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Heatwaves are Australia's new normal. And they're going to get worse

Two weeks ago, south-eastern Australia baked through an intense heatwave. And this week, we're doing it again. If that feels like a pattern, it is. We keep talking about heatwaves as if they are unusual events that interrupt “normal” Australian summers. But what we are living through now is the new normal: heat that arrives more often, lasts longer, pushes further south, and loads the dice for catastrophic fires. Let's look at the numbers. In the current heatwave, parts of th

Gregory Andrews

Jan 273 min read

Rabbits, Racism and What’s Really Harming Australia

If Pauline Hanson really cared about Australia, she’d be targeting invasive species not Muslims These are the lawns outside the Australian Academy of Science ’s Shine Dome. Built in the late 1950s to celebrate discovery and curiosity, I always think of it as a giant Jetsons spaceship which has landed right in the middle of Canberra. And right there in front of it: dozens of rabbits. Calmly mowing the grass like it’s their job, like they belong there, like it’s how it’s alway

Gregory Andrews

Jan 252 min read

Science Under Siege

And why saving science is saving democracy The other night I fired off a quick tweet about the Albanese Government allowing CSIRO to shed another 350 scientists and research staff. The comments, forwards and likes went viral because people instinctively understand that this wasn't an obscure staffing matter. Sacking hundreds of scientists in the middle of a climate and extinction crisis is a choice about what sort of country Australia want to be. CSIRO is not a niche agency.

Gregory Andrews

Jan 234 min read

Laws Alone Can't Prevent Hate

Last night, Australia’s parliament passed a new package of laws aimed at combating antisemitism, hate and extremism. The government says it is about protecting communities from intimidation and violence. On its face, that’s a goal any decent person should support. I certainly do. My public life is built on nonviolent, peaceful direct action in defence of climate, Country, and human rights - which is to say, community. I have no patience for racism, nor for antisemitism, nor t

Gregory Andrews

Jan 214 min read

NATO’s mortal wound

Donald Trump has just announced punitive tariffs against Denmark, the UK, France, Germany and a swathe of European allies, explicitly tying their removal to the “complete and total purchase of Greenland” by the United States. He has framed this as a national security imperative, accused allies of endangering global peace, and threatened escalating economic punishment until they comply. If this stands, NATO as we have known it is finished. This isn’t bluster. It’s not theatre

Gregory Andrews

Jan 182 min read

The Strongman and the Slippery Slope: How Close to Fascism is the United States?

I’ve already written about how the US is now a rogue state : “America first” has become “rules last”. That argument was about the Trump Regime's external behaviour: conquest language, coercion, bullying of allies, and contempt for international referees. This one is about internal dynamics. Rogue states abroad often become strongman states at home, because contempt for rules is rarely compartmentalised. Against any serious set of historical and political benchmarks, the Unite

Gregory Andrews

Jan 164 min read

Urgent: Comments on the Hate Speech Bill Close Tomorrow at 4pm!

The Federal Parliament has opened public submissions on the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 . Submissions opened yesterday and close tomorrow at 4pm. In other words, Australians have been given only three days to comment on one of the most complex and far-reaching pieces of legislation in years. That alone should worry all of us. Rushed legislation is almost always poor legislation. It creates unintended consequences, weakens safeguards, produces unfair

Gregory Andrews

Jan 143 min read

Concern and “Stay Safe” Tweets aren’t Climate Policy

As I write this on 11 January 2026, Australia’s in the grip of a brutal heatwave and Victoria is on fire. Houses have been lost, farms destroyed and people are unaccounted for as out-of-control fires rip through communities. Conditions are officially “catastrophic” with temperatures well above 40°C across much of South Australia, Victoria, the ACT and NSW. This isn’t an abstract “extreme weather event”. It’s heat that strains bodies and systems. It’s wind that turns embers in

Gregory Andrews

Jan 113 min read

Cancel Your US World Cup and Olympics Tickets Now

The United States is about to host two of the world’s biggest sporting events: the 2026 Men’s World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Normally, that would be a celebration. Sport can be an expresssion of our shared humanity, a reason to travel, connect, and feel part of something bigger than politics. But we’re not in normal times. Under the Trump Regime , the United States is behaving in ways that make the world less safe, and mega-events like the World Cup and Olympics

Gregory Andrews

Jan 103 min read

Greenland, Pine Gap, and the Moment Australia Must Choose

It is a sign of how far things have slid that US allies and members of NATO now feel the need to issue statements that amount to: do not invade us. Yet that is exactly where Europe has landed over Greenland, with leaders publicly have felt the need to issue a statement reaffirming that Greenland belongs to its people and that only Greenland and Denmark can decide its future. In any sane world, this would be unthinkable. In today’s world, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiks

