Technological advances spark social revolutions. Deforestation can have a net cooling effect. Warming makes droughts more severe. China leads the energy transition but still a long way from net zero. (more…)
Category: Politics
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Trump cannot stop the collapse of the Epstein cover-up
On 7 July, the Justice Department and FBI announced that billionaire Jeffrey “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” – mostly young females, many of them underage. (more…)
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Death of the Holocaust Industry
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponisation of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present. (more…)
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What game is he playing? The PM and AUKUS
As the Australian prime minister prepares for his visit to the UN in New York next week, Robert Macklin looks into what Anthony Albanese might be hoping for on the trilateral security deal. (more…)
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Genocide betrays the living and the dead
Genocide scholars Damir Mitric and Jill Klein have deep personal and professional experience in genocide and repercussions across generations. As the world watches in horror as the genocide in Gaza continues, they bring us their story. (more…)
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Cut emissions 70% by 2035? There’s only one policy that can get us there
Australia’s new emissions reduction target of 62–70% by 2035 is meant to demonstrate we are doing our part to hold climate change well below 2°C. (more…)
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Labor is taking Australia into a US war with China
The Albanese Labor Government is actively making plans to take Australia into a future US war with China.
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Fewer friends, more time stress: the essential charts from this year’s HILDA survey
Every year, one of Australia’s biggest longitudinal surveys provides a range of insights on how the nation is changing. (more…)
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How China’s green energy edge puts it in position to shape the future
As China’s lead expands, so will its geopolitical influence through traditional channels of power and the appeal of energy self-sufficiency. (more…)
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In Gaza, Western colonialism has been unmasked
Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, Western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a “moral” cause. Now the game is up. (more…)
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Why the planet now needs China
The World Bank’s Reboot Development report has belatedly confirmed what scientists have warned for decades: humanity is breaching the safe operating limits of the Earth. (more…)
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Foolhardy prison expansion
The opening of yet another large prison in Australia, this time in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley, is foolhardy. (more…)
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Key policies for the energy transition
This week the federal government is expected to release its 2035 greenhouse gas emissions target. However, more important than the target itself are policies needed to achieve substantial, effective, rapid emission reductions. (more…)
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UN at 80 – Rome is burning, governments are fiddling and the UN is ailing – Part 1
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. During these eight decades, much has been accomplished that calls for celebration. Yet, there is no denying that the United Nations is facing perhaps the greatest crisis of its 80-year history. (more…)
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Flawed Hero, flawed decision: The War Memorial’s institutional cowardice
The Australian War Memorial remains one of Australia’s most cherished national institutions, attracting a million visitors, mainly tourists, to Canberra each year. (more…)
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Blaming China won’t keep the lights on – or pay the power bill
Sky News is back on the beat with a familiar headline: “The $20,000-per-person climate tax: Cost of Australia’s green agenda to become astonishingly clear this week when new emissions targets are set.” (more…)
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Australia’s modest climate target: This is what collective failure looks like
Federal climate and energy minister Chris Bowen was right about one thing: Not many people would be happy with the federal government’s newly announced 2035 emissions target. Some would think it too high and others too low. (more…)
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Gaza: Where displacement is slow death
Forcing 1.2 million people to leave their homes in Gaza is not merely a move from one place to another, it is a death sentence carried out slowly. (more…)
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UN genocide finding makes global obligations clear
The international community has been waiting for this moment of moral clarity. (more…)
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Wind energy faces ‘existential challenge’ as solar and battery hybrids beat it on costs
The Australian wind industry has gathered in Melbourne to confront an uncomfortable but unavoidable truth: The cost of wind turbines has almost doubled from just a few years ago, and the technology is now being beaten on price by the combined forces of solar and battery storage. (more…)
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Occupying to end the genocide
I was arrested on Monday (15 September) for the first time in my life, for occupying the office of my local MP, the Labor member for Fraser, Daniel Mulino. (more…)
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Five ways to keep kids safe in Australia’s health system
One in five Australians is a child, but too often kids’ healthcare is inconsistent, fragmented, and not designed with their needs front and centre. (more…)
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FOI Amendment Bill: Not what Faulkner or Allan Hawke wanted
The Explanatory Memorandum for the government’s Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025 claims it implements or responds to certain recommendations from previous reviews and inquiries, citing in particular the late Allan Hawke’s 2013 review of the legislation. (more…)
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‘It is clear’: UN Commission finding confirms Israel committing genocide in Gaza
“To do nothing is not neutrality,” said the head of the commission. “It is complicity.” (more…)
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A smart productivity play: Stop subsidising loss-making native forest logging
On 7 September 2025, NSW set the proposed 476,000-hectare boundary for the Great Koala National Park and halted native-forest logging within it (plantation harvesting continues), with formal gazettal slated for 2026. (more…)
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How to get Albanese up for the Nobel Peace Prize
Why on earth is the prime minister boasting about having “really warm” phone chats with the oaf who is now the president of the United States? (more…)
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Gaza City under relentless bombardment as Israel launches ground invasion
UN chief calls situation in Gaza “horrendous” as a UN inquiry concludes that Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza amounts to genocide. (more…)
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AI: Much ado about something that one day may be important
AI. AI. AI. Maybe if I utter those magic initials one more time, you’ll reach peak ecstasy. Worried about our lack of productivity? Fear not. The economy will soon be rocketing ahead. (more…)
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This report measures our national well-being across five key areas. Health trends are not improving
In 2023, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced the government would measure what matters to the well-being of Australians as a complement to the traditional economic measures in the national accounts. (more…)
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Israel’s failure: From the claim of ‘existential threat’ to genocide and global isolation
In the history of human wars, outcomes are always measured by the degree to which predetermined objectives are achieved. (more…)