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Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose

Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this planet. I’ve chooses the bigger one. This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. That’s not a throwaway line from a pundit. It is a blunt forecast from one of the world’s most influential

Gregory Andrews

Dec 20, 20253 min read

Canberra's Tiny Earless Reptile that Lives In Wolf-Spider Burrows

This week's #FloraAndFaunaFriday favourite I first met the Grassland Earless Dragon on Ngunnawal Country in 2015 when I was Australia’s Threatened Species Commissioner. It sat like a tiny sculpture in my palm - calm, perfect, impossibly delicate - and then vanished down into a wolf-spider burrow. That’s home for these dragons: they borrow the architecture of invertebrates, living and sheltering in spider and insect tunnels across natural temperate grasslands. And true to the

Gregory Andrews

Dec 19, 20252 min read

Bondi: Australia's Choice To Lead Again On Gun Control

Immediately after Bondi, a familiar chorus started to arrive from the United States: “See? Your gun laws didn’t stop it.” The insinuation was that more guns would have somehow prevented the terror. It’s a strange thing to watch people from a country that has normalised gun death as a daily feature of public life try to lecture Australians about what works. In the US, close to 50,000 people die from guns each year. That's about 14 deaths per 100,000 people. Australia’s rate is

Gregory Andrews

Dec 16, 20254 min read

Bondi: Australians Must Choose Each Other - Not Hate and Guns

Bondi has been attacked, and people are dead because of hatred enabled with guns. This wasn't random violence; it was a targeted assault on Jewish Aussies gathered to celebrate Hanukkah. Grief and anger are natural responses. But we should be clear-eyed about what this moment demands of us: solidarity with the Jewish community, of course. But also an unflinching refusal to let anyone turn tragedy into a fresh excuse for division, denigration of others or access to more guns.

Gregory Andrews

Dec 15, 20253 min read

Travel Rorts Feed Trump-Style Politics

In my first election I voted Labor after asking my mum who to vote for. After that, for most of my adult life, I voted Greens and preferenced Labor. Not because they were perfect, but because they were the best of a bad bunch. But then credible independents came along - David Pocock in my electorate. I shifted again, not because I became less progressive, but because I had long stopped trusting the machine. The latest travel-rorts scandal has just confirmed why. We now know t

Gregory Andrews

Dec 12, 20253 min read

"Recyclable" Doesn't Mean "Recycled"

The comforting story we tell ourselves - and the landfill reality How often do you hear “but it’s recyclable”?. I hear it in supermarkets, road-side service centres and worksites. Someone holds up a plastic cup or bottle, taps the little triangle, and presents it like a diplomatic passport: This item may pass without further question. Now don’t get me wrong - I’m not saying “stop using your recycling bin”. Keep recycling what you can. I’m saying we’ve been sold a comforting s

Gregory Andrews

Dec 10, 20252 min read

The Flags Look Great. The Strategy Doesn’t.

Australia is still mistaking deference for defence in the Trump Regime era. There’s a theatre to Washington: podiums, flags, solemn faces, and a set of photos meant to tell the public, “Relax, grown-ups are in charge.” Australia shows subservience to the United States, says the right things, and reassures itself that closeness equals safety. Which brings us to Penny Wong and Richard Marles in Washington this week, doing the familiar circuit: meetings, handshakes, statements o

Gregory Andrews

Dec 9, 20253 min read

Emergency Photos Ops Aren't Climate Leadership

It’s the first week of summer (December 2025) and we’re already living the script: dangerous heat, fires ripping through communities, homes destroyed, evacuations, and governments activating disaster assistance. PM Anthony Albanese is already out there posting photos spruiking government support. Yes, recovery support matters. People need immediate help, and they deserve it. But here’s the brutal truth: recovery cheques won't stop the next fire. Prevention will. And that mean

Gregory Andrews

Dec 7, 20252 min read

Australia: A 'Click and Collect' Weapons Warehouse for Israel

Let’s start with the Albanese government’s favourite comforting phrase: “non-lethal parts.” Penny Wong uses it to argue that Australia’s role in the F-35 fight jet program doesn’t make us responsible for what happens in Gaza. Well, it gets worse. Because it turns out we’re not just a supplier - we’re a 'click and collect' weapons warehouse. Declassified Australia has uncovered how the government's own shipping records show F-35 parts are regularly flown from Australia to I

Gregory Andrews

Dec 5, 20253 min read

Despite the So-called “Ceasefire”, Israel’s Genocide in Palestine Continues

Ceasefires are supposed to mean an end to violence. Not “less news coverage”. Not “fewer videos on your feed”. Not “a slightly slower rate of death that we learn to tolerate”. Almost two months ago, the world was told a deal had been reached: the bombs would stop dropping, the guns would fall silent, hostages would come home, Gaza would breathe again. But a ceasefire that still permits daily lethal force isn’t peace - it is a managed continuation of atrocity. Palestinians are

Gregory Andrews

Dec 1, 20253 min read

Competing with Kim Kardashian: Golden Bandicoots for #BlackFriday

It’s #FloraAndFaunaFriday but also #BlackFriday, another day of marketing gimmickry when the algorithms shout louder than our wildlife. Today, Australia will spend millions chasing celebrity perfumes and cut-price jewellery. Meanwhile, the living things that actually define us - our native plants and animals - are slipping further and further from view. Back in 2014 on Matuwa Country in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia, I was lucky enough to hold this Golden Bandicoot.

