The Guardian • environment
World on the edge of an abyss: UN Secretary-General
“I am here to sound the alarm: the world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss – and moving in the wrong direction.”
Read moreA Cohesive Society After Capitalism
It seems that the capitalist way of living has been with us forever, but it has only come about since early global trading developed around the sixteenth century.
Read moreClimate cooperation cancelled with largest trading partner over baseless national security concerns
A cooperative research partnership between Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and China’s Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM) has been cancelled.
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Issue #1966
Australia’s biggest polluter fails to sue Greenpeace
Energy company AGL has lost a court case against environmental activist group Greenpeace.
Read moreJoyce, Morrison, and the battle over net zero emissions
On 21st July, the National Party of Australia replaced their leader Michael McCormack with former leader Barnaby Joyce.
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Issue #2022
The 2022 Tibet Think Tank Forum
On 26th August this year, I participated in the China Tibet Think Tank International Forum, hosted by the Institute of Tibet Studies in Beijing. It...
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Issue #2031
CPA: submission to the Defence Strategic Review
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a democratic, transparent and accountable organisation. We are member led and governed by a Central Committee elected every...
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Issue #2032
Huge union delegation supports Gomeroi rights against Santos’s First Nations and environmental destruction
The union movement has mobilised in solidarity with the Gomeroi people’s struggle against the climate-wrecking Pilliga/Narrabri coal seam gas mining operation on Gomeroi lands in...
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Issue #2029
WEASEL WORDS
CARBON-NEUTRAL /ˌkɑː.bən ˈnjuː.trəl/ This is a good thing, right? It means that the thing which has been so described at least doesn’t add any more...
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Issue #2016
DINGO
At its Jobs and Skills Summit in September, the federal government will respond to staff shortages in nursing and aged care with a plan to...
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Issue #2044
School strike for action on climate change
On 3rd March, about 100 mostly school children rallied in the Supreme Gardens in Perth directly opposite one of the principal corporate emitters of carbon...
Read moreUN IPCC Report
“Climate change is already affecting every inhabited region across the globe with human influence contributing to many observed changes in weather and climate extremes.”
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Issue #2025
Diversity – sustainability – socialism
Cuba is one of the world’s most sustainable economies despite the six decades’ long illegal and economically crippling US blockade. Since the 1960s, the Cuban...
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Issue #2003
Sham carbon projects have cost taxpayers $1 billion
The Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) has spent more than one billion dollars of public money on projects which do not have a chance in hell...
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Issue #2028
Coal industry workers in Australia are taking their destiny into their own hands
The coal industry is to Australia what the Second Amendment of the US Constitution (granting citizens the right to bear arms) is to the United...
Read moreEffect of the military on carbon emissions and soil pollution
Every second year the US and Australian military hold war games, called Talisman Sabre in Queensland, in areas of high environmental significance: some being world heritage areas and natural heritage sites.
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Issue #2017
State of the Environment report
“Overall, the state and trend of the environment of Australia are poor and deteriorating as a result of increasing pressures from climate change, habitat loss,...
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Issue #2019
It’s fine to protest, so long as you pay for it
Daniel Andrews’ Victorian Labor government has once again proven its deep commitment and thoughtful approach to environmental sustainability by pushing a bill through parliament that...
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Issue #2025
“To give peace a chance, we need to give peace a budget”
On 21st September, the United Nations Day of Peace, the Communist Party of Australia calls for the Albanese Government to step back from war preparations...
Read moreWA Premier announces logging ban of native forests as part of state budget
On the 8th September 2021, in the lead-up to the presentation of the Western Australian State Budget, WA Premier and Treasurer Mark McGowan announced plans to end logging of native forests by mid-2024.
Read moreSocialism and capitalism: a tale of two approaches to enforcing environmental laws
It is no secret that in some societies, certain harmful activities go unpunished. For example, in the framework of a capitalist society, white-collar crimes are...
Read moreAustralian government continues to exploit Indigenous land
The federal government’s “gas-fired recovery” plans fly in the face of any reason ...
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Issue #2015
Dangers of space launches
A second NASA rocket was launched into space from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory on 6th July. It follows the first NASA launch on...
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Issue #2044
Bird vagrancy: an indicator of global climatic changes
In October 2022 a young Bar-Tailed Godwit broke a world record by flying non-stop from Alaska to Ansons Bay, Tasmania, 13,560 km in 11 days....
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Issue #2027
Dumping on First Nations People
“That dump would poison the water and poison everything else, the food, the cattle, and everything else that’s gonna live off of the water.” Eileen...
Read morePetition: no nuclear submarines
AUKUS and a submarine fleet shows a complete disregard for the democratic process and undermines sovereignty.
Read moreReef policy is all bark no bite
For the past year, the Australian government has been waging a concerted battle against UNESCO to stop the Great Barrier Reef from being added to...
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Issue #1980
Two new coal mines green-lit, gov’t ignores climate emergency
The federal government continues to fail Australia’s future generations as it deepens its commitment to coal.
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Issue #1981
Frydenberg offers net-zero but we demand more
Last month, cracks began to appear in the Coalition government’s policy on climate change. Speaking to leaders in the financial sector, federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg...
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Issue #2044
GREEN NOTES
Anna Pha Last month Labor’s minister for environmental destruction, Tanya Plibersek, quietly granted Santos a licence to open 116 new coal seam gas wells in...
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Issue #2025
Good planets are hard to find
La Niña event is under way for the third year in a row according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The Pacific, including Australia, can expect...
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Issue #2029
Australia: The big polluter
Australia is the world’s largest gas and coal exporter. There are currently 114 new or expanded fossil fuel projects awaiting approval. In 2021-22, governments in...
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Issue #1971
Green ban reaffirmed as legal avenues to save Willow Grove exhausted
On Friday 16th July, the NSW Court of Appeal ruled against the North Parramatta Residents’ Action Group (NPRAG), upholding the Land and Environmental Court’s judgement that Infrastructure NSW’s Environmental Impact Statement was valid.
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Issue #2037
Welcome to a year of struggles for working people!
This first issue of the Guardian for 2023 gives me the chance to talk about the Party’s priorities for 2023: the struggle for peace, the...
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Issue #2045
Historic oceans agreement
On March 4, 2023, after two weeks of negotiations and a final 36-hour sitting 193 nations reached agreement on a treaty to protect the biodiversity...
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Issue #2045
NO AUKUS
Under the appalling AUKUS plan announced by US President Biden on Tuesday (Australian time), Australia will begin hosting US nuclear-powered and armed submarines from this...
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