As climate disaster looms, Malcolm Turnbull needs to stop appeasing and start leading

Hazelwood’s closure should force both federal and state governments to acknowledge the future is here already

As the Chicago Cubs finally won the baseball World Series, Twitter was awash with comments on things that had happened since 1908 – the last time the Cubs won. For example, since then there had been two world wars, the beginning and end of the Soviet Union and media had moved from a time when baseball wasn’t even broadcast on radio to when you could watch the game in HD on your phone on the other side of the world.

And also, in the time since, the planet has warmed by around 1.5C.

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