No one wants to return to the days of asylum seekers taking high risks in coming to Australia by boat, however, seeking asylum for protection …
The effects of human-caused global warming are happening now, are irreversible on the timescale of people alive today, and will worsen in the decades to …
Report after report shows that Australia is failing to arrest the decline of its natural ecosystems.
Climate change is worsening the risk for severe bushfires, floods, …
As a strong, confident, self-reliant democracy, Australia has the capacity to play a prominent role in helping solve the big global issues of global poverty, …
It is the greatest stain on our country that First Nations Peoples are not recognised in the Australian Constitution. There is no treaty, no voice, too …
Many current income support payments are less than half the poverty level. One in 200 people are homeless in Australia and many more are struggling …
It’s clear – career politicians in the major parties have neither the will nor the capacity to serve the best interests of the nation.
Low and …
Australia dropped down OECD ranks based on the last Programme for International Student Assessment of 15-year-olds, and on other measures of performance have stagnated or gone …
Australia needs a National Integrity Commission, but we also need an integrated and properly funded integrity system of agencies that can adequately perform their vital …
LATEST POSTS
Showing just how much the Coalition despises the public sector, $3.3 billion is to be cut from the Australian Public Service.
That means about 5,000 people …
Today’s announcement that first home buyers could use up to $50,000 of their Superannuation to buy a house has immediately added $50,000 to the price …
Today’s Age Article by Peter Hartcher confirms that the LNP and ALP want the nuclear submarines so that Australia (Zero nuclear weapons) can directly threaten …
What happens if a large adversary decides to blow up the proposed nuclear submarines (SSN) prior to launch but after the reactor is installed?
We have a national crisis with a lack of affordable housing across Australia.
Chris Simpson, Democrats spokesperson on Housing Affordability
Attempts by government to address this issue …
It is reckless and damaging to Australia’s reputation and interests internationally for the Government to be again ramping up the rhetoric of war.
Elana Mitchell, Democrats …
ACTION ON CLIMATE
With the price of unleaded petrol now over $2 per litre, the government is signaling a cut in fuel excise but this is no solution …
New data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service shows the world continues to warm up as the government and opposition continue to avoid doing …
With just 3 weeks to go, the Prime Minister finally announced today that, yes, he will go to Glasgow, he may or may not have …
Start with the sectors that contribute the most to Australia’s greenhouse emissions: Electricity, stationary energy, transport and agriculture.
While Norway is on track for 100% of all new cars sales to be EV’s in 2022. Australia is at 0.6%.
My message is that we’ll be watching you.
This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other …
There you have it – China will not build any more coal-fired power stations abroad.
This is indeed significant since China builds/finances the majority of new …
The Glasgow Summit Conference of the Parties kicks off on 1 November and the UN warns it is the world’s last chance to get runaway …
Over 2,000 scientists and academics are calling on world leaders to commit to a treaty to stop expanding fossil fuel production.
The clean transition will be critical to mitigating the worst impacts of global warming, and its happening whether the Government is supporting it or not.
It’s hard to know where to start on the Morrison response, or lack of it, to the IPCC report. At his press conference he said:
Unless …
Today we release our election platform – A Decade of Climate Action – it’s our demand for urgent action to reduce greenhouse emissions over the …
The Report of the 6th assessment by the IPCC of global warming and how it affects the world is out and it’s a massive wake-up call.
The …
Agriculture is the cornerstone of stable society and it is of national importance to ensure the viability of Australian agriculture for the benefit of all …
