Guess which politician said this: “I think immigration levels should settle down much lower than they are at the moment...”

We hear time and again in the media that Iran cannot be trusted to refine uranium. Recent studies indicate that it’s at least as dangerous to let Australian companies mine the uranium in the first place.

The Liberal Party has been taken over by a bunch of conspiracy theorists and global warming deniers. Yet the Labor government's emissions trading scheme is a fraud, which will only reward big business.

The Copenhagen summit looks set to squeeze developing countries by shifting the costs of moving to a low-carbon future disproportionately onto the countries of the Global South.

Governments of the world are preparing to meet in Copenhagen for the final time before the current Kyoto treaty expires. A momentous historical occasion? Tragically, it is widely expected to be a complete shambles.

In September, the population of Australia cleared 22 million, prompting a debate over immigration, and the supposed devastation it wreaks on the environment.

The tide has definitively turned against the government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). A year ago, many believed Rudd was sincere about tackling climate change, and thought the proposed carbon trading scheme was a step in the right direction.

In whatever the currency business profit is delivered, it certainly does make the ruling class's world go round. And there's no shortage of new "green" ways of making millions.

Last year I walked in Sumatran rainforests. It was a delight, and yet ... there were almost no birds, because people take the eggs to scratch a living. Illegal logging is chronic, and before being exported to the west, the logs travel to a plywood factory south of the provincial capital of Padang.

The Stern Review created a dramatic shift in the debate over global warming. Every prominent capitalist now wants to promote their green credentials, with Rupert Murdoch leading the way by making his media empire carbon-neutral - and he received warm congratulations from the Greens for his profitable efforts.