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Refugees
- Organisations
- Integration
- ‘We owe Australia alot’: Refugee community donates $160,000 to bushfire relief, offers up tradies (Jan ’20)
- Refugees without secure visas have poorer mental health – but the news isn’t all bad (Dec ’19)
- New Australians feel abandoned as they battle social isolation, struggle to find employment (Oct ’19)
- … (related)
- Medivac Legislation
- Manus Island
- Last asylum seekers held in Papua New Guinea detention centre released (Jan ’20)
- How many more people must die on Manus before Australia ends indefinite detention? – Behrouz Boochani (Jun ’19)
- The Paladin scandal is only a drop in the ocean of corruption on Manus and Nauru – Behrouz Boochani (Mar ’19)
- Stories
- ‘Finally, a life’: Canada comes to the rescue when a refugee family loses hope in Australia (Feb ’20)
- Iranian refugee fire fighter battles NSW blazes (Jan ’20)
- These women traveled 4 hrs with 5 trucks of supplies to cook food for 150 tired Australian firefighters (Jan ’20)
- ‘I had no choice but to quit study and save my life’: A Syrian refugee’s road to graduation (Dec ’19)
- ‘I knew people who had harder lives than me’ – the Syrian refugee child who started a school (Dec ’17)
- Reports
- Behrouz Boochani
- Christmas Island
- Refugee Advocacy
- Immigration Policy
- Policy Forum: Responsibility Sharing or Responsibility Shedding? Australia’s Refugee Policies in the Asia Pacific (Mar ’20)
- Dutton Slammed for Locking Up a Blind, Mentally Ill Refugee for a Decade (Feb ’20)
- High court rules Aboriginal Australians are not ‘aliens’ under the constitution and cannot be deported (Feb ’20)
- 98-year-old grandmother faces deportation to India after living in Australia for 12 years (Jan ’20)
- A ‘Fair Share Agreement’ for refugee resettlements (Jan ’20)
- More asylum seekers arrive on planes amid trafficking fears (Dec ’19)
- The government wants to privatise visa processing. Who will be held accountable when something goes wrong? (Dec ’19)
- ‘Doctors and engineers end up driving taxis’: The uphill battle facing migrants to Australia (Oct ’19)
- Why cutting Australia’s migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade (Dec ’18)
- Blocking Disabled People from Coming to Australia (May ’19)
Offshore/Onshore Detention
- Offshore Detention (including Onshore Detention)
- ‘We are sitting ducks for Covid 19’: asylum seekers write to PM after detainee tested in immigration detention (Mar ’20)
- Home affairs fought for three years to stop Serco detention centre manual release (Mar ’20)
- ‘People are crying and begging’: the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention (Mar ’20)
- Three-year-old Australian girl in Syria’s al-Hawl camp may lose fingers to frostbite (Feb ’20)
- Australia’s offshore detention is unlawful, says international criminal court prosecutor (Feb ’20)
- Australia Put Hundreds Of Women On A Tiny Island. There Are Just Eight Left. (Feb ’20)
- Leaked photos of Papua New Guinea prison reveal ‘torture’ of 18 asylum seekers cut off from world (Jan ’20)
- As a refugee detained indefinitely by Australia, I wish you a happy new year (Jan ’20)
- Man waits years for hepatitis C medication after immigration detention transfer (Oct ’19)
- The Truth about Border Protections (Sep ’19)
- Immigration deadlock as 50 asylum seekers detained indefinitely for being stateless (Sep ’19)
- Australia’s Shame (Sep ’19)
- Two-year-old in immigration detention forced to have rotting teeth surgically removed (Jul ’19)
Biloela Family
- Biloela Family
- How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system (Mar ’20)
- Biloela family may spend months more on Christmas Island waiting on court decision (Feb ’20)
- How two women from a conservative Queensland town made the deportation of a local Tamil family national news (Feb ’20)
- What will happen to the Biloela family held on Christmas Island? (Feb ’20)
- Judge tells government to give documents to Biloela family’s lawyer after ‘overenthusiastic’ redactions (Feb ’20)
- Advocates demand Tamil family be removed from Christmas Island before Wuhan evacuees arrive (Feb ’20)
- Biloela family wait in Christmas Island limbo as Wuhan evacuees see out quarantine (Feb ’20)
- Four-year-old Christmas Island detainee to be escorted to first day of school by guards (Jan ’20)
- Australia has ignored the UN’s request to release the Tamil family from Christmas Island (Oct ’19)
- ‘Fast track’ asylum processing risks fairness for efficiency (Dec ’14)
Indigenous
- Treaty
- Justice System
- ACT prison officers’ drawing of Aboriginal inmate ‘racist and hurtful’ (Mar ’20)
- Being Aboriginal with a disability a ‘double whammy’, royal commission told (Feb ’20)
- Coalition seeks to sidestep high court ruling that Aboriginal non-citizens can’t be deported (Feb ’20)
- Can Indigenous Australians be deported as ‘aliens’? A High Court decision will show us the strength of modern colonial power (Dec ’19)
- Shackling dying man Eric Whittaker to bed was ‘horrific’, coroner hears (Oct ’19)
- Inequality (Closing the Gap)
- Scott Morrison wants Indigenous people to help with Closing the Gap. They already are (Mar ’20)
- Even education has been used as a weapon of white supremacy in Australia (Jul ’19)
- Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine – here’s what it means for equality (Sep ‘ 19)
- June Oscar’s 2020s vision: Reaching our potential as a nation begins with truth-telling (Jan ’20)
- The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery (Nov ’19)
- History
- Massacres
- The Pinjarra massacre: it’s time to speak the truth of this terrible slaughter (Nov ’19)
- Blood, brains and foul murder: evidence of Australia’s massacres is in its newspapers (Nov ’19)
- Forced to build their own pyres: dozens more Aboriginal massacres revealed in Killing Times research (Nov ’19)
- The Killing Times (Nov ’19)
- Invasion Day
- Inclusion
- Stolen Generation
- Health Care
Mental Health
- Conversations
- We face a pandemic of mental health disorders. Those who do it hardest need our support (Mar ‘20)
- How do you start a conversation about mental health with someone who is depressed? (Oct ’19)
- Why I won’t tell someone who’s suicidal to ‘just ask for help’ (Aug ’19)
- Getting serious about mental health – Prof. Ian Hickie (Jan ’11)
- Causes
- Prevention
- Raise the Medicare levy to pay for mental health, says Victoria (Feb ’20)
- Middle-aged men make up the largest age-specific increase in suicides, but we can learn from history (Feb ’20)
- We need to move on from self-care to something that cannot be captured by capitalism (Jan ’20)
- 3 in 4 people with a mental illness develop symptoms before age 25. We need a stronger focus on prevention (Nov ’19)
- Support
- Myths
- Stories
- Discrimination
Environment/Climate Emergency
- Organisations
- Inaction
- NSW land-clearing approvals increased 13-fold since laws relaxed in 2016 (Mar ‘20)
- 30 years of Australia’s hollow promises on climate policy (Feb ’20)
- Our government is choosing to fail on climate and trying to make a virtue of it (Jan ’20)
- Talking Point: Governments face a reckoning in the courts over climate change failure (Jan ’20)
- Coalition claims it will meet 2030 emissions target – but only by using accounting loophole (Dec ’19)
- It’s the 10-year anniversary of our climate policy abyss. But don’t blame the Greens (Dec ’19)
- We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong (Oct ’19)
- Reports
- Great Barrier Reef ‘too big to fail’ at $56b, Deloitte Access Economics report says (Jun ’17)
- Liberal Party links to coal industry – report (May ’19)
- Methane emissions from coalmines could stoke climate crisis – study (Nov ’19)
- Climate Change Performance Index – Australia ranked last (Dec ’19)
- Climate Contagion – Paul Gilding (Dec ’19)
- World Reaction
- Australia, your country is burning – dangerous climate change is here with you now – Michael Mann (Jan ’20)
- Australia is becoming a nation of dread – and the world looks on with pity and scorn (Jan ’20)
- Scientists hate to say ‘I told you so’. But Australia, you were warned (Jan ’20)
- Wake up, Australia: deceit and post-truth politics will not save you from the flames (Dec ’19)
- Cover Ups
- Conversations
- Community Action
- Outlook
Australia – Environment
- Australia’s Climate Emergency
- Will the coronavirus kill the oil industry and help save the climate? (APR ’20)
- Carbon emissions fall as electricity producers move away from coal (Mar ’20)
