Articles by Clive Hamilton

The protesters who expect to be arrested this weekend in the campaign to close down Hazelwood power station may break the law, but they have justice on their side.

It’s forty years since Woodstock and the Summer of Love of ‘69. It’s little wonder that Gen Xers and Gen Ys take a jaundiced view of Woodstock nostalgia.

A new confident report by the Office of National Assessments warns if humans must wait for their eyes to confirm the predictions of scientists, it will be far too late to do anything about it.

Rio Tinto is a company renowned for playing hard-ball in its commercial operations around the world.

If the Copenhagen agreement on climate change fails to reflect the science, there will be no second chances for the planet and we can expect a furious spasm of protest across the globe.

Based on the best case scenarios when it comes to the full implementation of clean coal technology — let’s look at what the G8 leaders are applauding.

When at some point poor countries take on emission reduction obligations their low-hanging fruit will have been harvested by our big polluters, leaving poor countries with more expensive options.

The uncovering of hard evidence that David Jones set out to sexualise children in its advertising makes monkeys out of the small band of media academics who leapt to the defence of the retailer.

Australia is as dependent on coal as General Motors was on the gas-guzzling SUV. Will we learn from their example and do away with this relic of the old industrial revolution? asks Ben McNeil.

Now we know why David Jones and Saatchi & Saatchi fought so hard to keep the information about the Alison Ashley campaign secret.

Within the bounds of normal politics a 17% cut is as much as one could hope for. But the scientific warnings have taken us beyond normal politics.

The Rumsfeld memos are extraordinary, but there is another, perhaps more alarming, story about Bush’s Christian fundamentalism and the Iraq War that has yet to come to light.

There’s no solution to the abortion debate; there are only ways of trying to take the heat out of the debate.