Opinions
OPINION
5 new Australian publishers are making defiant, weird, grass-roots books
Perentie Press, Pink Shorts Press, Evercreech Editions, Aniko Press and Bakers Lane Books.
OPINION
Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy
It is rare to be able to identify the moment when we can say “this is the point at which everything changed”.
OPINION
The juxtaposition of Labor's climate policies is staggering – so absurd it almost defies belief
Think about this when climate change minister Chris Bowen announces Labor’s “ambitious” targets for reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions soon.
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 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
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
Business groups want the government to overhaul the tax system? Excellent – we have some ideas
The landslide win by the ALP has seen business groups come out demanding the government listen to their demands despite having provided them no support, and plenty of opposition, over the past 3 years.
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
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.
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The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers
Australia can be a leader in this space, not a follower.
