Carpark rort
It’s a while since a government rort hit the headlines but there it is – $660.4 million for car parks, described by the National Audit Office this week as not …
Climate action bogged down in politics
The ALP and crossbench in the Senate on Tuesday voted to disallow regulations that would have allowed ARENA to find carbon capture and sequestration (unproved and expensive), ‘blue’ hydrogen using …
End of coal and gas story being rewritten
Whilst the G7 Summit last weekend failed to deliver the ambitious climate action many seek, and the world needs, coal – particularly thermal coal – came in for special attention. …
Fake surprise on GBR in danger
Stunned by the UNESCO recommendation Minister Ley may be but she ought to read her own department’s advice which makes it clear that mass coral bleaching on the reef is …
Immoral, vindictive and chillingly arrogant
Witness K told the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague the rotten secret that Australia bugged its poorest neighbour to get the upper hand in negotiations over the wealth …
Launched: our thousands of affordable new homes plan
House prices are spiraling are out of control, affordable housing is scarce, over 478,000 low and very low income households across Australia are in unaffordable rental housing, 100,000 Australians are …
Thousands of affordable new homes
200,000 new affordable homes, tax reform and loan caps to stop the house price spiral. More rights for tenants.
CBAM! Border taxes are coming…
Until now, the imperative to reduce emissions has been chiefly a moral one. That’s because efforts to reduce emissions by Australia would be relatively small on a global scale so …
Sinking to new lows on asylum seekers
It’s hard to fathom why a government would deny timely medical treatment to four-year old Tharnicaa, whose Tamil parents fled Sri Lanka by boat almost a decade ago. By all …
Super scandal
Now we have the figures. In 2020 >3 million people withdrew $36.4 billion from their superannuation accounts. No doubt it was a popular life-saver for almost ten per cent of …