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Enough Is Enough: Australia Must Stop Enabling Trump’s America

I’ve been writing for more than a year that Australia needs to find new friends. When Trump returned, I argued that America’s democratic decay meant our reliance on Washington was no longer tenable. In January I wrote that so-called “shared values” aren’t proved by rhetoric, and that Pine Gap isn’t symbolic but operational. Everything that’s happened since has only strengthened that case. Donald Trump is no longer merely reckless. He’s unfit for office. But this is not just a

Gregory Andrews

2 days ago3 min read

Illegal War, Illegal Methods

When Trump boasts about destroying bridges, threatens to wipe out power systems, and talks about sending an entire country “back to the Stone Age”, most people don’t need an international law degree to know something’s wrong. Their instincts are sound. International law exists precisely to restrain this kind of conduct: wars launched without lawful justification, and methods of warfare that treat civilian suffering as a tool of strategy. That’s why Trump and Netanyahu’s war a

Gregory Andrews

5 days ago3 min read

Climate change is pushing even common birds towards extinction

For this week’s #FloraAndFaunaFriday, I want to talk about one of Australia’s most beloved little birds: the superb fairy-wren. It’s bright, busy, cheeky, beautiful - and still common enough that most people assume it will always be with us. But that assumption now looks dangerously naïve. New research led by the Australian National University and based on 31 years of intensive monitoring of a population in Canberra, warns that this familiar little bird could become extinct

Gregory Andrews

6 days ago3 min read

What the Iran War Has Taught Us - And What Australia Still Refuses to Learn

One of the first lessons of the Iran war is that modern wars don’t stay “over there” for long. They arrive at your local servo, your supermarket, your freight bill and your household budget long before the government is prepared to speak honestly about what’s happening. And Australia’s learning this the hard way now. When the bombs first started falling, Anthony Albanese rushed to say Australia supported the action - while trying to maintain the usual political fiction that s

Gregory Andrews

7 days ago3 min read

Australia’s Trucking Future is on the Lawns of Parliament House Today

Here’s something Australia needs a lot more of. An electric truck brought to Parliament House by New Energy Transport which, it’s fair to say, is leading the future of freight distribution. The zero emissions Windrose truck is striking not just because of its futuristic looks, but because it points to a future that’s already arriving - and not a moment too soon. This isn’t abstract climate theory. It’s practical economics and energy security. Right now, Australia is being r

Gregory Andrews

Mar 302 min read

Scarce Fuel, Dumb Politics

As a trained economist, I find one part of Australia’s current fuel debate surreal. Fuel supplies are tightening. Service stations are running dry. Governments are talking about supply disruptions, emergency imports and contingencies for essential users. And into that situation comes the predictable LNP popularist cry: cut the fuel excise. Make petrol cheaper. It might be a good political sound bite. But it's not smart economics. When something's in short supply, making it ch

Gregory Andrews

Mar 294 min read

While We Watch Iran, the Planet Keeps Burning

The planet is now more out of balance than at any time in the observational record. That’s not a slogan from activists. It’s the warning of the World Meteorological Organization . Its latest report shows that the last 11 years were all the hottest years ever recorded, that greenhouse gas concentrations are now at their highest in at least 800,000 years, and that Earth’s energy imbalance has reached a record high. Most people hear that and think of hotter days, bigger fires, a

Gregory Andrews

Mar 293 min read

Cats and Australia’s wildlife don't mix

This isn't an easy photo to share. It shows a feral cat killing and eating a brush-tailed phascogale: a tiny carnivorous native Australian marsupial that should be darting through our bush at night, not dying in the jaws of an introduced predator. It's confronting. But I think Australians need to be confronted. Because this is what the feral cat crisis, and the broader roaming-cat crisis, actually looks like. For all their softness, agility and familiarity, cats are one of th

Gregory Andrews

Mar 274 min read

Minister for Women, Meet Noor #SchoolGirlUnderBombs

Today I placed Noor outside the office of Senator Katy Gallagher, the Minister for Finance and Women. That second title matters. Because if there's one group that should never be made abstract, it is women and girls. Yet the language Australia uses when it backs Trump and Israel’s military action in the Middle East is designed to do exactly that: “We support it.” “We’re not involved.” “We can’t comment on the law.” Meanwhile, schoolgirls and other innocent civilians are dying

Gregory Andrews

Mar 262 min read

Noor at David Smith MP’s Office: Accountability Starts Locally

Today I placed Noor outside my local MP’s office, David Smith MP. Noor is #SchoolgirlUnderBombs: a small figure with a single book. She exists because I can't stomach the weasel words Australia uses when it backs Trump and Israel’s military action in the Middle East: “We support it.” “We’re not involved.” “We can’t comment on the law.” Meanwhile, schoolgirls and other innocent civilians are dying under the bombs. A local MP’s office might seem like an odd place to make a poin