- Transport is letting Australia down in the race to cut emissions (Mar ’20)
- How the Beetaloo gas field could jeopardise Australia’s emissions target (Feb ’20)
- Collinsville: the Queensland town on the frontline of the coal wars (Feb ’20)
- Anthony Albanese backs Adani coalmine but criticises proposed Collinsville power plant (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison is stuck in a time warp – more gas is not the answer (Feb ’20)
- Finding a way through the Overton climate window is the only way forward (Jan ’20)
- If you love Australia, climate change should scare the hell out of you (Jan ’20)
- Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide – Richard Flanagan (Jan ’20)
- When it comes to emissions, the ‘too small to matter’ argument is absurd, reckless and morally bankrupt (Jan’20)
- Queensland government was warned about risks of Chinese company’s water extraction (Jan ’20)
- Morrison is dangerously wrong on gas, and needs to wake up to new technologies (Jan ’20)
- Grattan on Friday: Climate winds blowing on Morrison from Liberal party’s left (Dec’19)
- On land, Australia’s rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it’s worse. (Dec ’19)
- Scott Morrison and the big lie about climate change: does he think we’re that stupid? (Nov ’19)
- We push fossil fuels with the zeal of a drug lord – we do not care about the misery we are creating – Greg Bourne (Nov ’19)
- World heritage Queensland rainforest burned for 10 days – and almost no one noticed (Nov ’19)
- Stripped bare: Australia’s hidden climate crisis (Oct ’19)
- Revealed: northern Australia’s fossil fuel plans push climate goals beyond reach (Oct ’19)
- National Party MPs call for more dams as states invest in other solutions to Australia’s water crisis (Oct ’19)
- Coal miners and urban greenies have one thing in common, and Labor must use it (Oct ’19)
- We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong (Oct ’19)
- We are talking about ‘drought-proofing’ again (Sep ’19)
- Five climate change science misconceptions – debunked (Sep ’19)
- Up to 1 million animal species may be at risk of disappearing (May ’19)
- Enough scandalous time-wasting on climate change. Let’s get back to the facts (Mar ’19)
- It’d be wonderful if the claims made about carbon capture were true (Feb ’18)
- South Korea’s Ahn Hee-Jung on coal trade: after Paris ‘everything should change’ (Feb ’18)
- Clean coal explained: Why emissions reductions from coal remain a pipe dream (Feb ’17)
- Scientists bitter over interference (Feb ’06)
Climate Emergency (Rest of the World)
- Rest of the World / UN
- For Mumbai’s slum-dwellers, climate change is slicing away the haves from the have-nots (Mar ’20)
- Poor water infrastructure is greater risk than coronavirus, says UN (Mar ‘ 20)
- Climate emergency: global action is ‘way off track’ says UN head (Mar ’20)
- Germany is shutting down its coal industry for good, so far without sacking a single worker (Feb ’20)
- Climate change could lead to extinction of bumblebees, Canadian research finds (Feb ’20)
- About 100 countries at UN climate talks challenge Australia’s use of carryover credits (Dec ’19)
- Australia’s use of accounting loophole to meet Paris deal found to have no legal basis (Dec ’19)
- ‘This place used to be green’: the brutal impact of oil in the Niger Delta (Dec ’19)
- Australia ranked worst of 57 countries on climate change policy (Dec ’19)
- ‘4°C of global warming is optimal’ – even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong (Nov ’19)
- Firms ignoring climate crisis will go bankrupt, says Mark Carney (Oct ’19)
- In its insatiable pursuit of power, Silicon Valley is fuelling the climate crisis (Oct ’19)
- Major US companies ask Congress to put a price on carbon (May ’19)
- UK becomes first country to declare a ‘climate emergency’ (May ’19)
- Is sea level rising?
- U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked (Jun ’89)
Climate Emergency Scientific Opinion and Papers
- The Science
- While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction (Apr ’20)
- Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics (Mar ‘20)
- Coronavirus: ‘Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief (Mar ‘20)
- From 2014 to 2015 I approached the world’s leading climate scientists and asked them to respond to one simple question: (How Does It Feel?)
- ‘I’m profoundly sad, I feel guilty’: scientists reveal personal fears about the climate crisis (Mar ’20)
- 222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future generations (Feb ’20)
- Dr Alan Finkel: ‘All problems can be solved but this is a complex problem’ (Feb ’20)
- Scientists call on MPs to urgently reduce Australia’s emissions amid bushfire crisis (Feb ’20)
- The world has made the link between Australian coal, fires and climate (Jan ’20)
- Leading scientists condemn political inaction on climate change as Australia ‘literally burns’ (Dec ’19)
- The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate (Jul ’19)
- Climate change damage to Queensland’s world heritage rainforest ‘as bad as Great Barrier Reef’ (Apr ’19)
- This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because of Sexism (Dec ’16)
Bushfires
- Bushfires
- Smoke from Australia’s bushfires killed far more people than the fires did, study says (Mar ’20)
- State MPs dismayed at NSW Forestry logging unburnt habitat after bushfires (Mar ’20)
- ‘We’re all just waiting’: NSW south coast residents still in limbo three months after bushfires (Mar ’20)
- How to get back to normal after the bushfires? ‘I feel life has changed into a Mad Max movie’ (Mar ’20)
- Bushfire crisis conditions eight times more likely under 2C warming, analysis shows (Mar ’20)
- Defence Chief Angus Campbell rang Scott Morrison with concerns over bushfire promo video (Mar ’20)
- … (related)
- Will we learn from the bushfire summer? Not if the wrong questions are asked (Feb ’20)
- The burn legacy: why the science on hazard reduction is contested (Feb ’20)
- Peter Dutton says 250 have been charged with arson. But the data tells a different story (Feb ’20)
- I spent weeks reporting on the bushfires. This is the truth about regional Australia (Feb ’20)
- No food, no fuel, no phones: bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse (Feb ’20)
- ‘Go back home’: NZ vet turned away from helping fire-affected Aussie wildlife (Feb ’20)
- Thomas Keneally: ‘These fires have changed us’ (Feb ’20)
- Lots of people want to help nature after the bushfires – we must seize the moment (Feb ’20)
- In the face of a bushfire catastrophe, our national conversation is still run by politics – Laura Tingle (Jan ’20)
- I tried to warn Scott Morrison about the bushfire disaster. Adapting to climate change isn’t enough (Jan ’20)
- There’s no evidence ‘greenies’ block bushfire hazard reduction but here’s a controlled burn idea worth trying (Jan ’20)
- In fact, there’s plenty we can do to make future fires less likely (Jan ’20)
- An ‘absolutely seminal moment’: climate change opinion shifting in face of fires (Jan ’20)
- Scott Morrison can’t afford to waste the bushfire crisis when Australia urgently needs its own green new deal – Malcolm Turnbull (Jan ’20)
- Explainer: how effective is bushfire hazard reduction on Australia’s fires? (Jan ’20)
- How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate (Jan ’20)
- Greg Mullins, former NSW Fire Commissioner talks tough on bushfire response (Jan ’20)
- Morrison’s government on the bushfires: from attacking climate ‘lunatics’ to calling in the troops (Jan ’20)
- Bushfires left millions of animals dead. We should use them, not just bury them (Dec ’19)
- ‘Doing nothing is not a solution’: Matt Kean blames climate crisis for bushfires (Dec ’19)
- Scott Morrison and the Coalition are fiddling as Australia burns (Dec ’19)
- The Coalition isn’t being honest about the climate crisis. But neither is Labor (Dec ’19)
- Former Australian fire chiefs say Coalition ignored their advice because of climate change politics (Nov ’19)
- What are the links between climate change and bushfires? – explainer (Nov ’19)
- Here’s 194 Ways The Coalition Have Fuelled These Bushfires. They Have Blood On Their Hands (Nov ’19)
- Regional mayors criticise politicians for failing to link climate change and deadly bushfires (Nov ’19)
- We’ve been in bushfire hell in Glen Innes – and the scientists knew it was coming (Nov ’19)
Drought
- Drought
- Last summer’s fish carnage sparked public outrage. Here’s what has happened since (Feb ’20)
