Tag: climate change
Recognising Indigenous knowledges is not just culturally sound, it’s good science
AAP Image/Supplied by DFES, Evan Collis - Cultural burning practices can clear out flammable plant materials that lead to bushfires.
Floods, fires and droughts in...
Plastic Free July: recycling is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. It’s time to teach kids to demand real change from the...
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Plastic Free July has rolled around again and we’ll all be hearing about reducing plastic use in our daily lives. Much of the messaging is...
‘Draconian and undemocratic’: why criminalising climate protesters in Australia doesn’t actually work
Image/Flavio Brancaleone: Police officers dispersing a protestor during a Blockade Australia rally in Sydney this week. AAP
A man who drove through a climate protest blocking...
Grattan on Saturday: Everything, it seems, is conspiring to test the Albanese government
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On Thursday Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen formally updated Australia’s international commitment for its proposed climate change action. It’s now...
Why is lettuce so expensive? Costs have shot up, and won’t return to where they were
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Lettuce prices are skyrocketing. Twitter users are posting photos of iceberg lettuces for A$10 and $11.99, well above the more usual $2.80.
It’s not new, and it’s...
The election shows the conservative culture war on climate change could be nearing its end
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Former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s shock loss to an independent running on a climate action platform wasn’t a fluke event. “Teal” independents have ousted...