Labor鈥檚 decision to extend Woodside鈥檚 North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.
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Climate protesters chanted 鈥淵ancoal, No way! End mining coal today!鈥 outside the company鈥檚 annual general meeting at Darling Harbour in Gadigal Country/Sydney. Jim McIlroy reports.
Long-range forecasters, analysing AI models and satellite data, had warned of the latest developing catastrophic weather event weeks ahead, but governments did little. Just as well communities pull together, writes Peter Perkins.
Labor looks set to abolish the modest 鈥淣ature Positive鈥 reforms to climate law that it suggested during its first term, after environment minister Murray Watt approved Woodside's LNG North West Shelf expansion. Pip Hinman reports.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on the German peasants鈥 war, air, Amazonian struggles, climate history, class rule and Karl Marx鈥檚 later views on oppression and revolution.
Polly Cutmore, a Traditional Gomeroi Owner, has rejected the Native Title Tribunal鈥檚 findings that the NSW government can lease the Pilliga Forest for its 850-well coal seam gas mining project. Kerry Smith reports.
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The campaign to establish a Richmond River Koala park is gaining momentum, with a coalition of local conservation groups pushing for NSW Labor to act on its promises. Kerry Smith reports.
Given that renewable energy has become the cheapest energy source in recent years, it should be supplanting fossil fuels. But, as Brett Christopher points out in The Price is Wrong, contemporary neoliberal capitalism does not operate on such logic. Neville Spencer reviews Christopher鈥檚 book.
A catastrophic algal bloom 鈥 fuelled by warming oceans and calm marine conditions 鈥 is killing marine life on the shores of South Australia on an unprecedented scale. Tracey Carpenter reports.
First Nations people, unionists and environmental activists took their protest about Santos鈥 coal seam gas plans in the Pilliga Forest to NSW parliament, ahead of a decision by the听Native Title Tribunal. Jim McIlroy reports.
Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist.听
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