
Surreptitious Victorian native forest logging
The Victorian Government claims that it exited native forest logging in 2024. However, it has not legislated this exit. And, notably, logging is continuing through other nefarious and highly cynical means.
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23 April 2025
Beyond fear and false choices: Why loyalty to the major parties is no longer tenable
It's time for Muslims and allies to vote with principle, not fear.

17 April 2025
Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign
The federal election should be an earnest contest over the fundamentals of Australia’s climate and energy policies.

13 April 2025
Environment: Adopt a tapeworm. Love your lice. Give a leech lunch
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11 April 2025
A statement by the minister for the environment in the new Australian Government
My fellow Australians: you cannot exist, and your grandkids will not exist without a safe, healthy, habitable Earth for us all to dwell upon.

11 April 2025
China exposes US as targeting mobile communications
In March 2024, the United States and its Five Eyes allies sounded the alarm over “Volt Typhoon”, an alleged Chinese hacking group cast as a dire threat to Western critical infrastructure.

9 April 2025
Making science great again – or not
In the US, the freshly installed administration of President Donald Trump is attempting to drastically reshape science. Here we focus on interventions that are relevant to epidemiology and public health.

9 April 2025
Can our human species be rescued?
Our own human species is in grave danger of becoming extinct in the not-too-distant future, and there is no systemic global effort underway to minimise this threat. A series of “existential threats” have been highlighted by many scientists.

7 April 2025
Hosting the UN climate summit is far from ‘madness’ – here’s how Australia stands to benefit
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton would withdraw Australia’s bid to co-host next year’s global climate summit if the Coalition wins the federal election.

6 April 2025
Environment: Coal, oil and gas still produce three-quarters of all greenhouse gases
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31 March 2025
Delete the Earth
Day by day, species by species, landscape by landscape, the world in which humanity arose is being deleted. Eventually, what remains will be unfit for the survival of either humans or large animals.

31 March 2025
The Pacific is fighting for climate justice: Will Australia listen?
The Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) participated in the final day of the Sydney Climate Action Week, on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and had the privilege of listening to Indigenous and First Nations stories, learning from their wisdom.

30 March 2025
Environment: Humans’ contempt for the natural world drives environmental destruction
Environmentalists have failed to transform the underlying social values that drive environmental destruction. Fifteen companies produce 30% of Australia’s greenhouse gases. Mountains provide 60% of our fresh water, but not for much longer.