- The unequal cost of the drought (Feb ’20)
- Coalition brushed aside CWA’s warnings on how to get drought relief to farmers (Feb ’20)
- Don’t blame the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. It’s climate and economic change driving farmers out (Dec ’19)
- How drought is affecting water supply in Australia’s capital cities (Dec ’19)
- Scott Morrison says drought the Coalition’s ‘first call’ – but makes no mention of climate (Oct ’19)
- Moira Shire misses Government drought money threshold by a fraction (Oct ’19)
- Farmers’ protest is a sign water politics is about to go into hyperdrive (Aug ’19)
- The Darling River is simply not supposed to dry out, even in drought (Jan ’19)
- It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements (May ’18)
- The science behind the Murray-Darling Basin plan (Nov ’11)
Solutions/Ideas/Opportunities
- Solutions
- Albanese says we can’t replace steelmaking coal. But we already have green alternatives (Feb ’20)
- It might sound ‘batshit insane’ but Australia could soon export sunshine to Asia via a 3,800km cable (Feb ’20)
- Mike and Annie Cannon-Brookes pledge $12m to supply solar systems for disaster relief (Feb ’20)
- Chief Scientist: we need to transform our world into a sustainable ‘electric planet’ (Feb ’20)
- 44 inspiring climate solutions from around the world that are tackling the climate crisis with practical action (Feb ’20)
- We need politicians to have the guts to admit it’s going to hurt to fight climate change (Dec ’19)
- Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it (Nov ’19)
- 80% of household water goes to waste – we need to get it back (Oct ’19)
- Divestment works – and one huge bank can lead the way (Oct ’19)
- Coal mines can be closed without destroying livelihoods – here’s how (Oct ’19)
- How hydrogen power can help us cut emissions, boost exports, and even drive further between refills (Aug ’18)
- ‘Just a matter of when’: the $20bn plan to power Singapore with Australian solar (Jul ’19)
- Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill (Dec ’16)
- Powerhouse: the startup making solar the most accessible energy in the world (Apr ’17)
- The woman who loves garbage: Veena Sahajwalla on making the best of waste (Jan’16)
- The burning question – Robert Macfarlane argues that writers can play a crucial role in helping us to imagine the impact of climate change (Sep ’05)
Mining Interests/Big Polluters
- Mining Interests
- Rio Tinto accused of violating human rights in Bougainville for not cleaning up Panguna mine (Apr ’20)
- Matt Canavan billed taxpayers $5,390 for charter flight to attend coalmine opening (Mar ‘20)
- GE is planning to build new dirty coal power plants all over the world. (Mar ’20)
- Equinor has abandoned oil-drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight – so what’s next? (Feb ’20)
- Great Australian Bight: Equinor abandons plans to drill for oil (Feb ’20)
- Smoke screen: how Australia’s biggest polluters have been free to increase emissions (Feb ’20)
- Cheap gas, really? Why gas — from coal seams or ships — may not mean low power prices (Feb ’20)
- New resources minister Keith Pitt rejects calls for higher taxes on gas industry (Feb ’20)
- Morrison delivers big fossil fuel win for major donor Santos (Feb ’20)
- Fifty seven million ways the carbon industrial complex infects Australian politics (Jan ’20)
- Australian miners hit by biggest thermal coal price drop in more than a decade (Dec ’19)
- New coalmines in Queensland don’t help existing communities, they hurt them (Dec ’19)
- NSW moves to stop mine projects being blocked because of their overseas emissions (Oct ’19)
- NSW government may open two new coal fields for exploration to boost economic growth (Oct ’19)
- Australia is third largest exporter of fossil fuels behind Russia and Saudi Arabia (Aug ’19)
- QLD Coal Revenue (State Govt Report)
- Dirty Power: Big Coal’s network of influence over the coalition government – video (May ’19)
- Why do we subsidise industry?
- Adani
- ‘The forest is everything’: indigenous tribes in India battle to save their home from Adani – in pictures (Mar ’20)
- Adani executive Lucas Dow talks up bigger coal mine in leaked video at LNP fundraising event (Mar ’20)
- Morrison government faces legal challenge over Adani pipeline plan (Mar ’20)
- Adani coalmine: minister loses legal challenge on water pipeline assessment (Jun ’19)
- Government concedes error on Adani pipeline decision (Jun ’19)
- ‘Absolute disgrace’: Adani pipeline plan won’t activate water trigger (Sep ’18)
Climate Emergency (Financial Markets)
- Financial Markets
- Australia’s major banks keep on fueling the climate crisis (Mar ’20)
- QBE told to stop fuelling climate crisis (Feb ’20)
- Insurers withdrawing cover from coal projects double in 2019 (Dec ’19)
- Commonwealth Bank – Climate Risk Report (2019)
- Investments in new power generating capacity would bring an economic return for decades
- Analysis: Global coal power set for record fall in 2019 (Nov ’19)
- European Investment Bank to phase out fossil fuel financing (Nov ’19)
- Saudi Aramco valuation falls below $2tn target (Nov’19)
- Why are asset managers investing in fossil fuel companies? (Oct ’19)
Denialism
- Denialism
- Who are the 75 Australian ‘scientists and professionals’ who say there is no climate emergency? (Feb ’20)
- Senator Jim Molan grilled over climate change, bushfire response on Q&A with Hamish Macdonald (Feb ’20)
- Now that climate change is irrefutable, denialists like Andrew Bolt insist it will be good for us (Jan ’20)
- Australia’s Infernal Denial (Jan ’20)
- Climate denialism is bought and paid for by a rotten political system (Nov ’19)
- Australia wasted decades in climate denial – and must break free of the mire of misinformation (Oct ’19)
- The big polluters’ masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me (Oct ’19)
- Climate explained: why some people still think climate change isn’t real (Oct ’19)
- Fact check: How Maurice Newman misrepresents science to claim future global cooling (Aug ’14)
New Zealand
- Organisations/Websites
- Leadership
- Climate change
- Factcheck: is New Zealand hypocritical to reject Australia’s climate accounting? (Jan ’20)
- New Zealand’s carbon emissions bill (Jan ’20)
- Climate explained: how climate change will affect food production and security (Dec ’19)
- New Zealand passes historic zero carbon bill with near unanimous bipartisan support (Nov ’19)
- New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of ‘carbon-neutral future’ (Apr ’18)
- Refugees
- Election
- I was elected then diagnosed with MS. My disease has taught me about representation (Mar ’20)
- Jacinda Ardern’s leadership under question in New Zealand despite being lauded abroad (Feb ’20)
- New Zealand voters must prepare for an ugly culture war this election (Jan ’20)
- Jacinda Ardern – the highs and lows of her term in office so far (Jan ’20)
- This election is do or die for NZ First and the fight could get dirty (Jan ’20)
Maori
- Maori
- Patricia Grace’s literary legacy: giving Māori characters their ‘natural’ voice (Feb ’20)
- Māori have been robbed of our identity and our land – we must fight to get them back (Feb ’20)
- Jacinda Ardern is right, Waitangi Day is imperfect. But the flaws are intentional (Feb ’20)
- We must dismantle our colonial system and rebuild it with Māori at the heart (Feb ’20)
- The haka isn’t yours – stop performing it (Jan ’20)
- Here’s why the UK wants to heal the scars of its colonial past with Māori (Jan ’20)
- On every issue important to Māori this government is failing (Nov ’19)
- Cook’s arrival was a disaster for Māori. Britain’s half-hearted apology isn’t good enough (Oct ’19)
Racism
- Miscellaneous
- Sensationalist media is exacerbating racist coronavirus fears. We need to combat it (Feb ’20)
- Doctors and nurses at Melbourne hospital racially abused over coronavirus panic (Feb ’20)
- I’d never heard of Laurence Fox until he started lecturing us about racism (Jan ’20)
- How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford review – we’re all related (Feb ’20)
Poverty
- Organisations
- Leadership
- Work
- Delivery workers are now essential. They deserve the rights of other employees (Mar ’20)
- Anglicare finds five jobseekers applying for every entry-level position (Oct ’19)
- Jobactive workers speak out: ‘How the hell did I end up doing this to these people?’ (Oct ’19)
- Making an art form out of cruelty to people who are unemployed (Oct ’19)
- How to stop workers being exploited in the gig economy (Oct ’18)
- Disability
Poverty & Disadvantage (Welfare)
- Welfare
- ‘It will change my life entirely’: young people on getting the $550 coronavirus supplement (Apr ’20)
- Government did not plan to inform jobseekers their welfare appointments were suspended (Mar ‘20)
- (related)
- The Australian welfare system has always been needlessly cruel. Now it’s punishing half the country (Mar ‘20)
- Australian jobseekers to get $550 increase as part of huge coronavirus welfare package (Mar ’20)
- Coalition relaxes job-seeking obligations but refuses to suspend them during coronavirus crisis (Mar ’20)
- Welfare recipients on cashless debit card will have $750 stimulus payment quarantined (Mar ’20)
- Sick or disabled people on Newstart face ‘unrealistic’ obligations to find work (Mar ’20))
- ‘Stigma, shame and frustration’: cashless welfare card found to do more harm than good (Feb ’20)
- Cashless welfare card: how does it work and what changes is the government proposing? (Feb ’20)
- Jacqui Lambie says people scared and confused by Coalition’s cashless welfare card plan (Nov ’19)
- ‘Senseless cruelty’: peak welfare body pushes for $95-a-week increase to Newstart (Jan ’20)
- There’s mounting evidence against cashless debit cards, but the government is ploughing on regardless (Nov ’19)
- ‘Please listen to us’: the Newstart recipients trying to convince Scott Morrison he’s wrong (Nov ’19)
- I’m an addict and on the dole, but it’s not drugs that keep me in this nightmare (Oct ’19)
- Lesson for Australia. Make it hard for people to get benefits, and they’ll stop, but they mightn’t get jobs (Oct ’19)
- Newstart recipient has payments suspended after appearing at Senate inquiry (Oct ’19)
- More than 120,000 people whose welfare was suspended were not at fault, data shows (Aug ’19)
- Newstart recipient on Q&A: ‘How would you suggest people like me have a go?’ (Aug ’19)
- ‘Unfunded empathy’: Scott Morrison pushes back on growing calls to lift Newstart rate (Jul ’19)
- Life on the breadline: Centrelink’s ‘mutual obligation’ is a system of humiliation (May ’19)
- Punished by the lucrative welfare-to-work industry: ‘I was contemplating suicide’ (May ’19)
- Coalition stopped welfare payments to 55,000 homeless or at-risk jobseekers in six months (Apr ’19)
- The demerit system is ruthless social policy, designed to keep the poor powerless (Jul ‘18)
- Duncan Storrar went on Q&A – now his personal life is dragged through the mud (May ’16)
- You’re not a ‘bludger’ if you pay no net tax in Australia (May ’16)
Poverty (Inequality)
- Inequality
- Women released from prison are at much greater risk of violence (Mar ’20)
- One in eight people in Australia living in poverty, report finds (Feb ’20)
- As big cities get even bigger, some residents are being left behind (Feb ’20)
- Montessori education could reduce the advantage gap between rich and poor, but it’s only available to the rich (Jan ’20)
- I’m an ex-prisoner and education behind bars saved my life (Jan ’20)
- Is hard work enough to lift anyone out of poverty? This question divides the nation (Nov ’19)
- Tackling the cycle of inequality of girls in the developing world by numbers (Oct ’19)
- Vast majority of disability pension applicants say Centrelink treated them unfairly (Oct ’19)
- One in five Australians went hungry over past year, study finds (Oct ’19)
- Big Issue founder launches magazine to tackle illiteracy (Jun ’19)
- Poverty as a Moral Question (Apr ’19)
- Ideas of home and ownership in Australia might explain the neglect of renters’ rights (Nov ’18)
Homelessness
- Homelessness
- Morrison must protect the most vulnerable Australians to combat the coronavirus crisis (Mar ‘ 20)
- The many faces of social housing – home to 1 in 10 Australians (Mar ’20)
- We’re innovative when housing bushfire victims. Why not all the homeless? (Mar ’20)
- The lost kids (Mar ’20)
- As simple as finding a job? Getting people out of social housing is much more complex than that (Dec ’19)
- Growing numbers of renters are trapped for years in homes they can’t afford (Oct ’19)
- ‘Out in the cold’: Council shuts down scheme to help homeless sleep in churches (Aug ’19)
- ‘I didn’t want to be homeless with a baby’: young women share their stories of homelessness (Jul ’19)
- Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001 (May ’19)
- ‘National obscenity’: Australia’s story of housing boom and homelessness (May ’19)
- Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter (Feb ’19)
- What do single, older women want? Their ‘own little space’ (and garden) to call home, for a start (Oct ’17)
- What housing issues should the budget tackle? This is what our experts say (Apr ’17)
- Homeless in Britain: ‘I graduated with honours – and ended up on the streets’ (Jan ’17)
Robodebt
- Robodebt
- Robodebt: government admits it will be forced to refund $550m under botched scheme (Mar ‘20)
- Centrelink continues to chase welfare clients for robodebts despite coronavirus (Mar ’20)
- Officials refuse to say how many flawed robodebts they have found (Mar ’20)
- Centrelink accidentally sends pensioner’s personal information to wrong man (Mar’20)
- ‘I’ve spent many nights crying’: welfare recipients on the true cost of robodebt (Feb ’20)
- On robodebt, the Morrison government is defending the indefensible (Feb ’20)
- Coalition says it has no duty of care for welfare recipients over robodebt (Feb ’20)
- Centrelink sent Tracey a $45,500 parenting allowance bill, but she doesn’t have any children (Feb ’20)
- Government was warned robodebt scheme was unlawful – but won’t say when (Feb ’20)
- Robodebt legal warning came on same day scheme was suspended by Federal Government (Feb ’20)
- Disability pensioners were increasingly drawn into robodebt while scheme was under scrutiny (Feb ’20)
- The robodebt horror was all about boosting the budget. That’s the brutal truth (Nov ’19)
- Centrelink accused of issuing $14,500 robodebt to pensioner with intellectual impairment (Oct ’19)
- If the PM thought money for farmers was ‘welfare’, they’d be getting robo-debt notices (Oct ’19)
- ‘The system is truly Orwellian’: our horrifying experiences with robodebt (Oct ’19)
- ‘It’s so draining’: single mother pursued over debt caused by Centrelink mistake (Sep ’19)
- Homeless woman says Centrelink took entire $3,500 tax return for disputed robodebt (Aug ’19)
Disability
- Organisations/Websites
- Support
- Definitions
- Work
- Companies might be hiring workers with a disability to ‘tick a box’ before moving them on (Mar ’20)
- Activ Esperance closure leaves 17 people with a disability out of work and families left ‘dumbfounded’ (Mar ’20)
- Autism to ADHD: thinking differently about recruitment (Feb ’20)
- How neurodiversity is driving innovation from unexpected places (May ’19)
- Autistic Australians are being locked out of the workforce (Mar ’19)
- Discrimination
- People with cognitive disability shouldn’t be in prison because they’re ‘unfit to plead’. There are alternatives (Feb ’20)
- CapTel text-captioned telephones will not work as of February in blow for Australia’s deaf community (Jan ’20)
- Federal funding cut a threat to hearing impaired phone transcriptions, providers say (Apr ’19)
- Abuse
NDIS
- NDIS
- ‘These children are in limbo’: the New Zealanders locked out of Australia’s NDIS (Feb ’20)
- Yes, the system needs to be better. But here’s how to ensure your child can access the NDIS if they need it (Feb ’20)
- Ministers accuse federal government of prioritising budget surplus over NDIS (Feb ’20)
- Children’s access to disability funding depending on where they live dubbed ‘developmental apartheid’ (Feb ’20)
- NDIS watchdog is fielding nearly 100 allegations of abuse or neglect a week (Jan ’20)
- NDIS minister claims no one has died waiting for the scheme, despite agency revealing 1,279 deaths (Jan ’20)
- National disability insurance scheme confusing and causing some to miss out on support, review finds (Jan ’20)
- The NDIS is changing. Here’s what you need to know – and what problems remain (Nov ’19)
- The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery (Nov ’19)
- Understanding the NDIS: many eligible people with disabilities are likely to miss out (Jul ’16)
Disability Royal Commission
- Royal Commission
- Being Aboriginal with a disability a ‘double whammy’, royal commission told (Feb ’20)
- ‘Mum, I want to go home’: parents say health system is failing disabled children (Feb ’20)
- Australian law allows disabled people to be ‘chemically castrated’, inquiry hears (Dec ’19)
- Many in fear in disability group homes (Dec ’19)
- Disability royal commission: girl with Asperger’s hid in garbage bin to avoid bullying (Nov ’19)
- Disability inquiry begins with harrowing stories, but advocates fear it isn’t equipped to succeed (Nov ’19)
- Why schools desperately need a royal commission into the abuse of disabled people (Feb ’19)
Religion
- Sexuality
- Gay, Christian and a former preacher, I’m coming out to help anyone hurt by Israel Folau (Dec ’19)
- God made the rainbow: why the Bible welcomes every colour in the gender spectrum (Dec ’19)
- On gender and sexuality, Scott Morrison’s ‘blind spot’ may come from reading the Bible too literally (Dec ’19)
- I’m gay, married, and not leaving my church (Oct ’19)
- ‘Boy Erased’ – why conversion therapies and ex-gay ministries should be outlawed (Nov ’18)
- Re-thinking the Bible and Homosexuality (Jun ’17)
- Pentecostal church leaves network over LGBT issues (Sep ’16)
- Abuse
- This is a mighty triumph for George Pell. Now prepare for a storm of rage from the cardinal’s supporters (Apr ’20)
- You’ll need a strong stomach to digest Revelation’s insights into child sexual abuse in the Catholic church (Mar ’20)
- Court orders record payment against Christian Brothers for historic child sex abuse crimes (Mar ’20)
- #ChurchToo: Christian victims of abuse join social media outpouring (Feb ’20)
- Sexual abuse survivor rebukes Hillsong head (Dec ’19)
- Hillsong founder Brian Houston refused to answer questions over father’s child abuse, police told MPs (Aug ’19)
- Raped, tracked, humiliated: Clergy wives speak out about domestic violence (Nov ’17)
- Ideology
- Religious Discrimination Bill
- Government’s religious discrimination bill enshrines the right to harm others in the name of faith (Feb ’20)
- We need to talk about discrimination law and why a thoughtful approach to reform is so important (Feb ’20)
- We’re being sold a convenient lie in the religious discrimination debate (Jan ’20)
- Religious discrimination bill: what will Australians be allowed to say and do if it passes? (Dec ’19)
- Religious Discrimination Bill is a mess that risks privileging people of faith above all others (Apr ’19)
Healthcare
- Exercise
- Immunotherapy
- Support
- Prevention
- Blood Test Detects More Than 50 Cancer Types, Often Before Symptoms Present (Mar ‘20)
- Landmark NSW inquiry condemns ineffective drug laws and calls for decriminalisation (Feb ’20)
- Letting Australians get drugs from a doctor rather than a dealer will save lives (Feb ’20)
- If you’re ageing and on medication, it might be time to re-assess your alcohol intake (Feb ’20)
- Signs of cancer can appear long before diagnosis, study shows (Feb ’20)
- Nearly 50 per cent of Australians now have a chronic disease — many of them preventable (Jul ’19)
- Brain Health
- Finding a cure for Fido’s brain cancer may help us find a cure for ourselves (Feb ’20)
- Brain temperature is difficult to measure. Here’s how a new infrared technique can help (Feb’20)
- How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn’t in brain size, but blood flow (Jan ’20)
- Brain training shown to restore sharpness in older adults (Sep ’19)
- Alcohol and the teenage brain (Sep ’10)
- Health Care Spending
- Miscellaneous
- Employment Outlook: Health Care and Social Assistance
- As coronavirus spreads, I am terrified that Australia’s fear and greed could cost my son his life (Mar ’20)
- RACP says withholding treatment for transgender youth ‘unethical’ and calls for national care plan (Mar ’20)
- What is a rare disease? It’s not as simple as it sounds (Feb ’20)
- The spread of super-specialisation is an alarming problem of modern medicine (Feb ’20)
- Medical cannabis: Why are doctors still not prescribing it? (Nov ’19) — (UK)
- Making space: how designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyone (Dec ’19)
- Consulting with Dr. Google (Oct ’19)
- If doctors have a duty of care to all, why crowdfund for surgery? (Jun ’19)
- Why aren’t we curing the world’s curable diseases (Oct ’17)
- GP Stories
Australian Politics
- Conversation
- Coronavirus gives us a terrifying glimpse of the future – and highlights a chilling paradox (Mar ’20)
- ‘Neglected’ democracy vulnerable to authoritarian rule in era of disinformation, Labor’s Tim Watts says (Feb ’20)
- The smirking arrogance of the LNP (Feb ’20)
- When scandal means nothing, how can the media hold our leaders to account? (Feb ’20)
- Australia needs to challenge authority if we’re going to confront water, fire and climate crises (Dec ’19)
- No, you’re not entitled to your opinion (Oct ’12)
- Limits to Growth (Club of Rome)
Totalitarianism
- Totalitarianism
- Peter Dutton pushes for overseas police to tap Australians’ phones (Mar ’20)
- Tasmanian anti-logging protesters banned from forests over ‘unsafe behaviour’ (Feb ’20)
- Aurora Australis officer asked to remove post criticising Scott Morrison’s climate policy (Feb ’20)
- AFP warrants used to raid ABC valid, Federal Court rules (Feb ’20)
- Coalition may use government contracts to crack down on environment protests (Feb ’20)
- Eureka flag ban shows government’s distaste for democracy (Feb ’20)
- Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology (Jan ’20)
- Cult that defines Trump’s power is just a few scratches away from the surface in Australia (Dec ’19)
- Scott Morrison threatens crackdown on protesters who would ‘deny liberty’ (Nov ’19)
- Scott Morrison wants to outlaw boycott campaigns. But the mining industry doesn’t need protection (Nov ’19)
- Australia’s prime minister pledges to outlaw climate boycotts, arguing they threaten the economy (Nov ’19)
- I live-tweeted the AFP’s every move as they raided the ABC’s Sydney headquarters (Jun ’19)
Australian Prime Minister
- Prime Minister
- Thanks to coronavirus, Scott Morrison will become a significant prime minister (Apr ‘20)
- Stay positive, Scott Morrison: when you berate people for bad behaviour, they do it more (Mar ’20)
- Postponing democracy The PM’s instincts are autocratic (Mar ’20)
- The PM risks over-egging the response to coronavirus (Mar ’20)
- Morrison tells big business to show ‘patriotism’ as COVID-19 threatens to hit harder than GFC (Mar ’20)
- The Government is facing an existential threat, but unlike coronavirus, it’s completely in its control – Laura Tingle (Feb ’20)
- Morrison’s strategy of confusion (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison knows where his political weaknesses lie — but he won’t give any ground – David Speers (Jan ’20)
- Scott Morrison is facing bushfires, a grants saga and a perfect storm of political hopelessness – Laura Tingle (Jan ’20)
- I lived through Aids denialism in South Africa. Scott Morrison’s slippery climate stance is doomed (Dec ’19)
- The prime minister’s office accidentally sent out its talking points. We fact checked them (Oct ’19)
- Scott Morrison, the flim-flam man who rode the Peter Principle all the way to the Lodge (Oct ’19)
Australian Labor Party (Federal Opposition)
- Labor
- It’s not too early to start thinking about Australia after the crisis (Apr ’20)
- Morrison a ‘predatory’ centrist on climate policy with no plans for meaningful emissions reduction, says Swan (Mar ’20)
- Labor’s Richard Marles won’t rule out supporting new coal developments (Feb ’20)
- Australia’s democracy has faceplanted and Labor is staring down some disturbing truths (Dec ’19)
- If you think Labor’s ‘too progressive’, you couldn’t be more wrong (Nov ’19)
Australian Political Leadership
- Leadership
- In times of crisis, we turn to the arts. Now the arts is in crisis – and Scott Morrison is silent (Mar ‘20)
- Australia is scared and confused about coronavirus. Is Scott Morrison the leader we need for this grave moment? (Mar ’20)
- It’s not working: Scott Morrison’s late-night coronavirus messages only sow confusion (Mar ’20)
- ‘Clarity and compassion’: what Australia can learn from New Zealand’s coronavirus response (Mar ‘20)
- Coronavirus is raising questions of how well-equipped our political leaders are to handle a national emergency – Laura Tingle (Mar ’20)
- The government’s coronavirus crisis approach is ‘go late, go half-measures, and go to Hillsong’ (Mar ’20)
- Faced with coronavirus and a trust deficit, can Scott Morrison swallow his pride? (Mar ’20)
- Scott Morrison refuses to take questions about timing of changes to sports grants (Mar ’20)
- Morrison dodges responsibility as coronavirus hits a weak economy (Feb ’20)
- Budget ‘surplus’ and coronavirus: Morrison is caught between a slogan and a hard place (Feb ’20)
- Contrition and environmental catastrophe: Rediscovering a lost political emotion (Jan ’20)
- Scott Morrison, here’s what you should do in 2020 to show leadership (Jan ’20)
- A national disaster – on the PM’s catastrophically inept response to Australia’s unprecedented bushfires (Jan ’20)
- Some political leaders find their natural authority in a crisis – not Scott Morrison (Jan ’20)
- Scott Morrison’s biggest failure in the bushfire crisis: an inability to deliver collective action (Jan ’20)
- Are the bushfires Scott Morrison’s Hurricane Katrina moment that he can’t live down? (Jan ’20)
- A world beyond the inferno: Why we need a smart political energy grid to avert ecological catastrophe (Dec ’19)
- Can Morrison’s ‘she’ll be right’ strategy on climate work forever? (Dec ’19)
- Now is the time to read the smoke signals of 2019. Their message of doom is clear (Dec ’19)
- Anthony Albanese says COAG needs to be brought forward to support firefighters and volunteers (Dec ’19)
- I marched against John Howard but he showed leadership in a way Scott Morrison is refusing to (Dec ’19)
- Scott Morrison has his boot on Labor’s throat – while pretending they’re in government (Oct’19)
- Deputy PM apologises for telling Pacific it will survive climate change as workers ‘pick our fruit’ (Aug ’19)
- Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they ‘pick our fruit’, Australia’s deputy PM says (Aug ’19)
- Malcolm Fraser’s political manifesto would make good reading for the Morrison government (Apr ’18)
Economy
- Economy
- Morrison has changed tack against his tribal instincts. But what happens after coronavirus? (Apr ’20)
- Don’t be fooled by Morrison’s benevolence – soon it’s back to tax cuts and smaller government (Apr ’20)
- Vital Signs: Scott Morrison is steering in the right direction, but we’re going to need a bigger boat (Apr ‘20)
- Morrison reminds us nothing lasts forever – especially the coronavirus spending spree (Apr ’20)
- Scott Morrison needs to target his spending at significant problems or he will only be remembered for debt (Apr ‘20)
- From tight purse strings to massive fiscal firepower: the Coalition’s staggering transformation (Mar ‘20)
- Is factory farming (partly) to blame for Coronavirus (Mar ’20)
- Coronavirus crisis shows capitalism at its worse (Mar ’20)
- The unemployment rate doesn’t go back to normal after a recession – there are long-term effects (Mar ‘20)
- Under coronavirus, pro-market ideologies are overturned around the world. But it’s too little, too late (Mar ‘20)
- A hundred years on, will there be another Great Depression? (Mar ‘ 20)
- The coronavirus crisis may lead to a new way of economic thinking (Mar ’20)
- Remember Josh Frydenberg scoffing at a ‘wellbeing budget’? He’s not laughing any more (Mar ’20)
- With the coronavirus, here’s what’s really going to matter for the Australian economy (Mar ’20)
- Christian Porter doesn’t understand insecure work can be scarier than coronavirus (Mar ’20)
- Four experts on how coronavirus will wallop Australia’s economy – and what the government must do (Mar ’20)
- This is more than a health crisis: here’s a 10-point plan for avoiding recession (Mar ’20)
- With borrowing effectively free, why be scared of government debt? (Mar ’20)
- Coronavirus is not the villain: Australia’s economy was already on a precipice (Mar ’20)
- Coronavirus is the Coalition’s GFC – but will Morrison respond as Rudd did? (Mar ’20)
- Older, wiser but underemployed: no longer can it be treated with indifference (Feb ’20)
- Australia to overtake Qatar on LNG field by 2020 – EnergyQuest (Feb ’20)
- If Australia’s resources were taxed the way Norway’s are, we could secure the future of our schools (Feb ’20)
- … (Related)
- Is the economy stirring? Sorry, no. Things could get even worse (Feb ’20)
- Former productivity commissioner attacks Coalition’s economic plan (Jan ’20)
- Fleecing Australia: Tax Office data dump shows the usual large culprits paying no tax (Dec ’19)
- Secrets and Lies: how franking credits stole the tax bonanza (Dec ’19)
- Ten companies pay 45% of all corporate tax in Australia (Dec ’18)
- Government’s empty agenda has been hidden in plain sight, but Reserve Bank has made it clear it’s time to act (Jul ’19)
- Fact Check: Will $77 billion worth of Coalition tax cuts go to people earning more than $180,000? (Jun ’19)
- ‘Staggering’: $90 billion lost in Resources Tax (Mar ’18)
- Beware tax cuts for ‘Middle Australia’. Above-average earners benefit most (May ’16)
- Economic Growth: An Unnecessary Evil (Nov ’12)
Climate Change (in Australian Politics)
- Climate Emergency
- A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10 (Apr ’20)
- The end of coal-fired power can be managed or messy (Feb ’20)
- Australia’s electricity market must be 100% renewables by 2035 to achieve net zero by 2050 – study … (Feb ’20)
- Net zero emissions possible in Australia if low emissions options accelerated (Feb ’20)
- Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it (Feb ’20)
- … (Related)
- Conservative but green independent MP Zali Steggall could break the government’s climate policy deadlock (Feb ’20)
- Labor’s climate policy is too little, too late. We must run faster to win the race (Feb ’20)
- Coalition ministers at odds over emissions target after Labor commits to net zero by 2050 (Feb ’20)
- The government’s sudden passion for climate technology is newfound and insincere (Feb ’20)
- Bushfires highlight need for urgent climate action and ‘a real target’, Anthony Albanese says (Feb ’20)
- Public support for new coalmines falls even among Coalition voters, ANU poll finds (Feb ’20)
- Australian government granted BHP repeated approval to increase carbon emissions (Feb ’20)
- A 60% rise in industrial emissions points to failure of Coalition’s ‘safeguard mechanism’ (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison leaves open indemnification of new coal-fired power station (Feb ’20)
- Morrison government to spend up to $4m in grant for feasibility study into coal-fired power plant in Queensland (Feb ’20)
- Big polluters again allowed to lift emissions without penalty (Feb ’20)
- I enjoy taking climate deniers to task but here’s the question Q&A should have answered (Feb ’20)
- Witnesses fight back tears at NSW inquiry into ‘anti-climate’ scope 3 emissions law (Feb ’20)
- Pardon me for getting “religious” about climate change (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison talks big about pressure on gas prices but says nothing about flooding markets with coal (Feb ’20)
- Falling ash, skies of blood – and now Australia’s anger smoulders (Jan ’20)
- Australia already ‘carrying its load’ on emissions and must adapt to warmer climate, PM says (Jan ’20)
- Company approved to take 96 million litres of water from drought-ravaged Queensland town (Jan ’20)
- Scott Morrison says NSW minister Matt Kean ‘doesn’t know what he’s talking about’ on climate (Jan ’20)
- There’s nothing safe about a country in flames, and the Coalition will exploit that (Jan ’20)
- Australia’s pathetic PM reveals much about the right’s effort to deny reality (Jan ’20)
- The people in power will let your country burn (Jan ’20)
- The government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach (Jan ’20)
- This apocalyptic Australian summer is our Sandy Hook moment – if we don’t take climate action now we never will (Jan ’20)
- I’ve always voted Liberal, but after sheltering my family on a beach I cannot support this government (Jan ’20)
- Beware terrorists but don’t sweat the climate crisis – how blind can Morrison be? (Dec ’19)
- What Albanese could have said: we lied – Australian coalmines have no future – Richard Flanagan (Dec ’19)
- Scott Morrison rejects calls for more bushfire help, saying volunteer firefighters ‘want to be there’ (Dec ’19)
- Chinese company approved to run water mining operation in drought-stricken Queensland (Dec ’19)
- Building more dams won’t make it rain. Nor will bringing in millions (Oct ’19)
- We all smell the smoke, we all feel the heat. This environmental catastrophe is global – Alexis Wright (May ’19)
- UN official ‘talking through her hat’ on bushfires and climate change, says Tony Abbott (Oct ’13)
Government Rorts
- Government Rorts
- Sport Australia warned Bridget McKenzie over sports grants decisions, emails reveal (Mar ’20)
