Decarbonising the power sector
The issues | Let’s be honest. If we want to decarbonise the economy it will require making some hard trade-offs. Instead of rising to the challenge, the major parties are …
The Environment
Spending on the protection and restoration of nature isn’t just a nice-to-have item. More than half our GDP relies on natural systems and healthy nature is vitally important for the …
Protesters criminalised but who’s at fault?
Five state governments have now passed tough new laws with powers to put protesters in jail, such is the battle now raging between governments wanting to prop up the fossil …
I’m all for EVs – Heath McKenzie
My family and I are privileged to have an electric car which we love but over the next few years all new transport vehicles will need to be electric – …
Australia needs a climate plan
The issues | Human-caused global warming is already irreversible on the timescale of people alive today and will worsen in decades to come (NASA). The world must change its approach to energy, recognise the limits …
Phase out coal, cut oil and gas
Australia and other major producers are together set to increase the size of the fossil fuel industry to about twice what would be consistent with their pledge to try to …
Budget 2023-4
See here for the full interview and our very clear message to the Government on the budget.
The environment is deteriorating – SOE
The State of the Environment Report released this month is shocking. Because of climate change, habitat degradation and loss, unsustainable development and resource extraction, invasive species, and pollution, the environment …
The decade of climate action
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 come (NASA). Countries worldwide need …
An economy for the people
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 middle-income workers have been hard …