Private generators regularly game the national electricity market to drive up wholesale prices, writes Max Chandler-Mather, and it’s time for a rethink on essential services like energy and childcare.
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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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Labor’s 2035 greenhouse gas emission reduction target is not only inadequate, Peter Boyle argues it forms part of the deception that Australia accepts that climate change is real.
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The Labor government’s 2035 greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 62-70% is not only inadequate, as environmental groups have pointed out, but a cynical exercise in greenwashing. Peter Boyle reports.
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The major parties’ support for salmon farming and native forest logging means that there has been virtually no mainstream discussion about mitigating climate change and a just transition for workers and the environment. Solomon Doyle reports.
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Making profit the purpose of the childcare industry means that it will always be dangerous, argues former childcare worker Adam Bremner.
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Environmentalists say the toxic practices of industrial-scale fish farms damage Tasmania’s reputation as “clean and green”. Philippa Skinner reports.
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Peter Dutton’s new policy to force gas companies to increase supply to the domestic market merely appears to stand up to the gas corporations. Alex Bainbridge argues it does the opposite.
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The claim by capitalist economists that growing the ‘economic pie’ is the only way out of the cost-of-living crisis is a bald-faced lie to make the billionaire class richer. Peter Boyle reports.
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The major parties have moved to entrench a system of unfairly distributed electoral funding and corporate donations to pay for their manipulative misinformation campaigns. Peter Boyle reports.
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It’s a scary thought, but Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton could be elected the next prime minister on a minority of votes. Blair Vidakovich reports.
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Disrupt Burrup Hub climate campaigners defiantly pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and will return to court to fight other charges. Riley Breen reports.