Gregory Andrews

Jan 73 min read

America First, Rules Last: The US is Now a Rogue State

“Rogue state” has long been a label applied by the United States to its enemies. It’s been aimed at governments that ignore international law, threaten their neighbours, and treat rules as optional. Think Russia, North Korea, and Afghanistan under the Taliban, etc. Under the Trump Regime, the US now fits its own definition. Not because Americans are “bad”. Not because democracy has vanished overnight. But because the world’s most powerful country is acting as if its power is

Gregory Andrews

Jan 53 min read

Tied to the Titanic: Australia’s US Delusion Is Sinking Fast

The world just watched the most powerful nation on Earth launch a full-scale military attack - without UN Security Council approval, without any domestic legal justification, and with no plausible self-defense claim. Simply because it can. That’s exactly what happened when the United States struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro in a military operation that has drawn condemnation worldwide. It wasn’t a limited strike. It was a major military assault involving

Gregory Andrews

Jan 43 min read

Australia must oppose Israel’s mandatory death penalty proposal for Palestinians

In Australia we abolished the death penalty long ago because justice is meant to restrain vengeance, not legitimise it. Killing is irreversible, courts are fallible, the risk of executing an innocent person is real, and human dignity isn't something government's can switch on and off. And our stance isn't just domestic. It is a principled position we promote internationally through the Government's own strategy , which puts it plainly: "Australia opposes the death penalty in

Gregory Andrews

Jan 32 min read

Why Criticising Israel Isn’t Anti-Semitic

Australians should be able to hold two truths at once: antisemitism is real and rising, and criticism of Israel’s policies and actions isn’t the same thing as hatred of Jewish people. Judaism is a diverse community and identity; Israel is a nation-state with a government, laws, and military actions in Palestine that can and should be scrutinised. If human rights mean anything, they have to apply consistently - no matter whose flag is involved. That includes both Jewish and Pa

Gregory Andrews

Dec 30, 20253 min read

Freedom for Who? Monster Utes Are Stealing Our Streets

I’m not talking about hardworking tradie’s Utes that do real work. I’m talking about the new breed of “monster utes”. Flashy, American-style pickups like this one that are becoming more and more common in our suburbs and cities. They’re marketed as rugged and aspirational. But in our communities - where kids walk to school, older people shuffle to the shops, and cyclists hold their breath at intersections - they’re the opposite. They’re riskier, bulkier, and polluting. And th

Gregory Andrews

Dec 29, 20254 min read

More Than Polar Bears and Penguins: Why Polar Warming Is Everyone’s Problem

Christmas Day in Iceland set a new temperature record of 19.8°C, extraordinarily warm for winter and a marker of how far “normal” has drifted. Of course a single datapoint isn’t, by itself, a climate story. But it’s stark example of what data and science are increasingly documenting. Earth’s poles are no longer behaving like stable cold reservoirs. And the consequences go far beyond the impacts on polar bears and penguins. The NOAA Arctic Report Card for 2025 (yes, Donald Tr

Gregory Andrews

Dec 28, 20253 min read

Trams, Trains & Bikes: Geometry That Cars And Even Busses Can’t Beat

This graphic it tells a simple but important story. It shows what it takes to move a thousand people. One train. A line of buses. Or a small army of cars. Most of us conceptualise transport as being about vehicles. But it’s also very much about space. Cities don’t run out of petrol or electricity first. They run out of room. Footpath space. Lane space. Parking space. Turning lanes. Once you see that, the hierarchy becomes obvious: modes that move the most people with the leas

Gregory Andrews

Dec 26, 20254 min read

What's Degrowth? And Why If We Don't Choose It, Collapse Will Choose Us

I’ve been thinking about a word that can make otherwise reasonable people flinch: degrowth. Say it at a dinner party and you can feel the temperature change. Someone will hear “recession”. Someone else will hear “austerity”. Another will think you mean “hair shirts and cold showers”. A politician will hear “career-ending”. But degrowth is none of those things. As heart, it's a simple proposition: you can’t grow the human economy’s physical footprint forever on a finite planet

Gregory Andrews

Dec 23, 20254 min read

Yeah But… It Was Cold Yesterday

Yeah, but it was cold yesterday. It snowed. I had to scrape ice off my windscreen. Explain that , climate man! This one turns up in comments on my socials often, usually accompanied by a smirk and a photo of snow falling somewhere. And every time it does, it reveals the same basic mistake that climate change delialists make: conflating weather with climate, and then pretending that it's a clever rebuttal. So let’s deal with it. Weather is what happens today, this week, or thi

Gregory Andrews

Dec 22, 20253 min read

EVs At The Tipping Point: Why You Don’t Want To Be A Late Adopter

These graphs tell an important story. On the left is how horses disappeared from cities once cars took off. On the right is the same kind of substitution curve - petrol and diesel powered cars giving way to EVs. Horses didn’t fade gently; they were replaced rapidly. And internal combustion engines aren't “phasing down” with polite applause either. They’re already being substituted - and the steep part of the curve is the part we’re entering. A new paper from the Centre for Ne

Gregory Andrews

Dec 21, 20253 min read