Belinda Noble
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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So, you see, these are companies that are actively extracting fossil fuels.
And obviously, we would argue these programs are a way of maintaining their social licence.
influencing the next generation and normalising what is an incredibly dangerous polluting activity.
Yeah, this is something that we're more surprised by.
So we have fossil fuel companies sponsoring teacher education programs.
One even has two Woodside members on its board, and they produce education materials for teachers that teachers then take into the classroom.
And again, as you can imagine, they're fairly favourable to extraction.
They're fairly favourable in showing that coal, oil and gas companies are future focused and, you know, greening their operations.
But there's less information about the damage that they're doing and the fact that we need to phase those products out in order to have a safe climate.
In the materials that we found, fossil fuel extraction is presented as inevitable.
Climate action is presented as an individual action or something that can be solved by technical fixes.
They do mention climate change.
They do, some of them say that coal and gas create climate change, but it's a very narrow focus.
They're not mentioning that solar is cheaper than coal.
They're not mentioning that electric vehicles are better for the planet than diesel vehicles.
You know what I mean?
So it doesn't give the broad view that you would expect in a scientific education.
Yeah, and in particular in the communities where extractions are a large part of the economy, these companies are so embedded in institutions to the point where we have fossil fuel corporations co-sponsoring state government education programs and BHP co-sponsors education in the Pilbara to the point of $40 million.
but we believe it's something that really has to change if we're going to change the economy, move to a clean economy, take the advantages that are presented by moving to renewables in Australia.
How are kids going to do that if all they're taught about is how great coal and gas is?
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