Gregory Andrews

Nov 28, 20252 min read

Fixing Corporate Capture and Climate Change

The Fossil Fuel Industry had 1,600 official delegates at COP30 in Brazil When I first saw that number, I had to read it twice. More than 1,600 fossil fuel industry delegates had official access at COP30 in Belém, Brazil - the UN climate talks held on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. This was the conference that was meant to deliver on the Paris Agreement at its ten-year mark. No wonder it failed . The corridors were crowded with people whose livelihoods depend on extracting

Gregory Andrews

Nov 25, 20253 min read

COP30 in the Amazon Proved the Paris Agreement is Failing Us

Despite being held in the Amazon rainforest, the world's latest climate summit still couldn't agree to phase out fossil fuels. If that doesn't tell us the Paris Agreement is failing, I’m not sure what will. At COP30 in Belém, negotiators argued well into the night as usual and ended up with what's being spun as yet another breakthrough: a voluntary deal to begin discussions on a roadmap for an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels. Those three words - voluntary, begin, eventu

Gregory Andrews

Nov 23, 20253 min read

“Always Was, Always Will Be”: What It Really Means for Belonging on This Land

Somewhere between Narrabri and Gilgandra, bumping along a dirt back road on my e-bike, I realised just how far I’d travelled without really moving at all. On this #eBike4Australia ride I’ve crossed Ngunnawal, Gundungurra, D’harawal, Dharug, Awabakal, Worimi, Birpai, Bundjalung, Gumbaynggirr, Jagera, Kamilaroi, and Wiradjuri Country - and that’s just the short list. Every day begins with a new horizon line, but it’s also the same old truth under my tyres: I am riding on Aborig

Gregory Andrews

Nov 21, 20253 min read

The Pilliga Doesn't Get to Speak in Parliament

Today I left the trucks of the Newell Highway for 100km or so of back roads through the Pilliga. It was quieter and softer on the nerves. That said, I do want to say up front that the truckies out here have been fantastic – slowing down, giving me space, and looking out for a lone cyclist on an e-bike. Rolling under the eucalypts of the Pilliga, I couldn’t shake two thoughts. The first was fire. Climate change is loading the dice for hotter, drier, more destructive bushfires.

Gregory Andrews

Nov 20, 20252 min read

Abandoning Net Zero Abandons Australia's Farmers

Riding my bike from Goondiwindi down to Narrabri via Moree, I had the Nandewar Range and Mount Kaputar sitting off to my left on the horizon. In front of me were paddocks of early summer crops on rich black soils, stretching as far as I could see. On numerous fence-lines, hand-painted signs from farmers warned about coal seam gas and fracking. Out here, people understand in their bones that their livelihoods depend on healthy Country. But the Liberal and National Parties seem

Gregory Andrews

Nov 19, 20253 min read

Hope Is a Verb: My Take Home from AlterCOP 30

Speaking at AlterCOP 30 Australia was a real privilege. Walking my bike into a space filled with people who had chosen to spend three days thinking, feeling and acting for the climate reminded me that active hope is alive and well. This wasn’t a meeting of passive spectators. It was a community of people hungry to learn, ready to listen, and determined to roll up their sleeves and do the work that this moment in history demands of humanity. What inspired me most was the dive

Gregory Andrews

Nov 18, 20251 min read

If Parliament Lived Like Farmers Do, Net Zero Would Be a No-Brainer

On the back roads between Lismore and Mullumbimby during my #eBike4Australia trip to Brisbane, I stopped beside a farm with a bright yellow sign that said everything Australia needs to hear right now: ROSEBANK GASFIELD FREE ✓ 99% AGREE Behind it stretched some of the most beautiful Country I've seen - macadamia orchards, dairy farms, remnant rainforest, and mountains shaped by ancient lava flows. But while I was standing there taking in the view, the Liberal Party was busy an

Gregory Andrews

Nov 16, 20252 min read

Where Your Blueberries Really Come From

Spoiler alert, it's not from the pretty pictures on the punnet. It's from places like this on Gumbaynggirr Country in the Clarence Valley: a huge old gumtree cut off at the base, one of many sacrifed for endless rows of plastic tunnels. Cycling up the NSW mid-north coast from Nambucca to Grafton I saw the landscape changing in real time. Paddocks, forests and small-scale farms being turned into industrial blueberry estates: steel hoops, white plastic, dams, pumps, chemical sh

Gregory Andrews

Nov 14, 20252 min read

Talking Climate with the Adikaram Familiy

The climate crisis has no borders - and nor should our responsibility Cycling through Coffs Harbour on my #eBike4Australia ride, I met the Adikaram family from Sri Lanka. Senaan, his mum and dad, and his sister were on a road trip along Australia’s east coast. We got talking beside my loaded-up e-bike, the sun hot on the concrete, and within the space of five minutes our conversation turned from travel to the climate crisis. The Adikarams told me of climate impacts back home

Gregory Andrews

Nov 14, 20252 min read