Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering? Because of what she represents. In an age when democracy is under assault, she hints at the emergence of a new kind of power, a convergence of youth, popular protest and irrefutable science. And for her loudest detractors, she also represents something else: the sight of their impending obsolescence hurtling towards them.
Alan Kohler, in an opinion piece in the pretend Murdoch ‘newspaper’ The Australian, has called for a Royal Commission into climate change and uses, as an analogy, the banking Royal…
I attended the climate strike rally in Canberra yesterday, and was impressed by the number of people in attendance, which I estimated to be about 15,000. However, my expertise in…
I went to university with Eric Abetz and upon the mention of his name, most people at the University of Tasmania would simply roll their eyes. Everyone knew he was…
Just over two months ago, I wrote a piece on where the Religious Discrimination bill was likely to go, given the content of the recommendations from the Ruddock review into…
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Tuvalu is a small South Pacific island nation just a few degrees south of the equator, just on the western side of the International Date Line, and about half way…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organisation and international tribunal that sits in The Hague, in the Netherlands. The ICC has jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international…