Gregory Andrews

Mar 252 min read

Meet Noor: #SchoolGirlUnderBombs

I made Noor because I couldn’t stomach the weasel words Australia uses when it backs Trump and Israel’s military action in the Middle East: “We support it.” “We’re not involved.” “We can’t comment on the law.” Meanwhile, schoolgirls and other innocent civilians are dying under the bombs. And let’s be honest: “support” isn't neutral. It's political cover. It's permission. It's complicity dressed up as diplomacy. Noor is a simple prompt: a schoolgirl with a single book. She cha

Gregory Andrews

Mar 241 min read

Trump lit the match. Now the world's paying the price

Donald Trump launched his war in Iran on 28 February with the usual bluster and strongman swagger. There was the talk of annihilation, ultimatums and overwhelming force. Now less than four weeks later, the region is still burning, thousands of people are dead, the global economy is taking a hit, and ordinary people far from the battlefield are paying the price. Middle Eastern cities are being bombarded. More than 2,000 people have reportedly been killed since the conflict beg

Gregory Andrews

Mar 233 min read

The wrong harvest: what GDP can’t see

My morning harvest today says a lot about what’s wrong with the way Australia measures success. Tomatoes, zucchinis, an aubergine, and a vase full of dahlias from the garden. Fresh food. Beautiful flowers. No plastic wrapping. No long-distance refrigerated transport. No supermarket mark-up. No chemical cocktails sprayed for shelf life and appearance. No money changed hands. No truck delivered it. No barcode was scanned. But according to the dominant measure of economic progre

Gregory Andrews

Mar 223 min read

Have your say on Canberra’s next Climate Strategy: It will be make or break

The ACT Government is inviting submissions on its next Climate Change Strategy which will run out to 2035. Public consultation closes on 18 March 2026. I’ve already lodged a submission because this is one of those moments when a government process like this really matters. Decisions made in this strategy will shape not just how Canberra cuts emissions, but whether it remains a liveable, safe and resilient city in a rapidly changing climate. The ACT has done important things a

Gregory Andrews

Mar 153 min read

The Lesson of the Thylacine

Thylacines once roamed right across Australia. That still surprises many people, because we tend to think of them as the “Tasmanian Tiger” - a strange, striped carnivore from another place and another time. But long before they were confined to Tasmania during the last ice age, Thylacines lived across the mainland too. They evolved and survived here for tens of thousands of years, including alongside First Nations peoples who knew the Thylacine well enough to name it, remembe

Gregory Andrews

Mar 133 min read

The Science Is In: Global Warming Is Accelerating

Something deeply worrying just appeared in the scientific literature. A new paper by respected climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf and colleagues shows that the rate of global warming has significantly accelerated since 2015. After filtering out natural variability from things like El Niño, volcanic eruptions and solar cycles, Rahmstorf and his colleagues found a statistically significant acceleration in warming with over 98 percent certainty. Put simply: the planet is now he

Gregory Andrews

Mar 83 min read

Trump’s war on Iran is another reminder: renewable energy is national security

The first thing I thought when I heard petrol prices were climbing was this: thankfully, that’s not really our problem anymore. That’s not because we’re rich or because inflation doesn’t matter. And it’s certainly not because what Donald Trump has unleashed in and around Iran won’t hurt ordinary Aussies. It will. Oil prices have already spiked, shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been badly disrupted, and petrol prices have spiked by up to 40 cents a litre in some place

Gregory Andrews

Mar 73 min read

Herzog, ASIO, and the Truth Gap

Remember when Anthony Albanese framed Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit as “healing”. That mattered because it asked us to read a highly charged diplomatic moment through the language of grief, solidarity, and community reassurance. It subtly positioned scrutiny as unkind - even suspect. It made Australians lower our guard. It said: “don’t ask questions - this is about comfort, not politics.” But now we’ve learned that Herzog had a private meeting with ASIO. And it wasn’

Gregory Andrews

Mar 42 min read

We Support It, We’re Not Involved, Don’t Us Ask About The Law

There's a particular kind of political sentence that should set off alarm bells: we support the action, but we are not participating. It's the sentence politicians reach for when they want the benefits of a war without accepting the moral and legal responsibility that comes with it. Over the past few days, the Albanese Government has adopted exactly that posture towards the US and Israel’s war against Iran. Prime Minister Albanese’s language has been blunt: support for US act

Gregory Andrews

Mar 23 min read

Bombs Don’t Build Lasting Peace Or Democracy

We keep being sold the same fairy tale: drop enough bombs, topple the “bad regime”, and somehow a better society will bloom from the rubble. It’s an easy story to buy because it promises moral clarity without the hard work of diplomacy, compromise, and long-term engagement. It also flatters leaders like Trump who want to look decisive. But as a strategy for achieving peaceful, lasting regime change and real human rights improvements, aerial bombardment has a very poor record.

Gregory Andrews

Mar 13 min read