Climate Change

New Australian PM promises to end climate wars

Anthony Albanese, Australia’s 31st prime minister, is offering a different kind of politics, starting with inclusion not division, writes Geoff Kitney in Canberra The elephant in the room that Australia’s political leaders…

King coal is coming to an end – eventually

The Glasgow COP26 outcome was the best we could have expected – those wanting more and branding it a failure were never going to be satisfied, writes Murray Ritchie. So the enemy…


The changing of the political guard

Battles to save the planet have re-ignited inter-generational conflict, writes Geoff Kitney. In Australia, the young are taking on the big mining companies whose wealthy owners wield immense power. Beware the children….



Covid-19: Big business fights back

There are powerful forces with deeply vested interests in ensuring that the world that existed before the pandemic is the world that emerges after it, writes Geoff Kitney. The fear factor has…




A changing climate boosts the political divide

The young have taken to the streets in peaceful protest showing governments that they too have a voice. The upcoming Australian election may prove them right, says Geoff Kitney. As the world…


Gilets jaunes : yellow is the new red

“It’s not a matter of the end of the world, it’s the end of the month that counts.” A grassroots quasi-revolutionary uprising is shaking the foundations of the French political establishment, writes…


Climate of division, even in the Lucky Country

Australia was once dubbed ‘the lucky country’. The difficult and divisive issue of climate change may just have put paid to that, writes Geoff Kitney. Travelling through Europe over the past month,…