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Australia’s new parliament will meet for the first time tomorrow, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the helm. Albanese won the election with a promise to raise Australia’s ambition on climate change, and intends to enshrine Labor’s target to cut emissions 43% by 2030 into law.
In today’s lead story, Monash University Associate Professor Anita Foerster says this commitment to legislate climate targets is welcome – yet long overdue. Many countries already have climate laws in place, and Foerster urges the government to learn from their successes and failures. Such laws are grounded in provisions to hold governments accountable, ensuring they stay on track to meet emission reduction targets.
Foerster’s new research looked at Victoria’s climate change law, and compared it to others around the world. She highlights four crucial lessons for the federal government on designing and implementing effective climate legislation: nothing short of catastrophic climate change is on the bargaining table.
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Anthea Batsakis
Deputy Editor: Environment + Energy
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Anita Foerster, Monash University; Alice Bleby, UNSW Sydney; Anne Kallies, RMIT University
New research looked at similar laws in Victoria and around the world. The Albanese government must learn from their successes and failures.
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Hamish McManus, UNSW Sydney; Clive Seed, The University of Western Australia; Matthew Law, UNSW Sydney
We calculated there was a one in 1.4 billion chance of someone contracting vCJD from a blood transfusion. And that risk will get even smaller with time.
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Michelle Arrow, Macquarie University
In his 1972 novel The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin powerfully dramatised women’s suburban alienation and men’s resistance to feminist change. Michelle Arrow traces its enduring influence.
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Thomas Britz, UNSW Sydney
It has long been thought the ancient Greeks used the Golden Ratio to beautify their art and architecture. Turns out that’s not really true.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The government this week will take the first step in killing off the controversial Australian Building and Construction Commission by stripping back its powers “to the bare legal minimum”. The government…
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Coalition government had hoped that news of the boat would support its claim a Labor government would encourage the people smuggler trade, which would in turn sway some voters at the last moment.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan discusses the week in politics, including the threat of foot and mouth disease, the government’s climate bill and the grim economic news ahead.
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Ben Wellings, Monash University
Boris Johnson is about to leave 10 Downing Street to be replaced by one of two colleagues. His history in the top job is a chequered one.
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Joshua Black, Australian National University
Ex-prime ministers have been a varied bunch - some committing themselves to public service; others firing shots from the sidelines. Scott Morrison appears to be taking an altogether different path.
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Health + Medicine
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Angela Dew, Deakin University; Joanne Watson, Deakin University; Louisa Smith, Deakin University; Mahmoud Murad, Deakin University
Refugees from non-English speaking backgrounds with disabilities face the twin obstacles of English language courses that don’t work for them and disability services that don’t speak their language.
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Science + Technology
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Adriana Errico, University of Southern Queensland; Brad Carter, University of Southern Queensland; Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland
The unusual planetary system has a host star orbited by two giants. One has an incredible odd route around its star. And the other (unlike our own gas giants) is hellishly hot.
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Environment + Energy
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David Lindenmayer, Australian National University
This fictitious project approval helps us better understand how environmental governance in Australia has gone badly wrong.
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David Bowman, University of Tasmania; Christopher I. Roos, Southern Methodist University; Fay Johnston, University of Tasmania
Indigenous fire management reduces the risk of bushfires, supports habitat and improves Indigenous wellbeing. Yet, the State of the Environment report this week found it’s underused.
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Arts + Culture
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Catherine Speck, University of Adelaide
From the botanical gardens to the art gallery, Adelaide’s winter is awash with light.
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