Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.

He could have used law enforcement to protect homeowners from bank fraud. He didn't.

British intelligence warns that climate and ecosystem collapse could drive conflict, migration, famine and economic instability. Yet governments continue to conceal the full scale of the threat.

While plans are afoot to assign an Indigenous dual name to Australia's highest mainland peak, there is disagreement over the one currently under consideration.

As plantations supply more of Australia’s timber, how they are established and harvested will increasingly shape biodiversity. Good management can make a substantial difference.

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There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair? The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for approving the largest coalmine in New South Wales history in the context of mounting death, disaster and despair brought on by global heating reads like a hostage statement. In its decision, the commission accepts that the extension of the Hunter Valley Operations’ mine for a further 19 years – resulting 809m tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution – will materially worsen global warming. The panel members cite CSIRO’s finding that climate change is having a growing effect on the lives and livelihoods of all Australians and that the severity of that impact “will depend on the speed at which global greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced”. They reject the idea that keeping HVO’s coal in the ground would make no difference to global warming. Continue reading...

New research looking into the US government-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shows when aid is handed over to corporations, civilians pay the price.

Coverage falls a million square kilometres short of long-term average with global heating likely driving losses

Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales independent planner has approved the biggest coalmine project to ever go before it, allowing mining to continue until 2045 at a Hunter Valley project described by climate groups as a “carbon bomb”. The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has green lit the Hunter Valley Operations Continuation Project after a contentious assessment that drew in climate and environment groups, unions, state authorities and more than 10,000 public submissions. Continue reading...

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Sure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism.

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The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations