16-18 August 2019, Kildara Centre, Rear 41 Stanhope St., Malvern VIC. Guest speaker: Dr Susan Connelly RSJ, who has worked with the people of Timor Leste for over 20 years, and was involved with efforts to secure a just outcome for the Timor Sea dispute between Australia and Timor Leste. A range of accommodation is […]
ICAN speakers, Tuesday 6 August 7pm for 7.30pm start, at Black Rock Civic Hall, corner of Balcombe Rd., and College Grove. Entry Free. The legacy of nuclear weapons in Japan, Central Australia and the Pacific. Dimity Hawkins AM, one of the founders of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. In 2017 ICAN was the […]
Chris Briggs University of Technology SydneyElsa Dominish University of Technology SydneyFranziska Mey University of Technology Sydney With 12 coal power stations in Australia closed since 2013, a full transition out of coal is coming. Around the world, governments and stakeholders are considering how to implement a “just transition” from coal to clean energy – a […]
Where to now, Australia? Editorial As the ‘miracle’ Morrison government settles into its new term of office, Australians are expecting significant developments in public policy. As Michael Keating writes in his review of the Australian National Outlook Report for 2019 by the CSIRO and its partners, the Coalition was re-elected ‘with almost no policies’, except […]
A 12-week unit at Yarra Theological College (YTU) Box Hill, offered by Dr Bruce Duncan CSsR. Mondays 6pm from 9 July Pope Francis has been calling for us urgently to address social problems of extreme poverty, inequality, and threats from global warming. This unit examines the responses of Pope Francis and other leaders to recent […]
As the ‘miracle’ Morrison government settles into its new term of office, Australians are expecting significant developments in public policy. As Michael Keating writes in his review of the Australian National Outlook Report for 2019 by the CSIRO and its partners, the Coalition was re-elected ‘with almost no policies’, except for inequitable tax cuts and […]
A searing heatwave has swept over western and southern Europe, and even in the USA. In France, temperatures were the highest on record, reaching 45.9℃, nearly two degrees above the previous record set in 2003, resulting in 15,000 deaths. Some 4000 schools were closed in France because of the heat, and authorities warned people to […]
A significant new report was released last week on the Australian National Outlook by the CSIRO. In this article, I summarise the report’s discussion of the key challenges and policy choices Australia faces, which will affect our future over the next fifty years. As we are repeatedly reminded, unlike other countries, Australia has enjoyed 27 […]
Stuck in a traffic jam every day on the way to work, do you imagine this is the way it is always going to be, only a little worse? If your livelihood is agriculture, like your father and his father before him, you face challenges they did not have to face. Weather patterns are changing, […]
The Government’s tax package is unfair to low paid workers. In response, the Labor Opposition announced that it will support Stage 1 of the package, within which is embedded much of that unfairness. How might we reduce the unfairness? The current debate about the Government’s tax package, introduced in its April 2019 Budget, includes issues […]
