SPC News May 2021.
SPC News is going into hibernation. Peter Whiting. We remain convinced that there is a need for strong voices addressing social justice issues from...
A Song Worth Singing: Our Melbourne Days, by Anne Doyle.
Bruce Duncan. 4 May 2021. I am very pleased to commend a new book by Anne Doyle, A Song Worth Singing: Our Melbourne Days....
Wonder & enchantment: ‘seeing’ beyond the mundane
Len Puglisi. 4 May 2021 Over a number of years, I’ve come across various writers who have reported events they define as uplifting moments...
PNG: the colony Australia tries to forget.
Allan Patience. 4 May 2021. Australia’s ham-handed history of colonialism, in what today is the independent state of Papua New Guinea, began in 1883...
What have our governments done to tackle rates of Indigenous custody?
Jack Waterford. 4 May 2021. From one perspective, one could see the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd as a...
Vital signs: to fix Australia’s housing affordability crisis, negative gearing must go.
Richard Holden UNSW. House prices are back in the news, and out of control. In the past three months the median house price in...
Seriously ugly – that’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century.
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The University of Queensland.Lesley Hughes Macquarie University. Imagine, for a moment, a different kind of Australia. One where bushfires on the catastrophic...
More reasons for optimism on climate change than we’ve seen for decades: two climate experts explain.
Gabi Mocatta University of TasmaniaRebecca Harris University of Tasmania It’s unusual for researchers who study our catastrophically changing climate to use the words “optimism”...
The blood-for-oil Iraq war demands a robust public inquiry.
Bevan Ramsden. 30 March 2021. 20 March 2021 marks 18 years since Australia made the decision to join the United States in the disastrous...
SPC News April 2021.
We need to tell it as it really is! Editorial Peter Whiting During the waning years of the Trump presidency, it became fashionable to...
Wake up, Mr Morrison: Australia’s slack climate effort leaves our children 10 times more work to do than we have.
Lesley Hughes Macquarie UniversityJohn Hewson Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National UniversityMalte Meinshausen The University of MelbourneWill Steffen Australian National University 30 March...