Climate

  • Australia burns while the PM fiddles

    Written by Max Gross, Monday 6 January 2020 It is cold here in Melbourne – 15c – overcast, raining intermittently today and yesterday, the first “rain” I have seen in months, but this drizzle will have no effect on the catastrophic bushfires that have been burning since September and exploded on NYE, leaving me marooned,

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  • Budget 2018: Take No Prisoners!

    The curtain has dropped and the phony North Shore wizard and the gibbering flying monkeys of the LNP are as startlingly exposed as a baboons arse

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  • Abbott, Jones & the Convoy of Crackpots

    Gillard might not have all the answers – and by christ she has a lot to answer for – but at least she is moving in the right direction, encouraging new investment and technologies while Abbott’s coterie of denialists defend the 21st-century’s equivalent of the horse-and-cart: the fossil fuel industry

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  • Climate Change Remains The Same

    “…economic rationalism, a sneer on its face, lays about itself, hacking Australia’s fabric without anaesthetic and assuring the screaming patient that at the end of the slashing he’ll be grateful”

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