• Reopening the Mitrokhin archive

    Chris Taylor     |      January 27, 2024

    Tuesday 23 January marked 20 years since the passing of a Russian defector whose revelations confirmed the egregious nature of Soviet intelligence operations and global interference during the Cold War.

  • Let’s stop logging for landfill

    Chris Taylor     |      April 24, 2019

    Almost all native forest logging in Victoria is for woodchips, pulp and pallets, which have short lifespans before going to landfill. Using plantation produced wood would help protect native forests and the large amounts of carbon they can store.

  • Logging burns conceal industrial pollution in the name of ‘community safety’

    Chris Taylor     |      May 18, 2018

    Rather than ‘hazard reduction burns’, a large proportion of the smoke which has fouled Melbourne this autumn was produced by the intensive burning of debris left behind after clearfell logging. This is essentially industrial pollution.