Önder Algedik argues that COP31 is no longer a climate summit, but a climate-changing summit and increasingly, a climate fair. Its Action Agenda lists 10 themes, from zero waste to electrification, but there is no mention of coal, oil or gas.
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As the four-day pre-COP31 meetings get underway in Fiji and Tuvalu, Australia needs to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, argues Pip Hinman.
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Former Greens leader Bob Brown said Australia is “culpable” for the devastation in Nepal because it was not acting seriously on the dangers of carbon emissions changing the climate. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The disaster in Nepal, Tibet and China has been described as being like a “horror movie” — only it is too real to ignore the fact that climate change is the greatest security threat of our time. Pip Hinman argues for the need to challenge Australia’s head-in-sand approach.
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Australia and Türkiye, neither of which takes climate action seriously, are vying to host the COP31 in 2026 — an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than resolving to limit them, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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Mainstream commentary on net zero emissions ignores the science and buys into the Coalition’s political conundrum about how it comes back from the brink. Alex Bainbridge argues that Labor needs to do more.
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Grassroots movements have gotten us to the point where governments can no longer deny climate change is happening. Pip Hinman argues that those movements have to grow to avoid being sucked into false solutions.
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So if the government's bill excising the entire Australian mainland from the migration zone is passed in parliament, I guess we will all be unAustralian. That is one insult used by politicians to describe anything they don't like will now lose its force. Forget Aboriginal people protesting on Australia Day, logically there can surely be no more unAustralian act than legally declaring Australia unAustralia. -
Federal immigration minister Chris Bowen announced plans for a new 1500-bed detention facility on March 3. It is to be located at Wickham Point, an industrial area 35 kilometres south-east of Darwin. The March 4 NT News said the Darwin Airport Lodge, which currently houses refugees, would also be expanded by 400 beds. This would bring Darwin’s total detention capacity to 2900, making the city the largest detention location on the mainland — larger even than the notoriously overcrowded Christmas Island facility. -
The second suicide in little more than two months took place at Villawood detention centre on the night of November 15. Ahmad Al Akabi, 41, was found by fellow detainees hanged in a bathroom. After spending more than a year in the Christmas Island and Villawood detention centres, his asylum application had been rejected twice under the off-shore processing system that was found to be invalid in a recent High Court decision.