Paddy Manning

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Paddy Manning

The loss of Adam Bandt’s seat of Melbourne is a disaster for the Greens, but not for the reasons you might think. In his 15 years in parliament, Bandt showed how the Greens could break into the House of Representatives, and that achievement in itself distinguished the party from forerunners the Democrats.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Paddy Manning

In 2020, in the wake of Australia’s Black Summer bushfires, Paddy Manning wrote Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us (Simon & Schuster, 2020). He spoke with the families and friends of victims of extreme weather events and told the human stories behind the statistics. In this Next Chapter, Manning looks at why the death toll attributed to climate change continues to be systemically underreported as well as the consequences of that disconnect.

2 months ago | tasmanianinquirer.com.au | Paddy Manning

Jacqui Lambie, at the wheel of a Toyota Prado with her name and face plastered across it, picks me up in Hobart at 7.30am sharp. On the drive out of town, the Tasmanian senator says she is “running on empty” after a 10-year political stint in which she hasn't taken a holiday for longer than two weeks. Another long day looms, but Lambie will spend much of it doing what she loves: meeting with people, face-to-face and unhurried. It's rewarding, though exhausting, work. But she sees change ahead.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Paddy Manning

Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has called on Tasmania’s salmon industry to stop farming in Macquarie Harbour on the state’s remote west coast, marking a dramatic intervention into a polarised debate with implications for the federal election. “Macquarie Harbour has been a very hot, hot spud when it comes to the salmon industry for many, many years,” Senator Lambie told the Tasmanian Inquirer, “and it’s getting worse.”Lambie said the solution was to remove the fish farms entirely.

2 months ago | tasmanianinquirer.com.au | Paddy Manning

Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has called on Tasmania’s salmon industry to quit farming in Macquarie Harbour on the state’s remote west coast, marking a dramatic intervention into a polarised debate with implications for the looming federal election.