The Green Devil – Australia’s One Man Environmental Wrecking Crew
Tony Abbott is a man going to war. His chosen target is Australia’s environment and, according to Foreign Policy, he means to do it in. Located at the bottom of…
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The Chunder Down Under
Let’s get this unpleasantness out of the way. “Chunder” is an Australian colloquialism for vomit, puke. The latest chunder from Down Under comes to us via Tony Abbott’s chief business…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joseph Stiglitz writes that while we should expect natural resources to result in broad-based prosperity, Australia (much like Canada) is now turning toward…
Solar Has Won
In Australia the amount of energy being produced by sustainable systems caused the price to fall so low it went in to the negative. This will not be the last…
Stephen Harper and the Groupie from Down Under
Well he may be making a fool of himself on the world stage. Posing as a champion of democracy and Vladimir Putin's worst nightmare. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Russian…
Keep Your Coins, I Want Change
by meek in Melbourne, Australia
New Zealand – Australia’s Climate Change Lifeboat
Australia is somewhat ahead of the global average for climate change temperature rise. The country just passed the 1C mark. There’s obviously plenty more heat on the way in the…
Denialists Are Not Skeptics, Even When You Turn the Planet Upside Down.
Maybe the time has come when the onus of proof should shift off the shoulders of climate science and onto the shoulders of the denialist community. You say it’s all…
Sometimes the Low Numbers Matter Too
2013 was the hottest year in Australia’s recorded history. We know that the country is setting new records this year. Sometimes, though, there’s as much to be learned by looking…
Canada-Australia climate axis—greatest threat to global security?
Prime Minister Harper once announced that the greatest threat to global security was terrorism. That was nonsense of course—every year, malaria kills approximately 660,000 people, mostly children, and AIDS 1,700,000…
If This is Fact, We Need to Rethink Our Bitumen Policy, Pipelines Included.
Word is coming out of the discovery of a truly massive, shale oil field in Australia that’s expected to produce from 233 upwards to 400-billion barrels of crude oil. That’s…
What Lurks Down Under
By some accounts Australians have become the wealthiest people on earth, largely from flogging massive quantities to coal to China. Yet not all Australians are well off, especially not the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – thwap highlights the cycle of austerity, stagnation and decline that’s marked the past few decades across much of the developed world. And Thomas…
Australia Feels the Heat
Australians may have elected a climate change denier, Tony Abbott, as their prime minister but that’s not going to make their climate change problems go away. The Hong Kong and…
"Unequivocal"
Leaving no doubt; clear; unambiguous. The latest IPCC report concludes that mankind’s influence in driving climate change is beyond doubt, clear and unambiguous. Anthropogenic global warming is here, it’s here…
Australia—a win for Tony Abbott (and Richard Murdoch)
By all accounts Tony Abbott waged a highly effective campaign in leading his Liberal (conservative) Party to victory in the Australian election on Saturday. And it didn’t hurt that he…
Monday Morning Links
This and that for your Labour Day reading. – Jared Bernstein writes about the fight for fair wages in the U.S. fast food and retail industries. And Karen McVeigh notes…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Simon Enoch nicely challenges the City of Regina’s blind faith in “risk transfer” by pointing out how that concept has typically been applied…
Puncturing The Myth That Raising Minimum Wages Will Kill Jobs
The question of minimum wage has been very much a topic of discussion in alternative media of late, and I have written a few posts about the struggle. I am…