Over the past decade, Australia has endured its worst stagnation in living standards since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and has lost its way in terms of economic policies that can restore prosperity, says Ross Garnaut in conversation with Michael Lester. Professor Ross Garnaut AC, Australia’s pre-eminent economic policy adviser and analyst over many Continue reading »
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COP29 was far from the dramatic turning point in the fight against catastrophic climate change that the world needs
For the third year in a row the nations of the world, meeting in solemn climate conclave, have vowed to cook their children and grandchildren alive. COP29, chaired by petro-state Azerbaijan and stuffed to the gills with 1773 oil industry lobbyists, was never going to deliver more than tokenism and lip service to the greatest Continue reading »
For the aviation industry as a whole, and, for that matter, our federal government too, ‘net zero 2050’ is just the latest layer of greenwash. The sector is a serial offender, having misrepresented its global warming impact for decades. Qantas says it doesn’t buy political favours. But it has illegally sacked its workforce, short changed Continue reading »
What 700 years of historical data can tell us about extreme weather.
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Cathedrals, seed banks, and oaks: How to live in times of change.
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World leaders are failing to commit to the dramatic action required to prevent devastating climate change, reports Mike Buckley from the COP29 summit
The fossil fuel corporations and their enablers treat us with complete contempt. This is not very polite to say, I know, but they spit in our faces and laugh. The great majority of people around the world want more serious efforts to stop global warming. The International Energy Agency advised some time ago that there Continue reading »
"We have to [only] choose the ‘good’ ones that have the best pictures or the highest fatalities", says Laura Tobin
The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed