September 23, 2011 – 10:37 am
Andrew Campbell, director of the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) at Charles Darwin University, writes: Here we go again. The Coalition proposal to dam rivers in northern Australia to create a massive food bowl has been floated before, as have various schemes for harvesting water from what is perceived to be the over-watered [...]
September 19, 2011 – 3:49 pm
Graham Readfearn writes: It was one of those “drop your bacon sandwich at the audacity” kind of stories — the sort of revelation that shows what power and influence in a democracy really means. Australia’s wealthiest individual, Hancock Prospecting chairman Gina Rinehart, loaded up a couple of federal MPs onto her private jet and flew them [...]
Kathy Yannarakis, Victorian beef farmer and blogger at Farm Hub, writes: I’d like to make clear from the outset that my family’s beef farm is in Victoria, and so the current controversy around the live export trade to Indonesia, sparked by the recent Four Corners report, does not have a direct nor immediate impact on our farm [...]
February 7, 2011 – 5:15 pm
Crikey intern Sophie Cousins writes: Drilling for coal seam gas (CSG) is thriving along Australia’s east coast amid community backlash over the risks involved with the industry. The Greens have called for a moratorium on mining activities throughout NSW until an independent investigation is conducted, but Greens MP David Shoebridge told Crikey that the closure of [...]
November 9, 2010 – 9:49 pm
I confess to being a little taken aback by the swing back towards campaigning for immediate adoption of a cap-and-trade emissions scheme that appears to be gaining ground in sections of the environment movement. This, in my opinion, is a misguided strategy that risks stifling progress at a critical moment instead of opening the space [...]
October 8, 2010 – 8:23 am
The debate over how to allocate water from the Murray Darling Basin is raging once again. Crikey intern Jane Vashti Ryan takes a look at the background, the players and the fight for the Murray Darling.
The pressing question climate campaigners are asking themselves is: where do we go now that politics have failed us miserably?
January 27, 2010 – 10:12 am
The Greens’ climate policies, from our proposed CPRS amendments to our Safe Climate Bill, have been widely lauded as being the most economically sensible and scientifically literate of all the parties’. But Mungo MacCallum wouldn’t let that reality get in the way of a good pro-ALP story. Perhaps the most egregious error in Monday’s diatribe [...]
December 12, 2009 – 8:53 pm
Exclusive to Crikey – Possibly the greatest Scandal of this decade “Carbongate” – the theft of billions of dollars in Carbon Credits. Over the coming week Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will attend the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and be hailed as one of the world leaders on climate change action. The PM attends the [...]
November 9, 2009 – 11:11 am
Kevin Rudd’s speech to the Lowy Institute last Friday was one of the most extraordinary pieces of rhetorical hypocrisy this country has seen in recent years. Coming only days after he had been singled out by African negotiators at the Barcelona pre-Copenhagen talks as one of the leaders whose action does not match his political [...]
