May 23, 2022
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…
November 15, 2021
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…
November 10, 2021
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….
November 1, 2021
COP26 is being billed as the most crucial summit in the history of the world. After all it is only attempting to save said world from extinction, writes Murray Ritchie. It’s tempting…
May 12, 2020
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…
January 1, 2020
The climate has turned terrorist against nature, but one dare not mention the words ‘climate change’ or ‘climate emergency’, writes Geoff Kitney I am writing this wearing a gauze mask. As I…
May 24, 2019
Too late now for Theresa May, but Australia has just provided a lesson: get the politics right first and worry about the consequences later, writes Geoff Kitney. When Theresa May picked up…
April 15, 2019
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…
December 2, 2018
“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…
September 5, 2018
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,…