Opinions
OPINION
What Australia does matters, and nowhere more so than on climate
The Australian Government’s decision to approve Woodside’s NWS export project is a disaster.
OPINION
For the sake of taxpayers, let’s hope that the Audit Office is inspecting the AUKUS books closely.
Australian money is flushing into the US submarine construction system – a billion USD so far, with another billion by year’s end. And what will Australia have to show for it? Nothing.
OPINION
What matters for the country is not that differences of opinion exist in political parties, but how those differences are managed
The Australian Labor Party is as much a broad church as John Howard once proclaimed the Liberal Party to be.
OPINION
Expensive, publicly-funded Carbon Capture & Storage is barely visible in new emissions data
The Australian government needs to put a stop to new coal and gas projects, instead of granting operators new ways to shuffle pieces on the board, and CCS offsets simply shouldn’t exist.
OPINION
In politics, you can be so sharp you cut yourself
Look at how state governments have fiddled with the preferential voting system, only to suffer from the changes they introduced.
OPINION
A fair go for temporary workers from the Pacific
On a whistlestop tour of Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu in May, Foreign Minister Penny Wong wanted to focus on climate change, security, and aid funding.
OPINION
The rise of early voting in Australian elections
Are voters missing out on more than their democracy sausage?
