By Andy Hutchinson When Woolworths shuttered their virtually new Masters Home Improvement store in South Nowra, the debate began as to what should occupy the well-known site. In the local press, in broadcast media and in social media groups people offered up their views on what should happen. "Give us a Big W" and "How

By George Monbiot At last people are waking up to the fishing industry’s devastating impacts. When the BBC made a film about the crisis in our oceans, it somehow managed to avoid naming their greatest cause of ecological destruction: the fishing industry. The only significant sequence on fishing in 2017’s Blue Planet II was a heart-warming story about how

By Stuart Rees While Israel and Palestine are geographically distant, there’s no excuse for the Labor Party‘s out of touch support for a two-state solution, and for appearing unaware of critiques of the controversial Israeli supported definition of anti-Semitism.  At their recent national conference, the Labor Party passed a resolution which starts with the mother

By Jess Whittaker How is it possible that in 2020, a school mum riding her bike home in southern Wollongong could stumble on what might be one of the most polluted waterways in Australia?   Port Kembla has a history of heavy polluting industry dating back to the 1920s. The smokestacks of the Steelworks and

By Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Lesley Hughes Imagine, for a moment, a different kind of Australia. One where bushfires on the catastrophic scale of Black Summer happen almost every year. One where 50℃ days in Sydney and Melbourne are common. Where storms and flooding have violently reshaped our coastlines, and unique ecosystems have been damaged beyond