26 November 2022

The book that changed me: Hannah Arendts Eichmann in Jerusalem and the problem of terrifying moral complacency

Hannah Arendt publishedEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evilin 1963. Over the next two decades alone, it would be republished some 30 times, first in the United States and then Britain, as debate swirled around both its arguments and its author.

31 July 2022

Teetering on a tightrope: Labor, the Teals, and tactics

The rise of the Teals and Greens represents a structural shift in Australias political landscape. This shift reflects deep-seated electoral disaffection with both major parties. In 2022 around 33 percent of the primary vote went to minor parties and independents rather than Labor and the Coalition. Yet Labor continues to behave as if the last election was a business as usual change of government. This is a misreading that leaves it teetering on a tightrope.

25 May 2022

The new climate challenge: toughening targets, avoiding new conflicts

To stick rigidly to the 43% target will prove infeasible in the short term and politically self-harming in the longer term. Tougher targets are inevitable.

12 May 2022

If I were the Prime Minister - Taking the climate emergency seriously

The Black Summer bushfires, the Millennium Drought, the dying Great Barrier Reef, this years floods. Australia has experienced unprecedented environmental disasters in recent times. Each was amplified by global warming. Scientific reports indicate worse may still to come.

26 October 2021

Australia is undermining the Paris Agreement, no matter what Morrison says

We need new laws to stop Prime Minister Scott Morrison undermining the international treaty central to combating climate change.