Climate Tasmania

Of all the questions thrown up by Election 2010, there’s none bigger than where Australia is heading on climate change and our growing carbon emissions — and the threat posed by peak oil. [24 August 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Sometimes it takes an outsider to see us as we really are. People like visiting American media specialist [...]

Tasmania’s first climate change minister is a positive note for the new Labor-Green ministry, but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. [27 April 2010 | Peter Boyer]
At last we have a government. A bit cobbled together, not a neat Labor or Liberal package like we’ve been used to, but it seems to [...]

Past attempts at cooperative government have ended in failure, but now we have a confident Green party prepared to negotiate its way into government. For the sake of real (as opposed to fake) environmental and energy policy, it’s to be hoped that things will turn out differently this time. [13 April 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Democracy, the world’s [...]