Analysis

Fossil fuel companies are targeting young people in schools, early childhood centres, museums and community organisations to propagandise about the industry, downplaying its role in causing climate change. Ben Radford reports.

Traditional water owners from the northern Murray Darling Basin have set up a new First Nations group to ensure that cultural and personal connections to local rivers are restored as part of their water rights and to stop environmental degradation. Tracey Carpenter reports.

People shared their horror experiences about Work for the Dole programs, including not having training, the lack of safety equipment and very little supervision, at an Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union event. Pip Ryan reports.

Glencore’s guarantee of jobs cannot be trusted, based on its own history, writes Steve O'Brien. Its bid to expand its coal mining must be rejected and it must be forced to offer a strong transition package to affected miners and their communities.

For more than 60 years, Bevan Ramsden dedicated himself to the pursuit of an independent, peaceful and sustainable Australia, free from US domination and its war machine. 

Ruth Mitchell, a doctor and neurosurgeon, argues that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs showed the unacceptable effects they have on humans and the environment, and that Australia must sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.