End of the road: Uber and millennials help US cities cut car addiction
The growth of car-free homes, a drop in driver’s licences and increased car-sharing could all be signs of a move away from the automobile If all goes according to plan, next year construction will begin on a 30-storey residential tower in Austin, Texas. Nothing new in the daily life of a booming city, except for […]
Salt in their veins and fire in their bellies: fishermen battling for Brexit
The EU referendum has united an often fractious industry, with skippers in ports from northern Scotland to Cornwall desperate to dump imposed quotas William Whyte has a new flag flying from the rigging of his vast blue-hulled trawler, its fabric snapping in the brisk breeze coming in off the North Sea. It features the cartoon […]
Fatal crocodile attack on woman in Queensland revives calls to allow hunt
Shooting safaris should be allowed to control the reptiles’ numbers, which had ‘exploded’, says MP Bob Katter, criticising rival Warren Entsch for saying ‘You can’t legislate against human stupidity’ A suspected fatal crocodile attack on a missing tourist in Australia’s far north-eastern wilderness has revived a perennial dispute about how to deal with a protected […]
Eyewitness: California
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Close encounters on a bear mountain
Tara national park, Serbia The extraordinary thing is not how comfortable local people are around bears but how they live in almost parallel worlds Sitting in a forest hut for three hours watching a glade fill with shadows tests to the limits all that modern life has made of us, especially our capacities for patience, […]
Q&A: Di Natale decries major parties' support for coalmines as 'great tragedy' – video
Greens leader Richard Di Natale criticises Labor and the Coalition for their commitments to new coalmines, accusing them of taking huge donations from the fossil fuel lobby and harming the future of renewables on ABC’s Q&A program on Monday. When asked about his plans for central Queensland, Di Natale says: ‘I tell you what we […]
How Greg Hunt and his department turned good news into an international scandal
The full draft of the Unesco report on climate change reveals many mentions of Australia were actually positive Greg Hunt has conducted one of the strangest manoeuvres of his already rather gymnastic career, over the erasure of Australia from a United Nations report on climate change. Guardian Australia had broken the story that all mentions […]
Josh Frydenberg targets Labor candidates opposed to new coalmines
Resources minister says candidates are challenging Bill Shorten’s authority on coal and Adani’s Carmichael mine The resources minister, Josh Frydenberg, has taken aim at a number of outspoken Labor candidates who oppose new coalmines and called on Bill Shorten to clarify the party’s position. The Courier-Mail has reported Labor’s candidate for North Sydney, Peter Hayes, […]
Most voters support transition to 100% renewable energy, says Australia Institute
Polling indicates 71% would be more likely to vote for a party that supported distributed small-scale solar and storage Battery storage technology has the potential to reshape not just the energy and transport sectors but also the upcoming Australian federal election, according to a new report. The Australia Institute report Securing Renewables: How Batteries Solve […]
Q&A: Coalition and Labor accuse Richard Di Natale of being 'arrogant'
Labor’s Terri Butler and the Coalition’s Steve Ciobo turn on Greens leader after he describes their commitment to coalmines ‘the great tragedy’ The commitment by both major parties to new coalmines that threaten the Great Barrier Reef was “the great tragedy” of Australian politics, Greens leader Richard Di Natale told the ABC’s Q&A program on […]