Dirty coal, dirty tricks
It appears, at least in Queensland, that coal-fired generators are manipulating power production in order to drive costs down to zero at times in order to put large scale solar …
MDB in strife, water audit needed
It is clear that government policy is being made on-the-run, and against the evidence of scientists and its own departmental experts. It is equally clear that our understanding of the …
Read this and be angry!
Professors Don Driscoll, Bob Pressey, Euan Ritchie and Noel Preece have just published in The Conversation, the results of their survey of experts in government, industry and universities which found …
1.5 deg. by 2024
The latest report by the World Meteorological Organisation comes with a serious warning: The limit of 1.5 deg. increase in warming, set in the Paris climate agreement, may be exceeded …
It’s the first-ever World EV day and there’s news to celebrate
AGL is offering EV ‘subscriptions’ from $299/week for electric vehicles, initially for customers within 50km of Sydney or Melbourne. It predicts that half of all new cars sold will be …
Overworked, unemployed and more at risk – that’s women
An update from ABC News today – Covid favours men! The Treasurer admitted in July that women have borne the brunt of Covid-19 as their jobs disappeared at a faster …
At last, some action on EVs but still too slow
We still don’t have a plan for switching to electric vehicles (promised in June 2020, now sometime in 2021) but ARENA is working on preparing the network for growth in EV …
Aged care – we can do better
There’s no doubt that aged care homes were, and probably still are, ill-prepared for Covid-19. It’s also tragic that by 29 August, 407 aged care residents had died of the virus, presumably without family members close by. …
Re-evaluating our economy
Despite recording 28 years of uninterrupted growth, it was already clear prior to the coronavirus pandemic that Australia’s economy was not working for everyone. In the last 20 years, manufacturing, as a percentage of GDP declined from 12% to 6%. Steel production …