- Sports rorts: football body in marginal seat awarded $500k on top of $800k from state (Mar ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie warned by legal expert ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse’ (Mar ’20)
- Covid-19 is pushing sports rorts from the news. But at least one potential crime must be investigated – Tony Harris (Mar ’20)
- Sports rorts: Scott Morrison sidesteps question about late changes to spreadsheet (Mar ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie could be personally liable over sports grants, expert tells Senate hearing (Mar ’20)
- Sport Australia defies Senate on questions over sports rorts grants (Mar ’20)
- Sports rorts changes everything. It’s time for a federal Icac (Mar ’20)
- Nigel Scullion approved $560m in grants in lead-up to election (Mar ’20)
- This Rorting Life … the Prime Minister is up to his neck in it (Mar ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie reignites sports rorts affair by denying late changes to grants (Mar ’20)
- NSW Nationals deputy Bronwyn Taylor notified instantly of $8m grant to husband’s organisation (Mar ’20)
- Sports rorts: agency admits failing to tell Senate about second McKenzie email (Mar ’20)
- Scott Morrison has been caught out over sports rorts (Mar ’20)
- Senior public servant tells inquiry she destroyed sports grants meeting notes (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison maintains sports grants were decided before final emails to his office (Feb ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie gave Sport Australia final list of grant projects in caretaker period (Feb ’20)
- The PM is squarely in the frame over the sports rorts affair (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison and Bridget McKenzie’s offices exchanged 136 emails about sports grants program (Feb ’20)
- The sports rorts remind us politics is a ‘game of mates’. We need an independent umpire (Feb ’20)
- The sports grants saga isn’t going away, and it means Scott Morrison will need to change tack – David Speers (Feb ’20)
- ‘Unprecedented’ $400k grant given to aged-care home operator in Nationals electorate (Feb ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie gave ‘spare’ $150,000 to shooting study rather than major games for intellectually impaired (Feb ’20)
- Audit Office says Scott Morrison and Bridget McKenzie’s offices shared partisan colour-coded spreadsheets (Feb ’20)
- Coalition dished out $636m in grants in six months before 2019 election (Feb ’20)
- Coalition pledged $4.5m for tidal pool despite opposition from local council (Feb ’20)
- Liberal MP linked $500,000 sports grant to ‘great strategising’ that led to victory (Feb ’20)
- If we move on from the sports grants now as the Coalition wants, we tolerate corruption – Tony Harris (Feb ’20)
- View from The Hill: We need to see Gaetjens’ report on McKenzie – not least for Gaetjens’ sake (Feb ’20)
- Coalition quietly spent another $150m sports grant fund during election campaign (Feb ’20)
- Hard evidence that Scott Morrison’s office was up to its collective neck in the rorting (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison wants the sports rorts mess to be over with McKenzie’s exit. It won’t be (Feb ’20)
- Ministers like Bridget McKenzie have no discretion to break the rules – Prof. Anne Twomey (Feb ’20)
- Don’t hold your breath waiting for the truth on Bridget McKenzie’s sports rort – Anne Davies (Feb ’20)
- Morrison’s twisted logic on the sports rort is perfectly Trumpian – and no surprise (Feb ’20)
- Sports rorts: almost half the projects funded were ineligible, audit office says (Feb ’20)
- The sports rorts saga has become a political vulnerability that can’t be explained away (Feb ’20)
- Government’s sport grants leaked spreadsheet reveals more secrets about the scheme (Feb ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie’s sport grant cash splash is a particularly brazen example of pork-barrelling – David Speers (Jan ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie’s sports grants program may be unconstitutional, expert warns – Prof. Anne Twomey (Jan ’20)
- The ‘sports rorts’ affair shows the government misunderstands the role of the public service (Jan ’20)
- Sports rorts: attorney general defends ministers’ powers while awaiting McKenzie review (Jan ’20)
- Sports grants: Coalition rejected 12 grant applications for female change rooms at local sport grounds (Jan ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie granted $500,000 to Coalition colleague’s Northern Territory gun club (Jan ’20)
- Shameless – Scott Morrison defends the indefensible (Jan ’20)
- Sport Australia complained about political interference in the Government’s sports grants program (Jan ’20)
- Sport Australia warned Bridget McKenzie’s grants program compromised its independence (Jan ’20)
- Whistleblower in Bridget McKenzie’s office reveals grant fears were silenced Jan ’20)
- The PM’s upset election win looks very different now (Jan ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie’s office told ‘not appropriate’ to approve sports grants after applications closed (Jan ’20)
- We missed out on a sports grant for our club – now we know how unethical the process has been (Jan ’20)
- Grattan on Friday: Bridget McKenzie has made herself a sitting duck (Jan ’20)
- Mosman Rowing Club donates paddle to assist Bridget McKenzie escape shit creek (Jan ’20) – The Chaser
- Federal ICAC would investigate sports grants affair, former NSW auditor-general says (Jan ’20)
- ‘Sports rorts’ grants explained: how we got here and why it all matters (Jan ’20)
- Sports grants: rugby club gets funding for female change rooms but has no women’s team (Jan ’20)
- Audit office blasts roll-out of Coalition’s $200m regional jobs and investment program (Nov ’19)
- Deputy Nationals leader rejected more than 600 grants recommended by Sport Australia (Oct ’19)
- Election cash splash coming from government grants (May ’19)
- Will heads roll? Ministerial standards and Stuart Robert (Feb ’16)
Government Corruption/Cover Ups
- Government Corruption
- Government increases spend on Covid-19 data analytics as it declines to release modelling (Mar ‘20)
- Matt Canavan billed taxpayers $5,390 for charter flight to attend coalmine opening (Mar ‘20)
- Mining giant given millions in grant by Coalition from fund for Indigenous disadvantage (Mar ’20)
- Prime minister’s department broke the law delaying FOI request, watchdog finds (Feb ’20)
- Government to spend millions buying water from company it already paid $80m (Feb ’20)
- The ties that bind: just how much does the deputy PM know about a $2.4m grant? (Feb ’20)
- It’s time we clipped the ministerial wing of its protected species – the advisers (Feb ’20)
- More than $100m donated to political parties from hidden sources in election year (Feb ’20)
- Matt Canavan leaves two properties worth more than $1m off 2019 declaration of interests (Feb ’20)
- Canavan delayed releasing documents about coal lobby interactions before resigning (Feb ’20)
- A government report has been locked away — but it wasn’t the only thing kept from voters this week (Feb ’20)
- Paladin flares again as former director breaks silence (Feb ’20)
- AFP’s failure to investigate Angus Taylor has corrosive consequences for our democracy (Feb ’20)
- Liberal party claims declaration of a $165k donation by Morrison ally was a mistake (Feb ’20)
- Government rejected several offers on water rights before reaching $80m deal (Jan ’20)
- Why we need strong ethical standards for ministers – and better ways of enforcing them (Jan ’20)
- George Christensen pays back $2,100 after audit finds he misused travel expenses (Jan ’20)
- Cotton, water and Angus Taylor: how the minister’s firm struggled to make farms pay (Dec ’19)
- PM’s office refuses to release drought reports Barnaby Joyce says he sent via text (Dec ’19)
- Government blocks access to emails about Angus Taylor’s attack on Clover Moore (Nov ’19)
- Barnaby Joyce spent $675,000 in expenses but less than three weeks on ground while drought envoy (Sep ’19)
- Warren Mundine approved for Sky News government grant before applying (Jun ’19)
- Angus Taylor met with environment department even as it investigated company he part-owns (Jun ’19)
- Angus Taylor’s Oxford rowing mate’s company was a beneficiary of $80m water deal (May ’19)
- Federal election 2019: Fraudulent how-to-vote cards told Greens voters to preference Peter Dutton (May ’19)
