Around the Web contains some of the Bulletin’s recommended reading, sourced from …around the web!
We’ll update the list regularly so be sure to check back for interesting reads.
2015
November
Climate summit held by business and green groups to end six-year policy war
Twitter is teetering because it has turned into one big pyramid scheme
Forget cancer: the worst thing about bacon is that it used to be a pig
ACT government fossil fuel divestment speed wins praise from environmental campaigners
Australia’s fearless flanker David Pocock shows sport and politics can mix
October
Antarctic ice sheets face catastrophic collapse without deep emissions cuts
Marine food chains at risk of collapse, extensive study of world’s oceans finds
September
The ACT Is a Beacon of Hope in Tony Abbott’s Sea of Despair
The Climate Post: World on Path to Miss 2C Target
Sawmill owners fear Pilliga forest in NSW being destroyed by timber contract pressures
Australia’s treaty-making process is broken. The China free trade deal is a case in point
Climate Change Authority chair Bernie Fraser resigns
August
Tiffany Taylor was let down too many times
Coal mining sector running out of time, says Citigroup
What motivates CEOs to solve the world’s big social and environmental problems?
NSW MP’s campaign to stop Australia’s kangaroo meat trade with China ‘irresponsible’
June
Climate change a security risk second only to terrorism, says defence report
Adani’s Carmichael Mine is unbankable says Queensland Treasury
TPP: Time for Abbott to rethink this ‘preferential’ and ‘dangerous’ agreement
Eight things we learned from the pope’s climate change encyclical
Why we fight for the living world: it’s about love, and it’s time we said so
US navy could create thriving biofuel hub in Queensland, Palaszczuk says
Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate
Community legal centres fear being silenced by ‘gag clause’ in new Government agreement
Adani a dud candidate for government support
NSW poles and wires privatisation ignores the technology revolution
Is any bank dumb enough to fund the Galilee Basin coalapolooza?
May
27 May, The Guardian Is any bank dumb enough to fund the Galilee Basin coalapolooza
26 May, The Guardian, Many $$ benefits of PV solar in our economy
22 May, ABC News, Solar energy storage batteries ‘set to transform Australian electricity industry’
20 May, The Guardian, Australia’s banks have 10% loans in risky fossil fuels, says investment adviser
15 May, Renew Economy, Queensland commits to 50% renewable target by 2030
15 May, The Guardian, Adani’s Carmichael mine: damage far outweighs benefits, lawyer claims
14 May, The Guardian, Beekeepers see 42% of US honeybee colonies die off in a single year
13 May, The Guardian, Could this be the world’s most efficient solar electricity system?
April
19 April, ABC News, Concerns growing over dramatic changes in home care set to hit thousands of pensioners, seniors
18 April, ABC News, Budget 2015: Charities forced to cancel, scale back critical international programs after funding cuts
17 April, ABC News, NSW Election 2015: Animal Justice Party wins seat in NSW Upper House
17 April, The Guardian, Abbott government gives $4m to help climate contrarian set up Australian centre
15 April, ABC News, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki backs away from ‘flawed’, ‘political’ Intergenerational Report
14 April, ABC News, Stephanie Scott: High-profile murder case sparks renewed calls for Australia to confront ‘epidemic’ of violence against women
8 April, The Guardian, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water review
8 April, ABC News, Lane Bryant Takes Aim at Victoria’s Secret in New Campaign
5 April, The Guardian, Indonesia winning battle to save world’s richest reef system
7 April, The Sydney Morning Herald, Energy company’s $11 billion transfer to Singapore rings tax avoidance alarm bells
March
31 March, The Guardian, The ‘worthwhile ideas’ in Hockey’s Re:think on tax are straight out of 1975
27 March, ABC News, Scrunchies saving wildlife from being killed by cats: study
22 March, The Guardian, The ten worst environment decisions in Abbott’s first year
20 March, The Guardian, Revealed: Gates Foundation’s $1.4bn in fossil fuel investments
19 March, The Guardian, Australia urged to shut coal-fired power plants urgently as analysis reveals huge emissions
17 March, The Guardian, Barnaby Joyce accused of pushing Leadbeater’s possum towards extinction
17 March, ABC News, Uni deregulation: ideological motives laid bare for around the web
16 March, Sky News, Doctors group seeks climate change action
16 March, RTCC, James Hansen: 2C temperature rise would be disastrous
13 March, The Guardian, Slime tourism on the Great Barrier Reef: our future thanks to QLD’s government
11 March, ABC News, How the State Government’s plan to lease the poles and wires affects rural New South Wales
7 March, The Guardian, Central America’s tiny states caught in deadly crossfire of battle with cartels
6 March, The Guardian, Archaeologists find two lost cities deep in Honduras jungle
6 March, ABC News, Intergenerational Report fails us on climate risks
5 March, The Guardian, Return to Cuba or die: healthcare ended this refugee’s American Dream
4 March, The Sydney Morning Herald – Abbott government approves sweeping Australia Post changes, price rises
2 March, The Guardian – A search for identity draws jihadis to the horrors of Isis
2 March, The Guardian – Wickr: the secret messaging app of the party unfaithful? Metadata story for around the web
February
18 February, The Guardian – What is this dog thinking? Scientists now have some fascinating answers
18 February, The Guardian – Nobel laureate asks Australia to follow UK example on bipartisan climate deal
11 February, The Guardian – Queensland Labor fears election stalemate will jeopardise Great Barrier Reef status
10 February, The Guardian – Remember, Abbott is the product of the Liberals’ freak-out over climate
2014
December
14 December, The Guardian – World set for climate disaster, say activists, as Lima talks falter
10 December, Brisbane Times – Australia adrift: Lost decade beckons as good fortune wanes
10 December, The Age – Abbott’s GP co-payments aren’t dead: it’s a tweak not a termination
9 December, The Guardian – GP co-payment change brings a Hobson’s choice that still undermines bulk-billing
7 December, The Guardian – You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
6 December, The Guardian – Gods and faith versus Coal in name of climate change
1 December, The Guardian – Wallaby David Pocock arrested in coal protest
November
28 November, The Guardian – Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, Lassie and Tony Blair: here to save the world
26 November, The Guardian – Forget the Thermomix – your kitchen appliances have secret powers
25 November, The Guardian – Victorian Labor pledges separate state emissions reduction target
24 November, Sydney Morning Herald – Health and hospitals top list of issues that will influence voters
21 November, Sydney Morning Herald – Great Barrier Reef will be ‘slaughter
20 November, Sydney Morning Herald – ABC, climate change: the Coalition is drowning us in nonsense
20 November, Brisbane Times – UK Tories slam Tony Abbott on climate policy
13 November, The Guardian – Even if Labor wins the Victorian election, it will be trapped by its own mythology about the Greens
