Environment: The reformed EPBC Act – will the environment or business have priority?
After six years, reforming the EPBC Act may be reaching a conclusion. Twelve environmental defenders, many Indigenous, are murdered every month. Removing four dams allowed salmon to return to an Oregon river.
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8 November 2025
Abandoning net zero: Farce, fantasy and falsehoods
Australian politics is now descending into a theatre of science-denying absurdity. A mainstream party is now embedded in denial of clear scientific evidence that renewables are the lowest cost option for Australia through to 2050.
4 November 2025
Death by plastic
“Mummy...Daddy, what are clouds made of?” Almost every parent has fielded the innocent, eager question, perhaps explaining about mist, fog, water vapour, raindrops. Today, if you said that, you’d be wrong.
2 November 2025
Environment: Six strategies will simultaneously reduce emissions and help communities prepare
Six broad strategies will tackle the root causes of climate change and help groups prepare for the consequences of global warming. Environmentally sustainable aircraft are slow to take off. Local governments can take a lead in promoting biodiversity.
31 October 2025
COP30: Amazon rainforest destroyers
For 33 years, the world’s leaders have postponed climate action despite incontrovertible scientific evidence and images proving that mankind is rapidly razing and scorching our only home.
29 October 2025
Is the Great Barrier Reef collapsing?
It’s the largest living structure on Earth, 3000 individual reefs, 900 islands, 1430 miles, and it may be collapsing.
26 October 2025
Realism and optimism on energy transition
On the subject of energy decarbonisation, there are moonfaced optimists who insistently claim that net-zero emissions can easily be achieved by 2050, and “realists” like Vaclav Smil and Mark Mills, who warn that a transition away from society’s dependence on hydrocarbons, in Mills’s words, “is not feasible in any meaningful time frame”.
24 October 2025
‘We just have to be defiant’: Irrepressible environmentalist Bob Brown reflects on a life of activism
Hobart’s Theatre Royal was packed to the rafters on a chilly October evening when the irrepressible nature warrior Bob Brown launched his latest book Defiance.
22 October 2025
China’s FDI, not the BRI, drives a global green transition
Over the past few years, outward Chinese foreign direct investment commitments in green manufacturing have grown rapidly and now dwarf the Marshall Plan in their scale.
22 October 2025
The problem of climate change denialism
It is one of the great public debates of our time: is climate change happening or not? If it is, is humanity partly responsible? Either way, is it problematic and, if so, should we act?
21 October 2025
If you go down to the forests today, you’re in for a big surprise (mass deforestation)
Visit many areas of state forest in parts of Victoria and you might get a shock – the forest isn’t there.
21 October 2025
'We can do this': Rio Tinto’s rapid switch to renewables shows path for quick exit from coal
You might be able to imagine the scene: An Australia sporting minister stands up in front of a vast audience to announce that something is simply not possible – it might be running 100 metres in 10 seconds, kicking a drop goal from 50 metres, or a swimming relay team beating a world record.
20 October 2025
Countering Trump, Pacific Islanders are leading on climate change
The leaders of the Pacific Islands are forging a united front against President Donald Trump’s climate denialism and leading the world in the battle against the climate crisis.
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