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This is how you capture environmental policy without killing the environment entirely. You write laws that prevent environmental protection from working. The Real Question Did the federal government’s environmental protection reform bills published 27 November […]

QUT Media Release Young Australians are calling for their voices to be heard with the federal government’s social media minimum age legislation set to come into effect on December 10. A new report published today, […]

A strategic analysis of Detachment 201 and the unprecedented fusion of corporate and military power In a move that formalises the military-industrial complex for the digital age, the U.S. Army has quietly sworn a group […]

By James Moore “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” (Frederick Douglass). She died at only age 20, picking up trash for […]

Part Three When your environmental law explicitly forbids considering environmental catastrophe, that’s not policy. That’s capture. The Climate Provision That Isn’t There Here’s the bit that will make you furious: Australia’s new environment law makes […]

By: L.J. “Flywheel” Pascolini Cultural critic A TV critic’s review sketched between thunderous applause and involuntary eye-twitching I like Landman. I like root canals too, but only one of these is meant to hurt. The […]

There is a moment in every conflict when language collapses. Words like justice, revenge, and security are repeated so often they lose their meaning. When that happens, something even graver follows, we stop seeing people […]

On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct participation in the […]

By now everyone is well aware of the Coalition and One Nation’s anti-renewable crusade, claiming the lights won’t go on and industry will be shuttered. ‘No net zero’ is a great marketing term – fitting […]

Part 2: How Australia’s Government Convinced Us It Cares About The Bush (Spoiler: It Doesn’t) One step forward and a giant leap backward. Real concessions on forests meet systemic failure on climate. This is how […]