Tom Greenwell
There is nothing democratic about the public realm being used to pressure us towards behaviours that are socially and environmentally destructive. Like reining in the corporate capture of politicians, breaking the big polluters’ grip on the public sphere is a prerequisite for the collective action needed to avert the worst of the climate crisis.
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Claims by the Australia Institute, Senator David Pocock and others about Australia's gas industry are based on publicly available government data.
Universities will now face tougher governance and transparency requirements under new federal standards, including public disclosure of board decisions, executive pay and consultancy spending.
Australia’s biggest conservation organisations have united behind a call to end native forest logging, arguing governments should protect forests for their environmental value rather than use them to offset fossil fuel emissions.
It isn’t always easy to keep up with what’s happening in the US. “Shorter America” is a series where Dr Emma Shortis loops you in on what’s going on in America and shares news and analysis that you can trust.
Former South Australian senator Rex Patrick has labelled the $368 billion AUKUS submarine program too expensive, too risky and too secretive about where it plans to dispose of its nuclear waste.
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Australia will become a “junior” partner to the United States and lose its strategic independence if it continues to push ahead with the AUKUS nuclear-submarine deal, according to a former Defence Department analyst.
Former Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has said there is a national appetite for a tax on gas exports, days before the Labor Party's National Conference in Adelaide.
According to the most recent Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) data from 2018, theft is the largest source of new illicit weapons in Australia. Every theft adds more guns to the over 200,000 illicit firearms in Australia. Fewer legally owned firearms means there are fewer firearms that can be stolen.
Australian parliaments inherited an ancient power from the United Kingdom’s House of Commons: the order for the production of documents (or OPD). These orders require the government to hand over to the Parliament (and make public) documents, reports, data and any other kind of information.
Former defence minister Christopher Pyne has declared the $368 billion AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine program “unstoppable”, telling a public inquiry Parliament should have no role in deciding Australia’s national security arrangements.
