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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Hundreds of activists from across Western Australia greeted Labor’s conference delegates with concerns over fracking, the AUKUS submarine deal and the refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Riley Breen reports.
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Labor can be pushed to intervene and repower Tomago if enough unionists and community organisations demand it, argues Zane Alcorn. The dying coal industry will not simply say goodbye.
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The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, set to be launched at COP30, is designed to guarantee profits for corporations and governments in the Global North by deepening debt and financial dependency in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.
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Direct action organiser and activist Lilli Barto delivered this poem to a protest, organised by the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition, outside the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.
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Carbon capture and storage has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system, but as John Quiggin argues, the statistics say otherwise.
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Forest firefighters marched from Trades Hall to the Victorian Parliament to demand fair pay ahead of a critical bushfire season, with a depleted emergency response fleet. Ron Guy reports.
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Zack Schofield, an organiser with Rising Tide, joins Green Left Radio to discuss this year’s People’s Blockade.
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In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semarang and Akrom from the Indonesian youth struggle front in Salatiga — to get their take on this new youth-led movement.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Despite all the evidence that we have entered an era of catastrophic climate change, federal Labor is pushing to bring pro-business amendments to Australia’s main environment law. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Veteran socialist activist and filmmaker Jill Hickson will be missed, but her legacy of powerful films, many of which were made with John Reynolds, live on. Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman reflect on her enormous contribution to creating a better world.