Enough time has been lost arguing “jobs versus climate” – the transition to renewable energy is now rightly understood as an economic opportunity, rather than a detrimental trade-off.
Sustainable aviation fuel, made from non-petroleum feedstocks, is the most promising path to reducing aviation’s carbon footprint, but it’s not without its challenges.
Cost-of-living increases, inflation, and energy prices affect everyone. And that matters even more when we’re amid a significant generational shift in voting patterns.
Australia must utilise its comprehensive strategic partnership with ASEAN to share knowledge and advance areas for collaboration, to accelerate the energy transition and green economy.
A recent research study sheds light on the challenges of Australia’s hydrogen transition and adoption plans in the face of shifting global dynamics.
There’s little that can be done to make Qantas more responsive to its customers while it dominates the domestic aviation market.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
If we’re to effectively tackle the critical challenge of climate change, we urgently need a better and more coordinated global transformation to environmentally-friendly economies.
On a new episode of Monash University’s ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast, discover how we can ensure our transition to a decarbonised future is just.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has kept poverty and inequality on the policy agenda.
Critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium and rare earth elements abound in Australia, but we’re not making the most of these in-demand resources.
The Australian Greens, rather than the Labor Party, have emerged as the champions of the contemporary Australian welfare state.
There are things we need to unlearn, learn and relearn about conditions for living together on this planet in just, equitable and sustainable ways.
Cities and regions can capitalise on the benefits of the COVID-induced intercity and intracity migration, but it will require a pivot in planning and design policy.
A review of vocational training and education in Victoria proposes a restructure that better connects training with economic needs.
A 2050 net zero goal will provide clarity, ambition and focus. But Scott Morrison must back rhetoric with investment and policy commensurate with the task.
The federal government has unveiled a budget filled with tax cuts and massive fiscal stimulus that will generate billions in deficits through to 2023.
Stimulus investment after the pandemic presents a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to pivot economies away from emissions-intensive growth, and towards green growth.
Regardless of the federal government's mixed messages about Australia’s energy future, renewables have a vital part to play.
Governments will rely on taxation to repair the fiscal damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that will likely mean a GST rise, even if there are better, but politically unpalatable, alternatives.
Coronavirus and stimulus spending creates a golden opportunity for low-carbon transition.
With Melbourne’s population continuing to boom, urban planners and academics have a vision for the city to become a network of connected communities where people will be able to walk or cycle to amenities.
Ten years ago, politicians would routinely voice disdain for climate science. Now, while the policy debate remains fierce, the battleground has shifted to economics and jobs.
Traditional masculinity is evolving, and young working-class men are leading the charge, despite the toxic attitudes of powerful men such as Donald Trump.
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