No End for Drought as Sydney Disappears Into Smoke
Is toxic haze the new normal for Sydney?
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America’s Health Care Ripoff: An Example of Cancer Treatment in Australia
An Australian example of cancer treatment puts US health care to shame.
Read more...Australia Debates: Communist Party China the New Nazi Germany?
A row Down Under as a prominent and well placed MP says some not-nice things about China.
Read more...South China Sea Time Bomb Threatens To Go Off
China upsets its neighbors.
Read more...Waste Watch: Why Do We Discard So Many Edible Fish We Pull From the Sea?
New House of Lords report laments failure to slow discarding edible fish back into the sea; Australia also tosses much of its catch.
Read more...Adani is Cleared to Start Digging its Coal Mine – Six Key Questions Answered
Queensland gives Indian mining giant Adani go-ahead for massive coal mine, ignoring environmental and climate change concerns.
Read more...Australia Is at War With Itself Over China
The Australian secuirty services are in open war against the Government over its pro-China policies.
Read more...We Live in a World With Very Rich Multinational Mining Companies, and Very Poor Miners
The Porgera Joint Venture – a gold mining operation in Paupa New Guinea, sucks gold out of a mountaintop, providing little benefit to miners or the people who live near the mine. Activist groups, and a lawsuit recently filed in Australia, seek to change that, as well as correct horrific human rights abuses.
Read more...Why Suburbs Must Be the Next Frontier for Cities Policy
The challenge of suburbs for social and environmental policy.
Read more...The Silicon Curtain: The Gloves Come Off With China
An Australian perspective on the West’s growing conflict with China.
Read more...Global Gains on Right to Repair
The right to repair movement is growing — not just in the US, but in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand as well.
Read more...Rethinking Free Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times
Jomo Kwame Sundaram makes the case against the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that went into effect at the end of 2018, for six of its eleven member countries.
Read more...Wolf Richter: “Severe Collapse” of Home Prices Might Trigger a “Financial-Institution Crisis” in Australia: OECD Frets about the Banks
Australia looks to be on the verge of a nasty unwind of its housing bubble. A plunge would damage not only its banks but also retirement funds, since banks play an outsized role in the Australian stock market.
Read more...Protecting Coral Reefs: Sustainable Scuba Diving Practices
PADI, the world’s largest scuba diving training and certification group, and British conservation charity Reef-World Foundation, have joined forces to support the Green Fins scheme, to mitigate the impact of recreational diving on already-stressed coral reefs.
Read more...New Research: Australia’s Immigration System Undercuts Workers
Drawing lessons from Australia’s immigration policies.
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