The fierce debate over the role of fuel-reduction burning in preventing bushfires has exposed a deep divide in Australia over attitudes to the natural environment, writes Clive Hamilton.
Culture war
Don’t blame the greenies, blame the lack of bunkers
The flames of culture wars are burning fiercely over Black Saturday, writes Ben Sandilands.
Peter Howson, minister for ‘trees, boongs and poofters’
Howson lost his seat in 1972 and left Canberra unmourned and unmissed. But some 30 years later, the culture-history wars saw him resurrected by Quadrant, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Rundle: With Howard, the culture wars are over
Rats leaving a sinking ship is one thing - but when the rats in question are also the crew something real weird is going on, writes Guy Rundle.
