29 single mothers, made homeless by the UK's crush-the-poor policies and threatened with being sent 200 miles away, have occupied a boarded-up building in their town.

Queensland is returning 20,000 square km of land to aboriginal traditional owners.

Europeans took the land of Australia from the aboriginal peoples, and it is right to give some of it back.

However, I do not approve of the aboriginal culture's idea that major aspects of that culture, its laws in effect, should be the property of small groups. Secret law is not law. It does far more harm in Obama's hands, or the Australian government's hands, than in the aboriginal people's hands, because the latter have comparatively little power. It is wrong in principle nonetheless.

Western Australia killed an aboriginal woman by jailing her for unpaid parking tickets and denying her medical care.

Australia's government plans to increase exports of fossil fuels and uranium, effectively aiming to push the rest of the world to cause global heating disaster.

The global economy needs to cut its carbon intensity by 6% per year from now till 2100 to avoid more than 2 degrees of heating.

And that's assuming good luck, that we don't hit an unexpected positive feedback that sends heating shooting ahead.