The growing movement to increase health equity

The evidence is clear and health professionals are taking notice, writes Melissa Sweet. Now it’s time for government to act

19 Apr 13 | Comments (0)

Force of nature

Australian journalist Natalie Bennett has big ambitions for Britain’s Green Party. Carmela Ferraro talked to her in London

17 Apr 13 | Comments (0)

Noisily flows the Manning

A river community’s campaign to stop coal-seam gas captures the new face of rural politics in Australia, writes Robert Milliken

05 Mar 13 | Comments (2)

The humility of local consciousness

Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks Jane Goodall

13 Feb 13 | Comments (1)

Shades of green, black and white

David Bowman considers the environmental politics of managing Indigenous lands

07 Feb 13 | Comments (0)

Can we afford to get back on the rails?

Australia’s largest cities still rely heavily on massive investments in rail before the second world war. With renewed interest in rail as a way of dealing with congestion, Peter Mares looks at what history can tell us about the value of reinvesting in railways

12 Dec 12 | Comments (1)

The disturbing logic of “Stay or Go”

The experts driving Australia’s bushfire policies won’t acknowledge that different forests produce different fires, writes Tom Griffiths

22 Nov 12 | Comments (1)

Time for a national oceans plan

Public debate about the super trawler FV Abel Tasman and new national marine reserves have highlighted major flaws in the way Australia manages its ocean resources, writes Amanda Cornwall

21 Sep 12 | Comments (0)

Climate policy and our sphere of influence

Our policies have focused on the small portion of emissions that we account for within Australia. It’s time to start thinking about how we can influence emissions beyond our borders, argues Fergus Green

02 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Carbon trading and innovation: bridging the gap

Tony Wood proposes an innovative solution to a hard climate policy problem

19 Jul 12 | Comments (2)

The sense of islandness

Ian McShane reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state

28 Jun 12 | Comments (0)

Don’t mention the floor

Amid tumbling international carbon markets and calls to weaken the carbon pricing scheme, Fergus Green makes the case for retaining an Australian carbon price floor

14 Jun 12 | Comments (0)

Looking for an island circuit-breaker

Although the forestry agreement is looking shaky, innovative projects are flourishing in Tasmania, writes Natasha Cica. Strategic assistance could speed the move to a different kind of economy

24 May 12 | Comments (1)

Not so fast to the green scheme graveyard

As politicians take the razor to state and federal “complementary” climate policies, Fergus Green examines their role with the federal carbon price looming

30 Apr 12 | Comments (0)

Thus began the Australian occupation of Antarctica…

Tom Griffiths was on board the Aurora Australis as it sailed south to Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Douglas Mawson’s historic expedition. Once again, a complex interplay of science and sovereignty was at work

24 Feb 12 | Comments (1)

A world of our own making

Without realising it, we seem to have entered a new geological epoch. Brett Evans looks at how we got there and what it means

17 Feb 12 | Comments (0)

Sarawak’s roads to development

Logging has changed remote Sarawak in many ways, but the aftermath can produce a new kind of isolation, writes Christine Horn

03 Feb 12 | Comments (0)

The failure of “treaties, targets and trading” and the future of Australian climate policy

In the first of a two-part series examining the future of Australian climate policy, Fergus Green explains why the international policy consensus, on which Australia has based its carbon pricing scheme, has broken down

02 Feb 12 | Comments (0)

“Preserved for the people for all time”

Is “balanced” development really the best way to manage our inland rivers? Cameron Muir looks at the language that could save or condemn them

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What Durban revealed about climate’s shifting allegiances

Canada’s reversal on Kyoto won’t undermine the sense that the Durban climate conference achieved more than many expected, writes Michael Jacobs

14 Dec 11 | Comments (0)