Australia鈥檚 Chief Scientist Alan Finkel presented the , known as the Finkel Review, to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Leaders鈥 meeting on June 9.
The mainstream media has focused on one recommendation 鈥 a Clean Energy Target 鈥 and the Coalition鈥檚 reaction.
Under President Barack Obama, the US acknowledged killing between 2867 and 3138 people in strikes in countries like聽Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.
In the聽waning days of his presidency, Obama took some steps to聽improve聽transparency about drone strikes, including providing the total estimated death toll. However, a new report by the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic and the Sana鈥檃 Center for Strategic Studies says that the US聽is still lagging in providing a full accounting of its drone program.
The first round France鈥檚 National Assembly elections have been marked by record abstention of 51.29% of the electorate.
The abstentionism primarily impacted on the far-right and left parties. Meanwhile, recently elected President Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 The Republic on the March (LREM) and its allies look to secure a strong parliamentary majority in the second round of elections on June 18.
After the recent spate of murders in Manchester, London and Melbourne people are increasingly asking what the past 20 years of the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 has done besides making the world a more dangerous, divided and fearful place.
The recent British general election delivered very different results in Scotland than those of England and Wales.
While the question of Scottish independence was still a major issue for voters, tactical errors by the Scottish National Party (SNP) and a muted Jeremy Corbyn-effect in Scottish Labour鈥檚 favour led to some unforeseen outcomes.
Proposed new logging rules for NSW public land will convert much of the north coast's public forests into 鈥渜uasi-plantations鈥, reduce buffers on vital headwater streams and remove protections from most threatened animals and plants.
The proposed changes remove the need to look for and protect most threatened plants and animals. Only 14 animal species and populations are to retain their current protection, 23 will have their protection removed and 26 will have their protection significantly reduced.
Last November, two-thirds of the 350 members of a South Australian-government initiated rejected "under any circumstances" the plan to import high-level nuclear waste from around the world as a money-making venture.
Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil has taken over two exploration permits from BP and plans to begin drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight by late next year.
Statoil and BP have signed a swap agreement covering four offshore petroleum titles. Under the deal Statoil transferred its 30% equity in two of its permits to BP and exited the licences. In return, BP has given its 70% equity in two other permits to Statoil and relinquished those licences.
鈥淒on鈥檛 let the 91自拍论坛 Weekly have its own way,鈥 was the headline of Murdoch columnist Miranda Devine in a June 14 , and my first thought was: 鈥淪he鈥檚 right.鈥
The year 1917 offered an extraordinary course in political literacy for the people of Russia.
In the February anti-Tsarist revolution, which 鈥渄ispensed breakneck with a half millennium of autocratic rule鈥, and then in the October socialist revolution, eager workers and peasants stumbled over and then mastered a new way to speak of economic and political democracy, writes China Mieville in October, his narrative of the Russian Revolution.
Environmental approval for the expansion of Adani鈥檚 coal port at Abbot Point was ruled lawful in the Queensland Supreme Court on June 15.
Local group Whitsunday Residents Against Dumping (WRAD) had challenged the legality of the Queensland government鈥檚 decision to approve the controversial Abbot Point coal terminal expansion in Queensland鈥檚 Supreme Court on October 7.
In a statement to the Senate on June 13, the federal government confirmed it will sell uranium to Ukraine despite significant safety and security concerns raised by the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT).
In February a JSCOT investigation found that existing safeguards were 鈥渘ot sufficient鈥 and there was a risk Australian nuclear material would disappear in Ukraine.