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environment January 17, 2026
Cities aren’t safe from the next firestorm
As we face these fires in Victoria, there is deep apprehension among my colleagues in emergency services. We are not just worried about today. Victoria’s most savage fire weather often arrives later in summer, when heat, wind and dry fuels combust...
environment December 13, 2025
ANALYSIS: “We need better local gas pricing For Australia, that means doing something hitherto unthought of: telling multinationals that the cost of doing business here is to provide better prices for Australians. These firms can then make up the difference through their export price.”
environment December 13, 2025
ANALYSIS: “We need better local gas pricing For Australia, that means doing something hitherto unthought of: telling multinationals that the cost of doing business here is to provide better prices for Australians. These firms can then make up the difference through their export price.”
environment November 22, 2025
Can we handle the truth on climate?
As the latest round of United Nations climate talks were under way at COP30 in Brazil, the Liberal Party finally caved in to the pressure of climate change deniers in the National Party, reminding us that the climate wars are well and truly alive...
environment November 14, 2025
The political cost of keeping the lights on
There was a timely warning from Labor’s national president on the day the party, and the country, was remembering not only our war dead but also the convulsions caused by the ousting of the Whitlam government. Fifty years on from the Dismissal, the...
environment November 8, 2025
The lonely fear of this climate catastrophe
The Australian government released its first-ever National Climate Risk Assessment. You could be forgiven for paying little attention to this “first”, as there was a flurry of climate announcements and news around its release, including the ongoing...
rural November 8, 2025
What is the purpose of Barnaby Joyce?
Barnaby Joyce has always talked a story about himself bigger than the brim on his Hopalong Cassidy hat. He is a one-man plot line, but his achievements for the people he professes to represent are slim to infinitesimal. Even Joyce’s former campaign...
environment September 20, 2025
How to achieve the new climate target
Picture 2035, a decade hence: 31 million Australians are taking pride in the progress we’ve made to tackle climate change. Our homes and offices have become hyper-efficient and cosy, with many generating and storing the energy they need. Sleek...
environment September 12, 2025
A question for the United Nations
There are wars, and rumours of more wars, but almost total neglect of what should be the most significant global battle: keeping the planet habitable. It is now a most urgent challenge, with the coincident effect of multiple and converging risks...
environment September 6, 2025
Australia’s moment for climate leadership
The federal government is on the cusp of two significant moments regarding Australia’s climate ambition. If this nation is to chart a course to becoming a clean energy and green exports superpower over the coming decade and beyond, it must be...
environment August 2, 2025
As the Albanese government prepares to announce Australia’s 2035 climate target, pressure is mounting to show greater ambition. A cut in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 75 per cent below 2005 levels would broadly align with the science – and...
