Giles Parkinson. Gas lobby seizes Covid moment, and declares war on Australia’s future.
Photo Hornsdale (South Australia) windfarm in construction 2016. David Clark. flickr cc. 4 June 2020 The history of war tells us that such events...
Bruce Duncan. On resetting our economic compass after Covid.
Photo Public Housing Rubik’s cube minimalism. Mathew Perkins 2016, flickr cc. 4 June 2020. Greatly concerned about the social and economic consequences of the...
Paul Gilding. Covid-19 & the death of market fundamentalism.
7 May 2020 On top of countless human tragedies, there will be many long-lasting social and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Perhaps none...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Covid-19 – return to a ‘normal’ world, or a radically different one?
7 May 2020 By now, we’re all familiar with the rationale that we’re undergoing these Covid-19 limits to our personal freedoms and employment in...
Natasha Chassagne. Here’s what the coronavirus pandemic can teach us about tackling climate change.
Natasha Chassagne University of Tasmania Every aspect of our lives has been affected by the coronavirus. The global economy has slowed, people have retreated...
Australia already has a net zero emissions target, only the Morrison government denies it.
Michael Mazengarb Posted 10 March 2020 Federal Labor’s renewed commitment to a net zero emissions target has ignited a new front in climate wars...
Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions, but everyone’s too scared to mention it.
Tony Wood Posted 10 March 2020 Opposition leader Anthony Albanese sought to claim the climate policy high ground last week with his commitment to...
Tony Rinaudo’s ‘The Forest Maker’.
Reviewed by Augustine Doronila Posted 10 March 2020 Up to 700 million people could be obliged to leave their homelands during the next three...
Giles Parkinson. Morrison is dangerously wrong on gas, and needs to wake up to new technologies
30 January 2020 It’s when prime minister Scott Morrison thinks he’s being really clever that he reveals the true level of his ignorance. Remember...
Ross Garnaut. Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it.
Four years ago, in December 2015, every member of the United Nations met in Paris and agreed to hold global temperature increases to 2°C,...
Will Steffen. Scientists hate to say, ‘I told you so’. But, Australia, you were warned.
Will Steffen Australian National University Those who say “I told you so” are rarely welcomed, yet I am going to say it here. Australian...