Voluntary assisted dying program on SBS
Watch out for the SBS Insight program with host Jenny Brockie which is looking at how voluntary assisted dying is working in Australia. 8.30pm – 9.35pm, Tuesday 3rd March 2020, and …
Asleep at the wheel
The Government announced over a year ago that it would develop a National Strategy for Electric Vehicles, but it won’t be done before June 2020 and it’s unlikely to add …
$2m for more phantom water
The Coalition appears to have struck another costly water deal to save the Ramsar-listed Narran Lakes wetlands, this time for ~$2 million. See here for the Guardian story). Three years …
Targets must come forward
Will Steffen, climate researcher at the ANU, says Labor’s targets of 45% reduction by 2030 and zero emissions by 2050 won’t contain global heating to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. …
Ice tells the tale on gas
While the PM and his Resources Minister tout the benefits of using gas as a ‘transition fuel’, CSIRO research says fugitive methane from extraction puts gas on a par with …
PM’s sympathy meaningless without action to stop murders
Men murder, on average one woman a week. This man killed his own 3 children too. This atrocity was committed in a peaceful Brisbane suburb this week, when a woman …
We sign on to Safe Climate Declaration
The Democrats today signed on to the Safe Climate Declaration and joined the call for Australia’s climate emergency transition. The National Climate Energy Summit, held in Melbourne on 14-15 February, …
Nanny needed
Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP Once again, politicians are in the news, but not about the work of Parliament. Again, it’s about themselves. The Nth sequel in leadership assassinations was about the …
No easy future for nuclear alternatives
Conservatives are finally getting it – the people want climate change addressed. However their solution is so often to spruik ‘new generations of nuclear power’ or mini versions of the …
PM spinning out of control on sports rorts
What are we to make of the Auditor-General’s evidence to the Senate inquiry into sports rorts that 43% (290) of projects funded were ineligible? That the Prime Minister deliberately misled …