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Failed logging agreement to be extended

Environment groups have raised concerns about the Victorian and federal governments鈥 decision to extend the East Gippsland Regional Forest Agreement (RFA).聽

The RFA is a 20-year agreement between state and federal governments that exempts logging from compliance with federal environment law if the state implements measures to protect federally-listed threatened species.聽

Goongerah Environment Centre spokesperson Ed Hill said: 鈥淪ince the RFA was signed 20 years ago, federally-listed threatened species have dramatically declined.

NTEU responds to University of Sydney鈥檚 鈥榮pill and fill鈥 tactic

President of the University of Sydney branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Kurt Iveson spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Rachel Evans about the university鈥檚 鈥渟pill and fill鈥 tactic.

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What is happening to science administration staff? Have 110 staff been sacked?

Terry Townsend needs your help

After a 16-month battle to survive and then recover from a major brain hemorrhage in August 2015, long-time 91自拍论坛 Weekly journalist and seller Terry Townsend is at last able to move out of the nursing home to live in his own home again.

Now he needs your help to ensure he is not confined there for the rest of his life, can reconnect with comrades and friends, and participate in political activities again.

Where does right-wing populism come from and how can we defeat it?

The seeds of the current crisis of confidence in the capitalist parties in Australia go back to the 1980s when the Bob Hawke Labor government implemented its version of Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 neoliberal economic policies. The Hawke government also managed to achieve what previous Coalition governments had failed to do 鈥 seriously weaken the union movement.

While these reforms did not immediately create right-wing populism, once the reforms started to really bite by the late 1990s, it began to develop around Pauline Hanson.

Spain: Podemos at the crossroads

The left-wing anti-austerity party Podemos is planning to hold its second country-wide citizens鈥 assembly (Vistalegre II) on February 11th-12th to decide the political direction, organisational structure and its electoral strategy for the next regional and general elections.

Three ingredients for a successful environmental campaign

A battle is raging over a known as Roe 8.

Record-busting heat as climate warming goes extreme

Last year was by far the hottest year in the observation record, with the global average surface temperature 1.24掳 Celcuis warmer than the late nineteenth century, according to . This broke the record set the previous year of 1.12掳C, which in turn broke the previous mark set in 2014 of 1.01掳C.

Although the El Nino conditions of 2015鈥16 had some influence 鈥 perhaps 0.2掳C 鈥 it is clear that the warming trend is 1掳C or more.

Climate change plays havoc with Pacific weather

Global warming has already increased the risk of major disruptions to Pacific rainfall, according to our . The risk will continue to rise over coming decades, even if global warming during the 21st century is restricted to 2鈩僥lcius.

Global inequality: Capitalism is to blame

The Occupy movement, which started as a protest against Wall Street, but ballooned across the US and internationally in 2011, adopted the slogan 鈥淲e are the 99%鈥 to symbolise the struggle for a better world against the greed of 鈥渢he 1%鈥. Some people at the time thought it was an exaggeration to talk about the 1% versus the 99%, but according to Oxfam, since 2015, that richest 1% has owned more wealth than the rest of the planet combined.

Anglesea Heathlands to be included in Great Otway National Park

The Victorian government has announced it will amend the National Parks Act in May to include the Anglesea Heathlands in the Great Otway National Park.

鈥淧rotection of Victoria鈥檚 richest and most diverse vegetation community, the Anglesea Heathlands, was long overdue,鈥 Victorian National Parks Association executive director Matt Ruchel said on February 2.

鈥淔or decades we have campaigned with the Geelong Environment Council and local group ANGAIR to have the Anglesea Heathlands protected.

WA activists demand details on national disability scheme

The dual trial of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Western Australia has ended with a bilateral agreement signed on February 1 by the WA state and federal governments.

The WA model got the guernsey and will be locally run and administered. Starting in July, it will be rolled out to an estimated 39,000 people over the next three years. WA will pay all the administration and operating costs but governance responsibilities will be shared nationally.

Dave Zirin: Political fervour thrums beneath Super Bowl鈥檚 surface

The New England Patriots won the NFL Super Bowl 34鈥28, in the most gobsmacking, unfathomable comeback in Super Bowl history. Down 28鈥3 against the Atlanta Falcons, they came all the back to win in overtime in Houston, Texas on February 5.

That will mean joy in the White House 鈥 as Donald Trump鈥檚 favourite American Football team is victorious. It is also joy for Patriots player Martellus Bennett, who won鈥檛 be joining the team upon their inevitable White House visit, in protest against the man inhabiting that space.