Australia’s clean energy legislation, while increasing costs for Australian consumers and likely to have some impacts on workers, will force large polluters to shift to cleaner technologies, particularly in the energy and transport sectors, writes Jo Coghlan.

With the Greens now in control of the Australian Senate, is the Gillard Government's plans for Internet censorship dead?

Without a realistic population debate and without a set of policies to sustainably support a 30 million plus population, many Australians will start to resist and resent immigration and it won't be able to sustain anything close to a 'green' environment, argues Jo Coghlan.