- Australia’s offshore contracts: how millions were spent for dubious outcomes (Feb’19)
- Peter Dutton’s au pair decisions ‘anything but routine’, Labor says (Sep ’18)
- Suspicious minds are circling Helloworld boss (Feb ’19)
- Stuart Robert repays nearly $38,000 for home internet bills (Oct ’18)
- News Corp yet to reveal spend details over Foxtel’s $30 million government handout (Feb ’18)
- PM’s office says Vikki Campion jobs did not breach rules because she was not Barnaby Joyce’s ‘partner’ (Feb ’18)
- Cover Ups/Incompetence
- NSW police chief denies advising PM on whether Angus Taylor should step down over doctored document (Mar ’20)
- Scott Morrison wants the nation to trust him – but how can we after sports rorts? (Mar ’20)
- Scott Morrison confirms he sought White House invite for Hillsong pastor Brian Houston (Mar ’20)
- Scott Morrison’s one-man cabinet committee an ‘abuse of process’, Labor says (Mar ’20)
- Clover Moore demands PM explain Angus Taylor’s use of false document to attack her (Feb ’20)
- AFP did not interview Angus Taylor over false document before dropping investigation (Feb ’20)
- Coalition ministers ‘kept no records’ of meeting overturning advice and awarding $5m to party donor (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison refuses to release notes of call with NSW police chief over doctored document (Nov ’19)
Ideology
- Ideology
- How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, realism or dangerous contrarianism (Apr ’20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: No change in Australia’s stance on out of work Kiwis (Mar ’20)
- Labor says Australia must take rightwing extremist threat ‘seriously’ and review terror list (Mar ’20)
- Domestic violence: women’s safety advocates say Coalition is ignoring experts (Mar ’20)
- Australia’s jack-booted deportation policy
- Not much love actually: Jacinda Ardern was right to call out Australia’s ‘corrosive’ policies (Feb ’20)
- Peter Dutton’s response to a far-right threat shows how little has changed since Christchurch (Feb ’20)
- Dutton says ‘leftwing lunatics’ must be dealt with as Asio warns of far-right threat (Feb ’20)
- The Coalition wants to turn scientists into lapdogs – and muzzle climate research in the process (Feb ’20)
- Blinded by the right – The Morrison government is failing to crack down on far-right extremism (Feb ’20)
- The religious freedom bill has nothing to do with religion – it excludes and it traumatises (Feb ’20)
- Coalition seeks to sidestep high court ruling that Aboriginal non-citizens can’t be deported (Feb ’20)
- High court rules Aboriginal Australians are not ‘aliens’ under the constitution and cannot be deported (Feb ’20)
- Barnaby Joyce is right that the Nationals should speak up. But not to serve his ambition (Feb ’20)
- Religious discrimination bill will harm patients and discriminate against doctors, AMA warns (Jan ’20)
- An end to Morrison’s mean-spiritedness is the Christmas gift Australia needs (Dec ’19)
- What happened? The policies Scott Morrison’s government appears to have abandoned (Dec ’19)
- Vital Signs: Australia’s nation-building opportunity held hostage by the deficit daleks (Dec ’19)
- Threat from extreme rightwing terrorism in Australia has increased, Asio says (Oct’19)
- Porter’s new job needs more than locking up offenders and throwing away the key (Jan ’18)
- Michael McCormack’s homophobic slurs re-emerge amid postal plebiscite controversy (Aug ’17)
Propaganda
- Propaganda
- As the press gallery ate up Shearer Scotty, down the road taxpayers were being fleeced (Feb ’20)
- Scott Morrison’s political ad is a bizarre act of self-love as firefighters battle to save Australia (Jan ’20)
- …(related)
- Morrison government paid empathy consultant $190,000 (Oct ’19)
- ‘Shorten wants to end the weekend’: Morrison attacks Labor’s electric vehicle policy (Apr ’19)
Nation Building
- Nation Building
- Karl Kruszelnicki’s 2020s vision: we need a new wave of idealistic politicians (Mar ’20)
- Sisonke Msimang’s 2020s vision: for social justice to prevail, we need anger fuelled by love (Mar ’20)
- Eva Cox’s 2020s vision: Now markets have failed, let’s talk about social wellbeing (Feb ’20)
- Ian Chubb’s 2020s vision: we need people from all walks of life in politics (Feb ’20)
- Thomas Keneally’s 2020s vision: We must abandon the language of the market to reclaim our humanity (Feb ’20)
- Ben Quilty’s 2020s vision: Commemorate massacres for sanity, goodness and healing (Feb ’20)
- Fiona Simson’s 2020s vision: let’s double the population outside capital cities (Feb ’20)
- David Pocock’s 2020s vision: Heal the land, secure our future (Jan ’20)
- June Oscar’s 2020s vision: Reaching our potential as a nation begins with truth-telling (Jan ’20)
- The bushfires make fiscal stimulus an even more urgent task for the Morrison government (Jan ’20)
- No Australian city has a long-term vision for living sustainably. We can’t go on like this (Nov ’19)
- Too good to be true? Australia’s high-speed rail dream leaves a bitter taste and a cautionary tale (Aug ’19)
US Politics
- Organisations
- Gun Violence
- Poverty
- Christian Fundamentalism
- There’s nothing pro-life about exploiting a pandemic to further a political agenda (Apr ’20)
- The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19’s danger (Apr ’20)
- Trump knows all he needs for evangelical votes is to crack down on women’s rights (Jan’20)
- ‘Satanic wombs’: the outlandish world of Trump’s spiritual adviser (Jan ’20)
- Far Right
- Foreign Policy
- Terrorism
- Environment
- Democracy
- Texas upholds sentence for woman who didn’t know she was ineligible to vote (Mar ’20)
- Roger Stone: prosecutors quit after DoJ signals plan to reduce sentence (Feb ’20)
- Taunts, groans and walkouts: Trump stokes division with cascade of lies (Feb ’20)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s plea for the billionaire class is deeply anti-democratic (Oct ’19)
- White House Fires Impeachment Witnesses Lt. Col. Vindman, Gordan Sondland (Feb ’20)
- ‘Freedom unifies the soul’: Trump’s State of the Union speechwriters have thrown in the towel (Feb ’20)
- Ilhan Omar: ‘I always stand up to bullies’ (Feb ’20)
- Trump’s is the third impeachment in US history and no case has been stronger (Jan ’20)
- Trickle down baloney… Trump is the natural consequence of our anti-democracy decade (Dec ’19)
- Corruption
- US senators accused of coronavirus insider trading are a symbol of moral bankruptcy (Mar ‘ 20)
- Mueller report: justice department ordered to turn over unredacted copy (Mar ’20)
- Navy Seal pardoned of war crimes by Trump described by colleagues as ‘freaking evil’ (Dec ’19)
- At every opportunity, Trump recklessly degrades American justice (Jan ’20)
- Trump administration to roll back school lunch rules and allow more pizza (Jan ’20)
- Economy
- Why are Americans warming to socialism? Because capitalism has failed them (Mar ’20)
- What’s worse than the US-China trade war? A grand peace bargain (Feb ’19)
- ‘Slow-minded and bewildered’: Donald Trump builds barriers to peace and prosperity (Jan ’20)
- Fact-checking President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address (Feb ’20)
- Election
- Where do the 2020 Democratic candidates stand on the key issues? (Mar ’20)
- Elizabeth Warren endured sexism at every step of her campaign (Mar ’20)
- Bernie Sanders is cruising towards the Democratic nomination. But can he win? (Feb ’20)
- Joe Biden Is Not a Blue-Collar Candidate (Feb ’20)
- Bernie Sanders’ real obstacle is not Trump. It’s the Democratic establishment (Feb ’20)
- The US presidential primaries are arcane, complex and unrepresentative. So why do Americans still vote this way? (Jan ’20)
- Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was? (Mar ’19)
- Immigration
- Race
- Trump
- Health Care
- The coronavirus is the worst intelligence failure in US history (Mar ’20)
- The economy v our lives? It’s a false choice – and a deeply stupid one (Mar ‘20)
- President Trump closed the White House pandemic office – I ran it. (Mar ’20)
- Trump’s staff cuts have undermined Covid-19 containment efforts, watchdog finds (Mar ’20)
- America’s extreme neoliberal healthcare system is putting the country at risk (Mar ‘ 20)
- Trump’s attempt to buy a coronavirus vaccine shows why big pharma needs to change (Mar ’20)
- America has no real public health system – coronavirus has a clear run (Mar ’20)
- Medicare For All: If Not Now, When?(Mar ’20)
- Moral Decay