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...
Victoria’s truth-telling commission: to move forward, we need to answer for the legacies of colonisation.
Harry Hobbs University of Technology Sydney. 30 March 2021 Last year, the Victorian government announced it would establish a Truth and Justice process to...
Australia has a long history of coercing people into work. There are better options than ‘dobbing in’.
Frances Flanagan University of Sydney. 30 March 2021 After heated criticism from several quarters, the federal government last month announced a meagre rise in...
We need to tell it as it really is!
Editorial. Peter Whiting. 30 March 2021. During the waning years of the Trump presidency, it became fashionable to reference the inordinate number of misleading...