Tag: The Saturday Paper

Surprisingly, our governments don’t seem to learn from experiences such as the pandemic and natural disasters. What should be an opportunity for mature debate and to start to create that future gets so easily lost in what has become a very tribal, adversarial, slugging and slanging match, called “the campaign”. The latest and overused terms […]

Three-quarters of projects awarded lucrative carbon credits by the government yielded no environmental benefit, according to Professor Andrew Macintosh, one of Australia’s foremost experts on environmental law and policy and the director of research at the Australian National University law school. “People are … getting credits for growing trees that are already there,” he says. […]