. Research is needed into the cost, reliability and acceptability of alternative devices.

Technological advances have made it possible to automatically monitor many aspects of aged care quality.

Outcome data should be provided to regulators frequently, at low cost, and with very little opportunity for fraud by the regulated. This should allow quick intervention by regulators.

Better care for the aged should result.

Viability supplements to regional and remote providers should be greatly increased.

Aged care should be based on reliable data, shared between consumers, providers, regulators and researchers.

Improving satisfaction levels suggest that providers are finding ways to artificially improve responses.

People often choose to move long distances into aged care homes, but have little information to help them.

Provided consumers are well-informed about quality and financial stability, reducing locational controls is a good idea.

Much more work is needed before a new residential aged care funding model can be safely introduced.

Complex structures increase the risks of provider failures, and make it impossible to judge profitability and capital adequacy.