Category: The Australian

The northern half of the South China Sea is quickly becoming a Chinese lake, but the south half can be kept open if Australia and its neighbours show a little more resolve.

They may as well rename it the Sydney Strife Prize. Or, more aspirationally, the Sydney Popularity Prize.

Australian democracy under threat? Don’t believe a word of it.

With the full support of many of their teachers, headmasters and principals, children (and recent-but-no-longer children) around the country are being urged to take the day off school to save the planet by “sacrificing our educations to save our futures from dangerous climate change,” as the strike website puts it.

Australians might benefit from listening more, too.