Carn Tassie, you can doooo eeeeeet! | No seriously, things are going just fine in Tasmania’s new parliament. Unbelievably, the composition of Tasmania’s new government presents more opportunities than challenges — if the major parties are willing to take them.

Editorial | Beet-red selfishness

The science behind plastic recycling and why it needs a rethink. Plastic recycling is failing not just because of consumer habits, but also due to thermodynamic, chemical, and engineering constraints.

How a decade of Coalition bullshit on climate gave us our ‘bog standard’. Presenting a decade of Coalition sound and fury on climate action.

Jack Waterford | If these climate extremists win, the Coalition can forget about getting into power ever again

Australia’s protester crackdown didn’t start with Hannah Thomas — and it won’t end with her. The injuries sustained by the former Greens candidate are just the latest event in Australia’s crackdown on the right to protest.

Rachel Withers | Whither the Greens in the wake of the Cox defection? Many voters still approve of the party’s approach, but it’s been a dispiriting few years for the Greens. Where next?

The spiralling death of Australian opposition. Part 2: The consequences. Crikey’s series on how the opposition parties of Australia have decayed so drastically continues.

Jenna Price | Too many of us are not as lucky as me. And that's extremely risky

The spiralling death of Australian opposition. Part 1: How it happens

‘Someone will get hurt’: Zoe Daniel feared for her safety in toxic election campaign

Mark Kenny | Americans might have ceded government to corrupt oligarchs, but not Australians