The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why. Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news. Two women
BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner’s case. Stephanie Tran reports. The Federal Court of Australia has struck out a landmark case brought by an injured coal miner against BHP Group Limited and related entities, refusing him leave to
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of intervention by Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board documents reveal.
The post Randa Abdel-Fattah cancelled due to Malinauskas, board documents reveal appeared first on The Klaxon.
While Australia is yet to respond to Donald Trump’s Board of Peace invite, several Muslim countries have, including Indonesia. What does President Prabowo hope to achieve, asks Duncan Graham? The Board of Peace was set up as a “global collaboration platform to support the stabilisation of conflict areas and post-conflict
Months of infighting at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) culminate in a no-confidence vote today. Stephanie Tran reports. The RACP board is meeting today to consider bullying allegations against the President and CEO and decide on the future of the embattled board of directors. More than 100
On the AI stalking horse – and the fight to contain data centres
According to energy writer Ketan Joshi Anthropic, which is one of the leaders in the AI revolution, does not disclose “a single number regarding their energy consumption, emissions, water impacts or biodiversity impacts”.
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Solarpunk promises regenerative, multispecies urban futures – but as its eco-futurist aesthetic travels from Singapore’s curated tourist icons to Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic transformation, sustainability risks sliding from systemic change into spectacle, and from ambition into greenwashing.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to ...
London gets the energy problem, and so do its buildings
There’s an intriguing story from Bloomberg this week – that private equity cash is reshaping the look of London’s offices, which is no surprise. What’s interesting, though, is that companies such as Blackstone and Brookfield Asset Management are refurbishing offices and, wait for it, ditching ...
In an unfortunate win for big oil and gas, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR)’s case against Santos in federal court was dismissed this week – but now the oil and gas lobby wants to take it one step further and remove the democratic right of organisations to sue them in court.
The case already had huge barriers to scale, being ...
Sixty years on from the Vietnam War marches, Australian union bosses are mostly MIA when it comes to protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Andrew Gardiner reports. The genocide in Gaza, and moves to muzzle talking about it in universities and schools, have rank-and-file unionists up in arms. But union officials
The media continues to be filled with forecasts about the investment – and societal – implications of AI. Some of these forecasts are moving markets. On Monday the S&P 500 and Nasdaq sold off over 1% which was at least partially attributed to a dystopian vision of the future by Citrini Research.
The report outlined a scenario where heavy ...
While top bureaucrats are now earning one million a year, the tribunal that decides who gets what is doing its best to keep its decisions secret. Rex Patrick reports. The head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet gets over $1 million a year, and the Secretaries of
The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why. Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news. Two women
BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner’s case. Stephanie Tran reports. The Federal Court of Australia has struck out a landmark case brought by an injured coal miner against BHP Group Limited and related entities, refusing him leave to
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of intervention by Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board documents reveal.
The post Randa Abdel-Fattah cancelled due to Malinauskas, board documents reveal appeared first on The Klaxon.
While Australia is yet to respond to Donald Trump’s Board of Peace invite, several Muslim countries have, including Indonesia. What does President Prabowo hope to achieve, asks Duncan Graham? The Board of Peace was set up as a “global collaboration platform to support the stabilisation of conflict areas and post-conflict
Months of infighting at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) culminate in a no-confidence vote today. Stephanie Tran reports. The RACP board is meeting today to consider bullying allegations against the President and CEO and decide on the future of the embattled board of directors. More than 100
On the AI stalking horse – and the fight to contain data centres
According to energy writer Ketan Joshi Anthropic, which is one of the leaders in the AI revolution, does not disclose “a single number regarding their energy consumption, emissions, water impacts or biodiversity impacts”.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
“Midway ...
Solarpunk promises regenerative, multispecies urban futures – but as its eco-futurist aesthetic travels from Singapore’s curated tourist icons to Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic transformation, sustainability risks sliding from systemic change into spectacle, and from ambition into greenwashing.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to ...
London gets the energy problem, and so do its buildings
There’s an intriguing story from Bloomberg this week – that private equity cash is reshaping the look of London’s offices, which is no surprise. What’s interesting, though, is that companies such as Blackstone and Brookfield Asset Management are refurbishing offices and, wait for it, ditching ...
In an unfortunate win for big oil and gas, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR)’s case against Santos in federal court was dismissed this week – but now the oil and gas lobby wants to take it one step further and remove the democratic right of organisations to sue them in court.
The case already had huge barriers to scale, being ...
Sixty years on from the Vietnam War marches, Australian union bosses are mostly MIA when it comes to protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Andrew Gardiner reports. The genocide in Gaza, and moves to muzzle talking about it in universities and schools, have rank-and-file unionists up in arms. But union officials
The media continues to be filled with forecasts about the investment – and societal – implications of AI. Some of these forecasts are moving markets. On Monday the S&P 500 and Nasdaq sold off over 1% which was at least partially attributed to a dystopian vision of the future by Citrini Research.
The report outlined a scenario where heavy ...
While top bureaucrats are now earning one million a year, the tribunal that decides who gets what is doing its best to keep its decisions secret. Rex Patrick reports. The head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet gets over $1 million a year, and the Secretaries of