Environment
What small personal decisions reveal about shared environments

Public debate often focuses on big decisions, elections, legislation, economic reform. Yet much of ...  
Human tragedy eclipses tourist turmoil amid Vietnam’s deadly floods

A traveller’s close call in flood-ravaged Hoi An reveals how easily visitors can escape — and ...  
Changing the climate in the Liberal Party

Now, at least and at last, the line is drawn on climate change and the environment.  
The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit

Indigenous people don’t offer us hope — they offer truth, which demands we dismantle the ...  
Sussan Ley says Coalition has always been committed to Net Zero renewables

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has laid to rest growing concerns that her party has abandoned the ...  
Climate commitments crumble as ANZ and Westpac bankroll new fossil projects

New data shows ANZ and Westpac accelerating fossil fuel lending despite public climate pledges ...  
Liberals and News Corp in lock-step with interests of climate denying billionaires

Despite the spin, the Coalition and News Corp remain mouthpieces for billionaire interests bent on ...  
Coalition of the unlikely: How Australia and China could save the planet

If we are to survive, unprecedented levels of cooperation are needed, no matter how unlikely.  
Western liberalism and the harsh reality of climate change

Capitalism's unrestrained access to political influence, land and labour is starting to cann ...  
From climate crisis to AI catastrophe: The future no one is ready for

While leaders fumble climate action, the unchecked rise of superintelligent AI could eclipse every ...  
Tasmania will be a richer state when it protects its native forests

Tasmania has become Australia's new logging hotspot, wasting public money while destroying our ...  
Nationals’ net zero backflip a disaster for the regions

The National Party’s decision to abandon its net zero target is a betrayal of regional Austra ...  
UN warns extreme heat will become more frequent, intense and widespread

Destabilised food systems, school closures, heatstroke, disease — millions in our region are ...  
Rare earth elements: The minerals at the heart of the next world crisis

Rare earth elements have become the new battleground for global dominance, fuelling weapon prod ...  
New koala park less about koalas and more about cashing in on carbon credits

Australian rainforests have become the first in the world to switch from absorbing carbon dioxide ...  
Investigation
IA INVESTIGATION: The LNP Cableway that won't go away

The LNP are back in QLD and so are many of the old policies that kept them out of power for ten ...  
Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine a wake-up call for ethical investors

Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine reveals how “ethical investment” rings hollow when profits trump ...  
Trump’s legacy: Division, denial and a climate in crisis

As Trumpism spreads and the climate crisis worsens, the cost of denial, greed and inaction grows ...  

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