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2 weeks ago | 
bruegel.org | Marie Jugé |Ugnė Keliauskaitė |Kate Larsen |Ben McWilliams
As the world moves beyond fossil fuels, clean technologies will shape new economic and energy systems. To assess the relative positions of the United States and European Union, we must evaluate both deployment and manufacturing. The EU leads the US on deployment, being home to more wind turbines, solar panels, hydrogen electrolysers, batteries and electric vehicles. Meanwhile, China has deployed more than the combined sum of the EU and US.
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3 weeks ago | 
bruegel.org | Simone Tagliapietra |Marie Jugé |Ugnė Keliauskaitė |Kate Larsen
In this episode of the Sound of Economics, we look at the present and future efforts of the defence sector to integrate climate sustainability. Host Rebecca Christie is joined by Bruegel's Simone Tagliapietra and Kädi Ristkok, Executive Director of Cleantech for Baltics. Together, they explore the challenges and practical steps to decarbonise defence. What are the key policy actions needed at the European level? Relevant research:Ristkok, K. and L.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
overland.org.au | David Pledger |Micaela Sahhar |Kate Larsen
Later today, Creative Australia’s CEO, Adrian Collette, will appear before a Senate Estimates hearing in which he can expect to be grilled on rescinding the appointment of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s representatives at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Let’s hope he doesn’t refuse to answer questions citing the external review of the selection process announced last week. It would help avoid the fate suffered by predecessor, Tony Grybowski.
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
overland.org.au | Micaela Sahhar |Kate Larsen |Daz Chandler
For five days, the Australian representative to the 2026 Venice Biennale was to be the first ever Arab-Australian artist selected for this honour. The decision to showcase Khaled Sabsabi’s work at this prestigious international art festival was brought to Parliamentary Question Time on February 13, 2025.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Neil Vallelly |Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen
The standard refrain about Israel is that “it is the only democracy in the Middle East”. Some stand by this claim; others reject it. Many argue that Benjamin Netanyahu has been eroding democratic values in Israel over the last decade; others insist that so-called Israeli democracy is premised on the oppression and killing of Palestinians, which thus undermines the universalist principles of liberal democracy.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen |Alda Balthrop-Lewis
It has been a turbulent time for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. At a solo recital programmed by MSO on August 11, pianist Jayson Gillham introduced his premiere of Connor D’Netto’s Witness, a work dedicated to the journalists of Gaza, by saying:Over the last 10 months, Israel has killed more than one hundred Palestinian journalists. A number of these have been targeted assassinations of prominent journalists as they were travelling in marked press vehicles or wearing their press jackets.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Kate Larsen |Alda Balthrop-Lewis |Jordy Silverstein
As artists, cultural workers and arts organisations, ours is the business of statement-making. I was reminded of this recently by the work of Portuguese artist Tiago Casanova, whose installation Every wall is a Statement is currently part of the A liberdade e só a Liberdade exhibition (‘Freedom and only freedom’) at The Art and Culture Center of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation in Évora.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
artshub.co.uk | Kate Larsen
We live in polycrisis times. In post Voice referendum “Australia”. In the midst of visible local and international legal and human rights abuses. In a decimated sector impacted by an ongoing pandemic, cost of living, climate and mental health crises, and more. All of which have raised awareness of and reduced tolerance for things we’ve always known. Things we’ve articulated and have been trying to change – if incrementally – through endless research papers, consultations and planning days.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Kate Larsen
We live in polycrisis times. In post Voice referendum “Australia”. In the midst of visible local and international legal and human rights abuses. In a decimated sector impacted by an ongoing pandemic, cost of living, climate and mental health crises, and more. All of which have raised awareness of and reduced tolerance for things we’ve always known. Things we’ve articulated and have been trying to change – if incrementally – through endless research papers, consultations and planning days.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
rhg.com | Kate Larsen |Hannah Pitt |Mahmoud Mobir |Shweta Movalia
Eight years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the international community will gather at COP28 in Dubai and conclude the first Global Stocktake to gauge progress in limiting global temperature increases to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The need to understand what kind of climate future the world is on track for has become increasingly important not just for diplomats and policymakers, but to almost every actor of the global economy.
