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As the government shelves important reform to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, the Knitting Nannas are getting out into their communities and demanding an end to fossil fuel projects.

The Knitting Nannas redefining the face of activism

Freedom of Information laws have helped the public uncover information governments would prefer to keep secret, but the system is failing.

Making freedom of information “sexy” with Rex Patrick

Rather than delivering on their election promise to create a Great Koala National Park, the New South Wales Government is sitting on its hands until it can earn carbon credits from forests.

Not seeing the koalas for the carbon credits

The major parties claim that minority and coalition governments are chaotic and unworkable, but are they actually more effective?

Minority retort

After scarcely mentioning it for nearly a decade while in government, the Coalition are now hot to trot on nuclear power – but why?

The end of capitalism with Yanis Varoufakis

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