The May budget is just days away at time of writing, so while I don't know its exact details, I feel I can safely take an educated guess and suggest it probably won't include a fully-costed plan for a rapid transition to a post-carbon, zero emissions economy based on 100% renewable energy.
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Queensland's first large-scale solar farm run by a local government 鈥 saving the council $22 million in electricity costs over 30 years 鈥 is being built on the Sunshine Coast.
The 15-megawatt solar farm will be built on 50 hectares behind Coolum, will be financed by the council after the federal government refused to fund it.
It will provide green power by mid-2017 and will slash the council's costs of buying electricity for everything including streets lights, sports facilities, buildings, galleries, parks and libraries.
A small room on a rooftop in the occupied Gaza Strip鈥檚 crowded Beach refugee camp resembles a miniature archaeological museum. It is the workshop of Nafez Abed, 55, who studies archaeological artefacts in order to replicate them in exquisite detail.
The Rana Plaza murders will not be forgotten: this was the message of a small but spirited rally on April 13 in Melbourne鈥檚 Bourke Street Mall.
Organised by the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) and other labour activists, the rally commemorated the third anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in which 1134 Bangladeshi sweatshop workers lost their lives and 2500 others were injured.
The Rana Plaza murders will not be forgotten: this was the message of a small but spirited rally on April 13 in Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall.
From May 4 to 16 a global wave of mass community direct action will target the world鈥檚 most dangerous fossil fuel projects with a clear message: keep them in the ground and speed up the transition to 100% renewable energy.
Dire warnings from the federal government that property prices will fall and rents will soar if negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts are reduced have been found to be untrue by a Grattan Institute report.
It also found the government鈥檚 claim that 鈥渕um and dad investors鈥 were its biggest beneficiaries was untrue.
In fact it found that negative gearing largely benefited the wealthy, with the top 10% of income earners getting almost half of the tax benefits before rental deductions.
In many ways, environment minister Greg Hunt's attendance at the New York signing of the Paris Agreement on April 21 underscored the Coalition government's resistance to in taking real action to curb toxic carbon dioxide emissions.
The election is coming! Roll out the pork barrels! What a sickeningly familiar pattern we are witnessing as DD-Day approaches.
Last week, the Malcolm Turnbull government's front bench went into an ecstatic chorus about the $50 billion deal to build submarines. It was said to be an investment in jobs bigger than the epic post-World War II Snowy Mountains Scheme.
Residents of public housing towers in Waterloo, inner Sydney, rallied on April 23 against the NSW Coalition government's plan to forcibly evict tenants so it can sell off their homes.
The community is fighting the government's plan to begin relocating residents from mid-next year, before demolishing the Waterloo apartment towers to build new private high-rise apartments.
As South Australia's economy continues to tank, local business leaders and the state Labor government have snatched at the nuclear option.
Leading the hopes for salvation is a proposal for a giant underground waste dump to store some of the world's spent reactor fuel.
We arrived at twilight and put up our tents using the headlights from the car. A young man at the camp helped us with threading those damned rods with elastic bits through the tape slots on the tent. We had just got it up when we heard a bell ring for the evening meal. The meal was delicious, catering for both vegetarians and meat eaters.
In 1989, 96 fans of Liverpool FC were crushed to death in a disaster at the Hillsborough Football Stadium in Sheffield.
Neglect of stadium conditions, lack of concern for the welfare of working-class football fans and 鈥 specifically 鈥 woeful dereliction of duty by South Yorkshire Police on the day all led directly to one of the world鈥檚 worst football tragedies.
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