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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 …
The Royal Commission into Aged Care found significant fault in the aged care system as a whole and uncovered neglect, abuse, indifference, and poor leadership. …
Australia needs a national plan to shift from an outdated, fossil fuel-based transport system that clogs up roads and is our second-largest source of greenhouse …
LATEST POSTS
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 …
The government and the ALP continue to turn a blind eye to the military lessons from the Ukraine conflict.
In 2021 the Federal budget included big-spending promises for the Aged Care industry – an extra $17.7 billion over five years, or roughly $3.5 billion …
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 …