Climate change
Viewpoint: What’s in half a degree
of climate change?
Our dual needs to save the planet and power our modern lives have thrown a spotlight on the way we produce and use energy.
Bombarded by often contradictory information about energy consumption and the urgency of our climate change goals, people are demanding better explanation of the facts behind the rhetoric.
That is why energy has been chosen as the first topic for the BBC Briefing, a mini-series of in-depth, downloadable guides to the big issues of the day.
With input from academics, researchers and journalists, the Briefing offers the context and evidence in one place. You can download a copy, or read it in your browser, via the following link.
We hope this pilot, examining key national issues in a new, more in-depth way, provides useful and reliable data, research and analysis for you to digest wherever you are. If you’d like some tips on navigating it, scroll down this page.
The BBC Briefing has inspired a collection of special reports, features and analysis from across BBC News to help you find out even more.
You pay millions for these imbeciles to encourage conspiracy theories and...
We get so used to the bonkers shit that goes on in the Australian Senate that it starts to seem unremarkable. Frustrating, exasperating, eye-rolling,...
Barangaroo is rubbish and now its wretched offspring are spawning across...
Philip Thalis asserts thatBarangaroo is a symbol of squandered opportunities to make a better Sydney. I was part of the winning team – Hill...
Australia’s biggest gambling operators be warned – media pack is baying...
Often enough, a single news organisation will crack an important story or begin a worthy crusade and the rest of the media ignore it...
A troubling environment
Our environment is in deep trouble. We are all suffering as a result. Elected officials at all levels behave as if tackling the problem...
The professional classes make billion-dollar tax rorts possible
“The key lesson from WA Inc was that the shonks, crooks, spivs and conmen only really thrive with the assistance of the professional classes –...
Ministers’ diaries: taxpayers deserve transparency on what MPs are doing
The states that already allow their citizens to have some idea of what their highly paid ministers are doing are extending that transparency, yet...
Political donations reform is overdue — Labor shouldn’t waste time with...
Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell’s commitment to lowering the political donation disclosure threshold to $1000 and requiring real-time reporting of donations is a welcome...
When is a secret meeting for lobbying not a secret meeting?
Ed Straw and Ray Ison write in Pearls and Irritations ICAC urges ban on secret meetings with lobbyists. In other words, ICAC practitioners imagine a...
Energy prices leave few winners — while the rest of us...
Bernard Keane writes in The GuardianSeveral long-term trends are now intersecting in a way that is going to deepen economic divisions in Australia, as...
How Nationals and lobbyists play the new climate wars
By The SaturdayPaper's
Marian Wilkinson
Young and with a ready smile, James Thomson appears an unlikely foot soldier in the new climate wars. But the Maitland...
Annabell Crab mussings
Western democracy was so much easier 300 years ago, when it was illegal for journalists to report the goings-on in Parliament.
In those days, politicians...
Stemming the coronavirus spread
Chief executive of the Grattan Institute Dr John Daley said Australia could go one of two ways now the nation had passed the 100-case...
