The Liberal-National party is taking a hard-line stance on climate change. But are they just following Pauline Hanson’s lead?
- Redmond Barry Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
When Trump, a climate denier, announced the change, he said fossil fuels have “saved millions of lives” all over the world.
In 2015, global leaders gathered in force to get the Paris Agreement done. A decade later, shifting geopolitics makes a very different landscape for climate talks.
Australia’s clean energy transition cannot succeed unless the government opens debate and decision-making to many more voices.
The Morrison government’s great refusal to take action on climate may come back to haunt Australia when we seek the cooperation of other countries.
The halls of the Marrakech climate summit have been filled with fearful talk about Donald Trump’s presidency. But there is hope that the Paris climate treaty can weather the political storm.
What’s in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
At the Paris climate talks, the world has signed up to the first truly global treaty to tackle global warming. Our experts react.
Australia has made several climate-themed announcements since the start of the Paris talks, but nothing that cuts to the heart of the climate issue.
In diplomatic terms, COP21 already has “success” built in. But there is still lots of work to do to hit the two-degree global warming goal.
The Anthropocene, as an epoch of human-driven planetary change, poses huge environmental and political problems. But it could also force us to develop proper ecological and democratic accountability.
Welcome to our “In Conversation” between former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and Melbourne University political scientist Professor Robyn Eckersley. First elected to Federal parliament in 1955, Fraser…
Both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott have staked their political futures on their climate policies. So perhaps they should also be asking what the hallmarks are of a climate leader? The German political…
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