Privatised energy, which delivers higher profits for energy corporations while degrading workers’ job conditions, is also sending power prices soaring. Renfrey Clarke argues the Coalition is seeking to hobble the energy revolution.
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On the eve of COP30, and as the recovery effort from Typhoon Kalmaegi and Super Typhoon Fung-wong continued in the Philippines, Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke with environmentalist and socialist Khyl Ramos about the impact of these events, grassroots and government responses and the struggle for climate justice and ecosocialism.
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COP30 lacked any concrete commitments to climate action, promoted false solutions and denied indigenous voices, writes Ben Radford. Meanwhile, the grassroots Peoples’ Summit laid the blame for the climate crisis squarely at capitalism’s feet and called for indigenous-led solutions and the non-proliferation of fossil fuels.
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Hundreds of activists will jump on kayaks at the Rising Tide People’s Blockade to demand that Labor end all coal and weapons shipments to Israel. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Scientists and their union are speaking out against Labor’s funding cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Labor environment and water minister Murray Watt is trying to rush through changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to make it easier to approve fossil fuel projects. Pip Hinman reports.
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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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Lock the Gate Alliance, along with 130 community groups, is calling on MPs to reject Labor’s changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, describing it as a “betrayal”. Kerry Smith reports.
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Rising Tide, the People’s Blockade of the world’s largest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle, is now one of the most iconic climate uprisings in the world. Darren Saffin writes this one will be the biggest yet.
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Greens Senator David Shoebridge became the first Australian parliamentarian to visit the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also known as Rojava). He spoke with Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the visit.
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Western Australian-based mining corporation Energy Transition Minerals lost its bid to overrule a 2023 decision by the Greenland government to reject its application to mine uranium and rare earths, reports Peter Boyle.
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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.