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I write about climate, human rights, biodiversity, and uncomfortable truths. From the wisdom of First Nations caring for Country to the global action needed to protect ecosystems and ensure intergenerational equity, these stories are personal, political, and urgent. They aim to inspire hope.

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The Carbon Capture Con: Why CCS is a Fraud

Carbon capture and storage sounded seductive right? Keep the coal mines. Keep the gas fields. Keep the LNG export terminals. Keep the profits. Keep the political donations. Then bolt on a giant industrial vacuum cleaner and bury the pollution somewhere underground. That was the promise. The problem is that the promise hasn’t survived contact with reality. A new investigation has sharpened what climate advocates have known for years: carbon capture and storage, or CCS, has bee

Gregory Andrews

1 day ago5 min read

Labor’s Gambling Ad Ban Is a Joke

If you’ve been watching the Socceroos in the World Cup on SBS expecting to see football like me, you’ll know what I’m talking about. A barrage of gambling ads! According to analysis from the ABC, more than one in every three ads during SBS’s Socceroos coverage promoted online gambling. That’s on an Australian taxpayer-funded national broadcaster, and after the Albanese Government proudly announced its long-awaited gambling advertising reforms! If this is what a crackdown look

Gregory Andrews

4 days ago4 min read

Beginning of the End for Fossil-Fuelled Cars

Good climate news can feel rare. But this week, we got some. According to new analysis reported by The Driven, the number of vehicles registered in NSW with an internal combustion engine peaked on 27 February 2026 at 6,309,403. And now its declining. That includes petrol and diesel cars, vans, trucks, buses, motorcycles, hybrids and plug-in hybrids. This matters. Because for the first time, new EVs are not merely adding to the total number of cars on the road, they’re beginni

Gregory Andrews

5 days ago2 min read

Ignoring the Warning Light

Imagine you’re driving down the highway. Your engine temperature gauge creeps up into the red. The next day again. Then the next. Twenty-eight days in a row. Would you ignore the gauge or accuse it of alarmism? Would you insist it was exaggerating? Or would stop and you ask the obvious question: Why is my engine getting hotter and what can I do to fix it? Earth’s oceans are our temperature gauge. More than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases ends up in the ocea

Gregory Andrews

6 days ago2 min read

Left and Right are last Century’s Paradigm

Climate, Country, human rights and accountability are too important to be trapped in old ideological boxes. One of the great distractions of our time is the idea that every serious issue must be forced into a left-wing or right-wing box. Climate change becomes “left wing”. Human rights become “left wing”. Accountability becomes “right wing”. Welfare reform becomes “right wing”. Caring for Country becomes “left wing”. Public safety becomes “right wing”. Opposing genocide becom

Gregory Andrews

Jul 15 min read

Australia’s Flagship Climate Policy Is Failing to Cut Emissions

Australia’s biggest industrial polluters are supposed to be reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. That is the purpose of the Safeguard Mechanism, the federal government’s flagship policy for cutting emissions from large industrial facilities. On paper, it sounds like a sensible approach. The country’s largest emitters are each given an emissions limit, and those limits become progressively tighter over time. The expectation is that companies invest in cleaner technologies

Gregory Andrews

Jun 283 min read

When France Is Hotter Than the Sahara, It's Everyone’s Warning.

France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert. France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks. The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places beha

Gregory Andrews

Jun 274 min read

Nature Doesn’t Do Monocultures

If Australia had a bird that embodied our national identity, it could belong to the Purple-crowned Fairy-wren. Tiny. Bold. Confident. Sporting a spectacular splash of purple that wouldn’t look out of place at an Australian music festival or on a TAFE or university campus. It’s all sass. And thank goodness it doesn’t believe Australia should be monochrome. Nature’s always known that diversity is something to celebrate. Perhaps I’m a little biased. I first met Purple-crowned Fa

Gregory Andrews

Jun 262 min read

Forgetting Abundance

Many Australians are noticing it, even if they haven’t quite put their finger on it. There seem to be fewer birds around - especially smaller ones. The dawn chorus is quieter. Windscreens collect fewer insects than they once did. Fairy-wrens and flycatchers seem less common. You might assume this is simply nostalgia. But unfortunately, the science increasingly suggests otherwise. A new Canadian study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences just found

Gregory Andrews

Jun 253 min read

Listening on Country: Cultural Capability Beyond the Script

There's a moment that happens sometimes in our work at Lyrebird Dreaming, and it always stops me in my tracks. It’s not when someone delivers a polished Acknowledgement of Country. Or when a strategy gets approved. It’s when a group of Australians sit down on Country in a circle and something shifts - from “we’re here to be seen doing the right thing” to “we’re here to listen, learn, and improve how we live and work”. That’s what this photo captures. A clear winter sky. A wid

