Coalition climate fiasco
Apparently, billions of dollars in incentives were not enough to appease the Nationals. The party has been in government for the last 8 years but Barnaby Joyce talks like a …
CoP26 debacle
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 a plausible plan to reduce emissions – it’s still being finalised.
Legal for politicians to lie?
The ABC’s RMIT fact-checker confirmed that political parties can lie with impunity in their advertising during federal election campaigns, or anytime really. Remember ‘Labor has secret plans to introduce a …
Mitigating climate change
Agricultural production and land-clearing account for 22% of Australia’s carbon emissions, representing a significant contribution to the nation’s overall net carbon emissions. Various Australian groups have endorsed an international plan …
Collaery case ruled mostly open
The ACT Court of Appeal yesterday overturned a previous ruling in June that would have allowed the trial against Bernard Collaery to be held entirely in secret. The court said …
Reshuffle and nukes
Tim Wilson has been appointed assistant minister for industry, energy and emissions reduction – yes – the Tim Wilson who argued when Policy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs …
Missing Gladys already
Premier Berejiklian has stepped down while the investigation by ICAC takes place into the seedy behaviour of her erstwhile manfriend, Daryl Maguire. She should not have indulged him but we …
Disaster payments to stop regardless of lockdown
This is really mean. The Treasurer announced today that once vaccination rates reach 70 percent, disaster payments will start to be phased out. They will then be tapered off over …
World’s oldest tropical rainforest returned to Aboriginal custodians
The Daintree, Ngalba-bulal, Kalkajaka and the Hope Islands National Parks (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) – 2.3 million hectares – will now be jointly-managed by Aboriginal rangers and the community, …
Greta Thunberg speaks to UN climate action summit
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 side of the ocean. …