The latest update by the ANU’s Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions has issued another frank, distressing prognosis. Professor Howden – a vice chair of the IPCC and director of the ANU Institute – warns that the annual Conference of Parties (COP) is not going to deliver global temperatures under 1.5C. That is to Continue reading »
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There are recurrent calls for tax reform, but it is typically too difficult to achieve a consensus. However, the necessary action to reduce carbon emissions by introducing a tax on carbon emissions could result in most people being better off and thus achieve broad support. To coin a phrase: just like galahs in a pet Continue reading »
Amid end time destruction, we must liberate Gaza, march to the security wall, and Occupy Israel. If the world’s Free Palestine protesters are to be taken seriously, intervention to save lives must replace US, UK, Australian and other western nations’ inaction and collusion with Israeli slaughter. Don’t just protest: Liberate Gaza, march to the security Continue reading »
With Roe v. Wade dismantled, far-right courts are coming for all aspects of reproductive health care.
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Australian Opposition leader (for now), Donald Dutton, has told confidantes that the secret to winning the next election is his new found mantra. That it is not a lie, if Sky News or the ABC believes it. ”Dutt’s has been... Read More ›
Recently the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a thinktank in Washington, DC, did a survey asking U.S. and Taiwan Experts if China might use nuclear weapons in a conflict with or over Taiwan. The results were astonishing to most who read the study. Almost half of U.S. experts reported they thought China would. Only Continue reading »
China is threatening to the West because it provides an example of how a poor and technologically backward country can effectively defy Western domination of the mind and body. Since the late 15th Century until the mid-20th Century the West, through its technological and hence military superiority has been able to project to the rest Continue reading »
Respecting international law and ending the system of apartheid that Israel imposes on the Palestinians is the only way to achieve lasting peace, human security and regional stability—for no one can be safe until everybody is safe. GENEVA (15 February 2024) – The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories Continue reading »
The Arab response to the unfolding Palestinian catastrophe has been underwhelming. Palestinian intellectuals, journalists, activists, and the wider Palestinian public have had no illusions as to what to expect of the US political and military elites. They did, however, expect more of Arab governments. The hope was that, with Israel’s barbaric conduct in Gaza glaringly Continue reading »
Documents obtained under FOI applications have revealed a worrying side to official Australian efforts regarding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.In September 2021, DFAT became aware of media reports detailing CIA planning to murder Assange in London. The plot revealed to journalists working for Yahoo News, who spoke to over 30 intelligence sources, involved consideration by CIA of Continue reading »