To read full versions of these items, follow the links.Download a printable version of SPC News. 7 May 2020 Covid-19 – return to a ‘normal’ world, or a radically different one? Editorial Peter Whiting By now, we’re all familiar with the rationale that we’re undergoing these Covid-19 limits to our personal freedoms and employment in […]
Follow the links to read these articles in full.Download a printable version of SPC News. Editorial. Critical choices face Australia & the world Peter Whiting It has all happened so quickly that it’s difficult to take it all in. The changes to our lives wrought by COVID-19 are dramatic, personal, and wide-ranging. Personally, I am […]
Follow the links to read these articles in full.Download a printable version of SPC News. Editorial. The human cost of bushfires Peter Whiting Images of the devastating bushfires which ravaged the Eastern States over summer have been seared into the Australian consciousness. The spontaneous generosity of Australians not directly affected by the fires is testimony […]
Follow the links to read these articles in full. Download a printable version of SPC News. The fires foreshadow our future with global warming Bruce Duncan Many Australians are very angry about the government’s failure to prepare for the fires or respond adequately. Astonishingly, Mr Morrison took holidays in Hawaii in January, without publicly announcing […]
Follow the links to read these articles in full. Download a printable version of SPC News. It’s time Peter Whiting Many readers will remember the catchy 1972 theme It’s time, which thrust Gough Whitlam into government. It focused on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative government, and was underpinned by a […]
Follow the links to read these articles in full.Download a printable version of SPC News. Subsidiarity – empowering people to take responsibility. Peter Whiting We are experiencing around the world a number of unrelated large-scale protest movements, which seem broadly to have in common only that they are each demanding greater political freedom and social […]
Download a printable version of SPC News Climate change: not just about economics, but also about ecology & ethics Peter Whiting Some 300,000 people marched in Australia on 20 September in support of the student-inspired demonstrations, three days before the UN Climate Summit in New York, indicating how many are acutely dissatisfied with the government’s […]
Why the Amazon fires strike dread in our hearts. Bruce Duncan The extraordinary fires in the Amazon in August 2019 struck dread into the hearts of climate specialists and observers worldwide, since the Amazon forests remain one of the great bulwarks against global warming. They cool Latin America, and generate 20% of the world’s oxygen. […]
No issue matters as much as climate change Editorial 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
