Climate
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Climate and security risks? Shhh, says the Albanese Government
The Los Angeles fires have again demonstrated the need for a steely-eyed approach by governments to climate risks, ensuring that the assessment of those risks is up-to-date, considers the plausible worst-case scenarios, and is made widely available so the public understands what we are facing. But the Australian Government’s work-in-progress National Climate Risk Assessment appears…
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The Fraying of the Australian Social Contract – Dr Albert Palazzo
The Australian nation faces a convergence of events that risk the security and prosperity of its people. Some of these are well known and receive considerable attention from the government and the media, such as the consequences of China’s emergence as a great power. Others are equally well known but receive minimal attention and resources…
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Indigenous solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises: A reflection on UNDRIP
Indigenous Peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
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Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia’s Future, Podcast with Dr Joëlle Gergis
Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet – in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country?