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Canada lets the states lead on climate, should Australia do the same?

  • Written by: Cathy Alexander, Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed Australia a thing or two when he announced a new climate change plan last week – and not just because it was delivered impeccably in two languages. Trudeau has decided to leave climate policy to the provinces, while forcing them to act.

Is this state-based approach a model for Australia?

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The new UN deal on aviation emissions leaves much to be desired

  • Written by: David Hodgkinson, Associate Professor, University of Western Australia
imageIt's not quite time for international airlines to fly off into the sunsetAviation image www.shutterstock.com

Emissions fron international flights - a bugbear of efforts to combat climate change - will finally be regulated under a scheme agreed by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) on Thursday last week.

It’s a problem that...

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Turnbull's misgivings on renewables overlook economic and financial realities

  • Written by: Thomas Clarke, Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney

The key breakthrough in the COAG Energy Council meeting last week was the recognition of the need to integrate climate policy and energy policy.

This has the potential to establish a coherent national energy policy for Australia and to fix on firm national targets on emissions reductions to meet Australia’s commitments to the Paris climate...

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Joe Cinque's Consolation: violence, delusion and the question of guilt

  • Written by: Dirk de Bruyn, Associate Professor of Screen, Deakin University
imageMaggie Naouri as Anu Singh, behind Jerome Meyer as Joe Cinque. Singh famously killed Cinque in 1997 by injecting him with a fatal dose of heroin. Supplied

If you want your cinema neatly wrapped with a bow on top by the time you walk out of the theatre, then Sotiris Dounoukos’s Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2016) is not for you. The events...

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