Claims that climate scientists have abandoned their most dire scenario have been widely misunderstood. While the highest emissions pathway is now considered unlikely, evidence suggests the climate system may still be tracking toward dangerously high levels of warming.
Category: Politics
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The cruelty toward immigrants is not incidental. It is the point
The Trump administration’s campaign against immigrants is no longer confined to border enforcement or undocumented arrivals. It has become a broad effort to make life in the United States unbearable for foreign-born people and their families.
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If not now, when for the Greens?
With the Coalition in decline, Labor cautious and One Nation on the rise, the Greens need to move beyond issue-based advocacy and present a comprehensive alternative capable of winning government. (more…)
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Australia needs to start planning for life after gas
A major new report warns Australia must accelerate its transition away from gas or face higher energy costs, missed climate targets and growing risks to manufacturers and consumers.
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Australia needs a new model of higher education built around equity
Advances in digital technology make it possible to rethink higher education around equity rather than geography, cost and institutional prestige, with a distributed university model offering broader access to learning and research.
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Second-hand submarines: a sovereign flaw
The decision to acquire three secondhand Virginia-class submarines resolves a major fleet standardisation issue, but it also deepens Australia’s dependence on US industrial capacity, British delivery schedules and political decisions beyond its control.
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When Hanson outflanks the Coalition on China, there is an opposition problem
The real threat to Australia’s economic resilience is not a fleet of Chinese-made parliamentary vehicles but decades of industrial decline. The failure to confront that reality is creating political space for One Nation to occupy. (more…)
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Women’s health should not be collateral damage of war and sanctions
Whether through sanctions, blockade or war, policies presented as matters of security and strategy often impose predictable and disproportionate harm on women’s health, particularly reproductive and maternal care. (more…)
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Why Trump should be indicted
The 2016 Iran nuclear agreement imposed strict, independently verified limits on Iran’s nuclear program. Its existence raises fundamental questions about the legality of the Trump administration’s 2026 attack on Iran.
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Social cohesion cannot be built by exceptionalising antisemitism
A submission to the Royal Commission argues that privileging antisemitism above other forms of racism, while suppressing criticism of Israel and Zionism, undermines freedom of expression and weakens social cohesion. (more…)
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Red Bridge analysis an early warning signal, not a crystal ball
Polling points to a rapidly fragmenting electorate, with One Nation attracting unprecedented support and the major parties facing deepening voter dissatisfaction. While no single poll can reliably predict an election outcome, the consistency of these trends, across multiple surveys, means they can no longer be dismissed as protest noise or temporary volatility.
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A carbon tax is a good idea
A carbon tax would help substantially in tackling two of the major problems facing Australia today: climate change and paying for the government services that we want. (more…)
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A no-party party could work for community independents
A party of community independents funded on the same basis as the other parties might be just what we need to deliver good government and a vibrant democracy. (more…)
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The poll numbers tell a deeper story than One Nation’s rise
A poll on attitudes to public policy confirms that the economy remains people’s dominant concern, but there is resistance to reforms that would make for a fairer distribution of income and wealth. (more…)
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Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to rename the Kennedy Center after himself
A US federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump’s attempt to rename the John F Kennedy Center after himself violated federal law, reaffirming that only Congress can alter the institution’s name.
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“He’s Māori!” Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the gruesome Israeli prison system
Eugene Doyle recounts the testimony of New Zealand activist Hāhona Ormsby, who says he was beaten, humiliated and sexually degraded after being detained during Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud flotilla. (more…)
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Victoria: the police state
The Victorian Government relies too heavily on policing as the default solution to every social issue and is granting the police unchecked powers. (more…)
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Australia can’t have it both ways with China and the US forever
For two decades Australia assumed it could maintain beneficial ties with both the United States and China indefinitely. That assumption has collapsed. Work to build a greater resilience and autonomy, with our region, will take years, but that work must begin now. Nick Bisley reports. (more…)
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Securing the NDIS for future generations: government half-think
The Government is not considering both sides of the ledger when it comes to funding the NDIS. It’s not just about cutting costs but also raising revenue. (more…)
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US stalks Cuba
The Western world is hiding in the corner, averting its gaze as the US moves ever-closer to yet another war of aggression this time against the small, impoverished island nation of Cuba, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio signalling that a US war on Cuba is almost inevitable. (more…)
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Poets, philosophers, parklands and parliament
The world could be different if we were governed by a different breed of humans who understood that politics require morals and imagination. (more…)
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Sport, community and the commodification of belonging
The debate over T20 cricket reflects a much broader transformation. Across the sporting world, emotional attachment, community identity and cultural traditions are increasingly being converted into commercial assets.
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Catholic Australia in the time of Pope Leo
The Trump–Leo standoff could happen in Australia, though both political and clerical leaders here are much more cautious about church–state relations. (more…)
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The many careers of Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin has been the subject of several new artistic works in the last five years. Her brilliant life still has plenty to tell us about our nation. (more…)
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Antoun Issa’s novel of loss and rebirth
Deepcut News co-founder and journalist Antoun Issa captures his mother’s true experiences of love, heartbreak and new hope during the violence of civil war in Lebanon, in his new book Rebirth. (more…)
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One Nation is not the worker’s friend
Is One Nation the worker’s friend? Or a fully owned subsidiary of Gina Rinehart, as Jim Chalmers suggested? (more…)
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Politics and sport: what’s really in our heads and hearts?
Opinion polls – and the women and men who devise, conduct and analyse them – often get a bad rap. And some of the time that is understandable. (more…)
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Why are China’s young people fed up?
Decades of misguided economic policymaking have left China in a demographic hole that it seems incapable of climbing out of. As the “world’s factory,” the country is churning out everything except the people whom it will need to sustain its economic development and social stability. (more…)
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China–India rapprochement is pragmatic
The volatile geopolitical environment has seen China and India address frictions and rebuild bilateral relations. But fundamental grievances remain. (more…)
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Three Australias: new polling shows deepening divide
Changing voting patterns are no longer a reaction to short-term events, they are a rebellion against inequality, says Kos Samaris. (more…)