Celebrating the festival of the boot – what emergency where – by kicking the...
So it didn’t take long for the rabid hysterics and the over-the-top hysteria to produce an absolute clanger. Yet these images remain widely available on the full to overflowing intertubes, and without...
View ArticleBioenergy: Australia’s forgotten renewable energy source (so far)
When we think of renewable energy, it’s easy to picture spinning wind turbines or rooftop solar panels. But what about bioenergy? While wind and solar are now well established – in South Australia wind...
View ArticleA day to demand that the world wake up and avert nuclear doom
Two odd facts. First, the United Nations General Assembly has declared September 26, the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. You might yawn. Why bother? That’s never going...
View ArticleDon’t worry about taking heed, just be happy to be deceived by the speakers...
Now it might seem cheeky for Americans to start criticising Australia in the matter of climate science, given that country’s own dismal record, but thanks to Tony Abbott and crew, even the Americans...
View ArticleInvestment in science hits 30 year low
The Australian government’s investment in research and development has dropped to its lowest level in 30 years, an analysis of government figures shows.
View ArticleDirty air, dodgy politics in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley
Why it’s easier to attack science than listen to Morwell fire death statistics.
View ArticleDirty air, dodgy politics: why it’s easier to attack science than listen to...
I’m quite nervous about writing this. I’m going to stray from my familiar academic world into a political one, and it’s on an issue that may very well have killed several people. My reputation has...
View ArticleNATSEM: UWA model would lift uni debt for women, disadvantaged
The University of Western Australia recently announced its proposed post-deregulation price structure. UWA’s new fee is a flat fee of A$16,000 per year for undergraduate courses, which is significantly...
View Article‘Wait and see’ on climate? No, the science is clear: act now
When should we act to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change: now, or later when we know more?
View ArticleWomen scientists get vocal about top billing
A steady infiltration of scientists onto Twitter has accompanied the growing recognition that a social media presence is just as important as taking the podium at a conference. Social media is leading...
View ArticleTracking Abbott’s Wreckage ”October Update”
Sally McManus is the Secretary of the Australian Services Union in NSW and the ACT. She has been a campaigner and an organiser for more than 20 years and spent a lot of time doing and talking about...
View ArticleHealth cuts and education deregulation: critical issues for Indigenous doctors
Members of the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association are gathering in Melbourne today for the start of their annual conference, at a time of great uncertainty for Indigenous health and Indigenous...
View ArticleIn which outrageous suggestions are all the go …
Speaking of making suggestions, and often quite outrageous suggestions, it was impossible while watching Media Watch last night – the show is on catch up under the header Telling tales of terror -not...
View ArticleClimate change. Is the growing momentum for action enough to prevent this...
As recently reported at Croakey, these past weeks have brought an increased momentum in global efforts to tackle climate change – although the image below is a reminder that Australia is dragging the...
View ArticleTabloid terror, will it never end …
The pond was wondering when there’d be payback for the series of shameless political inquiries and witch hunts launched by the Abbott government as soon as it got into power.
View ArticleGo on, Greg Hunt it here …
At the end of the day, you sometimes have to flatten a town to save it, and at the end of the day you need people on the ground to sort the fighters from the civilians, and at some point, someone in...
View ArticleIs the free market free?
On 2 September when the Senate passed the repeal of the mining tax, the legislation included a considerable slowing of the process to increase superannuation for workers. Senator Lazarus for PUP, and...
View ArticleChange is a process . . . not an event
I was first introduced to the internet when I was doing some work for a friend, a scientist, who worked for the CSIRO. He asked me to put his email address on some marketing material that I was...
View ArticleClimate change threatens Western Australia’s iconic Shark Bay
In the summer of 2010-2011 Western Australia experienced an unprecedented heatwave — but not on land. Between December 2010 and April 2011, sea temperatures off the WA coast reached 3C above average,...
View ArticleOn the “two worlds” of Indigenous knowledge and Western science
Current and future Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors and medical scientists have been urged to ensure their “two worlds” of Indigenous knowledge and Western science converge across their...
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