While the Morrison government dithers, climate specialists are alarmed that the chances to limit global warming are slipping away, with the likely result that we will be left facing truly catastrophic changes to the weather. The former Liberal leader, John Hewson, in the Fairfax media on 1 August, castigated the Morrison government for ignoring 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 […]
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 […]
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Geraldine Doogue AO with Francis Sullivan Wednesday 24 July , 6.30-8.00pm Geraldine Googue AO is well known journalist and broadcaster, at the helm of the ABC Compass program for 20 years. Francis Sullivan was CEO of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council to coordinate the Catholic Church’s response to the Royal Commission. He has been […]