Gregory Andrews

Jun 243 min read

Why We Chose Gaza And How You Can Too

Why our family is supporting culture, hope and healing through theatre and the arts in Gaza. Each year my family choses to make a significant annual investment in a charity that's doing good for humanity and/or the environment. This year we've chosen to invest $5,000 to support young people in Gaza through a partnership between the Basma Society for Culture and Arts and Australia's Indigo Foundation. There are no shortage of worthy causes in the world. Here at home, people st

Gregory Andrews

Jun 233 min read

Five Things We Can We Do To Stop Fascism

The rise of far-right authoritarianism around the world can feel overwhelming. And we’re seeing it here in Australia. Every day seems to bring another attack on democratic institutions, another culture war, another outrage designed to make us angry, frightened or exhausted. It is easy to feel powerless. Easy to believe that nothing we do matters. History suggests otherwise. One of the most important lessons from the history of fascism is that democracies are rarely destroyed

Gregory Andrews

Jun 203 min read

#FloraAndFaunaFriday: Termites

When most people hear the word termite, they think of house damage, pest controllers and poison. But termites are some of the hardest-working animals on the Australian continent. They break down dead wood, recycle nutrients back into the soil, improve water infiltration, create habitat and food for countless other species and help reduce fuel loads that can feed bushfires. In many parts of Australia, termites process more dead plant material than any other animal group. Austr

Gregory Andrews

Jun 191 min read

El Niño Doesn’t Explain Away Global Warming. It Amplifies It.

The Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared an El Niño, and the ABC is reporting that it could become one of the strongest events in the modern era. The tropical Pacific is warming, the Southern Oscillation Index has plunged, trade winds have weakened, and models are pointing to a very strong event. For once, a climate story is sitting right at the top of the national news. That doesn’t happen often enough, so it is worth paying attention. But it also means we can expe

Gregory Andrews

Jun 173 min read

Abuse Isn’t an Argument

Anyone who raises climate change on social media will be familiar with the endless stream of "Yeah but..." objections that are thrown down like mike drops. "Yeah but ... you're not a climate scientist ... the climate has always changed" etc. Some of these claims are based on misunderstandings. Most are based on mischief and misinformation. Some raise legitimate questions that can be answered with evidence and data. But then there's another category altogether. The people who

Gregory Andrews

Jun 162 min read

The Same Message From Every Direction

Yesterday I wrote about Australia’s extraordinarily warm start to winter. The response was strong, perhaps because readers could see the evidence for themselves. Ski fields opening with little or no snow. Temperatures feel more like autumn or spring than winter. People are noticing that something seems off. Some readers described what they’re observing as “spooky”. Many shared observations from their own backyards. Several people reported spring flowers already blooming. In m

Gregory Andrews

Jun 153 min read

Winter’s Here, The Snowfields Are Open, But There’s No Snow

Winter has arrived in Australia. At least, according to the calendar. The ski fields are open. The chairlifts are running. But even with the snow machines, there’s little or no snow to be seen. Warmth and rain have melted what little snow did fall, and the ski runs are mostly grass and mud. At the same time, much of Australia has experienced its warmest start to winter on record. Sydney is on track for its warmest start to winter since records began in 1859. Melbourne and Can

Gregory Andrews

Jun 143 min read

Worried About Climate Collapse? Here’s Ten Things You Can Actually Do

Someone asked a really good question on one of my posts recently. They said they loved the climate content but wondered what they can actually do. And honestly, that question matters. Because one of the worst things about climate collapse is the feeling of powerlessness. We watch governments approve new coal and gas. We watch billionaires and huge companies greenwash their way through everything. We watch floods, fires, heatwaves, bleaching, crop failures and insurance crises

Gregory Andrews

Jun 135 min read

#FloraAndFaunaFriday: The Spotted Gum That Refuses to Follow the Rules

Last weekend on a rocky headland in Murramarang National Park, surrounded by towering spotted gums, I came across this remarkable tree. At first glance, it looked like several trees growing together. But it is almost certainly a single spotted gum. Instead of producing one tall, straight trunk like most of its neighbours, it has grown multiple stems from its base, creating what ecologists call a multi-stemmed growth form. In some ways, it resembles a mallee, even though spott

Gregory Andrews

Jun 122 min read

While We Look Away, Antarctica is Melting

If you want a metaphor for our times, you could hardly do better than Antarctica in June 2026. While Pauline Hanson argues about migration and pronouns flags, and everyone gets whipped up into culture wars and social media outrage, Antarctica is experiencing temperatures that should be unimaginable . Scientists are recording temperatures at some stations above 15°C during the Antarctic winter - when its supposed to be freezing! In some locations, temperatures are 20°C above n

Gregory Andrews

Jun 112 min read