While homes are in ruins, residents displaced and fingers pointed regarding the recent Maribyrnong floods, one question is everywhere: did a wall built to protect Flemington Racecourse make it worse?
State governments are passing draconian laws that are turning environmental groups away from direct action, as climate change makes their campaigns more urgent than ever.
While state MPs keep backing the destruction of native forest for woodchips and paper pulp, a once-divided timber region is getting out of native logging.
The captain who founded militant anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has been forced out of the organisation, which he says has become ‘Uber’ for bureaucrats.
Changes to the safeguard mechanism are expected to finally establish a model that effectively cuts Australia’s emissions, although there is a ‘shit fight’ ahead as baselines are set for each industry.
As Tanya Plibersek grants final approval for a fertiliser plant on the Burrup Peninsula, Woodside has quietly begun expansion of its enormous Pluto gas project.
In approving almost 47,000 square kilometres for offshore oil and gas exploration, the Labor government is jeopardising its climate target and echoing the Coalition’s spurious case for energy security.
As flood-affected communities fear the beginning of a third consecutive La Niña event, scientists are looking at the patterns of our oceans for clues on what to expect.
