Bushfires disproportionately expose disadvantaged communities, and a one‑size‑fits‑all recovery can deepen those inequalities.
- Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The study found poorer communities, renters and women carried the heaviest burdens long after the Black Summer fires were put out.
The NT government has given billions of litres of water from the Roper River to irrigators. When will Australia start managing our rivers for the future?
Policy reform is urgently needed to make water use in Australia sustainable, but it won’t be effective unless it’s based on facts.
We calculated lost productivity due to long COVID. The impacts were greatest among people aged 30 to 49.
In the struggle against aqua nullius, Indigenous people’s right to make decisions about water on Country is a priority.
Climate change shouldn’t be used as a “get out-of jail free” card to excuse bad decision-making and poor planning decisions.
NSW needs to mandate masks outdoors, provide adequate financial support, set up a ‘ring of steel’, use rapid tests for essential workers, and ensure cases not in full isolation get to zero, among others.
A major new report from the Productivity Commission calls for an overhaul of Australia’s 17-year-old policy on water.
The government has chosen a route not backed by evidence, and which will deliver a bad deal to taxpayers and the environment.
Thirty years since Australia’s water reform project began, it’s clear our efforts have largely failed. We must find another way.
Knee-jerk responses to water insecurity won’t fix the basin. The harder and longer path is delivering real water reform, including transparent water planning enshrined in law.
Australian National University modelling has a good record on predicting infections. Deaths will depend on the extent of the lockdown.
How can Australia’s new Inspector General be expected to inspect waterways without a firm grasp of how much water in in them?
New South Wales has pledged to walk away from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, while Victoria’s water minister has declared the plan ‘over’.
A dozen leading researchers have issued an urgent call to action for the Murray-Darling Basin, arguing that the billions spent on water-efficient irrigation have done little for the rivers’ health.
The past few days has shown that the issue of water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin is “back on the boil”. The current discussion is about what evidence is credible and how “evidence” is used to support…
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