The North East Forest Alliance has welcomed the news that the new federal environment law will remove the exemption allowing native forest logging in Regional Forest Agreements. Kerry Smith reports.
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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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In Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers, Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre make a valuable contribution to Marxist economics, first, in demonstrating the empirical credibility of the labour theory of value and, second, in showing how it can explain the economics of imperialism and environmental degradation, writes Neville Spencer.
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Unions NSW launched its Pilliga Campaign Report at NSW Parliament with Gomeroi leaders and climate activists. Pip Hinman and Marie Flood report.
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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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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.