Three years ago Chinese President Xi Jinping stood in front of the world’s business elite in Davos, defending the post-war international liberal order as President Donald Trump railed against globalisation. Now, 18 months later, a trade deal of sorts has been signed. The deal, whichever way you choose to break
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HISTORICAL CRIME: Maxwell Carl Skinner was an unremarkable petty criminal who would go on to scale the greatest of heights. Well, at least the biggest of Australia’s prison walls, writes Sarah McLean. Maxwell Carl Skinner – the man who became one of Victoria’s most well-known prison escapees (he clocked up
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There’s not a lot of point in the conservative Liberal-National federal government pleading ignorance on the extent of the current bushfire crisis, 12 years ago, economist Professor Ross Garnaut made a prophecy that has devastatingly come true. In the 2008 Climate Change Review prepared by Professor Garnaut, which examined
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An Aboriginal Cultural Burn is not guided by a prescription, it is guided by the close relationship that the Aboriginal Cultural Fire Practitioner has with Country and everything in it.
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Amid almost daily complaints from industry about skyrocketing electricity costs, out drops an announcement so counter to the dominant flow of news that it seems beyond belief. Yet there it is in the business pages: Australian software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and iron ore billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest are backing a
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Five of Australia’s top coal companies – Peabody, Yancoal Sumitomo, Citic and Whitehaven – racked up $54 billion in total income over the past five years and paid zero income tax in Australia, according to Tax Office corporate tax data. Fossil fuel companies should foot the bill for the fires,
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DON’T MISS ANYTHING! ONE CLICK TO GET NEW MATILDA DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX, FREE! Last month, Robby Wirramanda Knight and his family were labelled ‘government bludgers’ and ‘not real Aboriginals’ by their racist white neighbours. Now the family and Robby – who works three jobs, and owns several properties
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On New Year’s Eve, while much of the country was tuned into the annual fireworks displays, my parents and I had front row seats to a horror show that was unfolding across the lake from our recently purchased beach house at Manyana, three hours south of Sydney on the NSW
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A problem recognised is half solved.The biggest single problem facing Australia today is the fact that two major political parties have taken a stranglehold on our system of representative democracy. In the process they have turned politics into a career, making it no longer representative of the community at large,
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DON’T MISS ANYTHING! ONE CLICK TO GET NEW MATILDA DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX, FREE! SUB-TITLE: Understanding The Science Of Climate Change And Its Impact On Bushfires Through A Rigorous And Evidence-Based Analysis Of How Greenies Ruined The World By Peeing In Public Swimming Pools. By Chris Graham. Around the
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DCIM100GOPROG0095113. By 2024, it could be cheaper for Australian households to invest in solar, storage and an electric vehicle (EV) in combination, than in solar alone. A new Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) report suggests Australia is on the cusp of another solar revolution. Australia has one
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According to National Grid, Britain’s energy regulator, the birthplace of coal power, produced more electricity from zero-carbon sources such as wind, solar and nuclear than from fossil fuel plants for the first time in 2019. Having built the world’s first coal-fired power plant in the 1880s, coal became Britain’s
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