In the weekly column where we air an ill-thought out hot take, Sam Randle lets loose!

The blueprint for a community-led festival already exists in the way Splendour patrons interact with each other. Perhaps it’s time we wave goodbye to the profit-minded model of Australian festivals, and move towards one which cares for the people who attend them. And, more urgently, one which cares for the land they inhabit.

The proper response to the watershed Sharma v Minister for the Environment case, and imagining climate litigation in Australia as a tool for justice.

As the Lismore floodwaters recede, a community is redefining education.

Fiction can help us navigate and alter our threatened future.

To respond to the increasing frequency and severity of climate-related events, Sydney will need to undergo a serious transformation.

Protestors demanded immediate action from the government at the Global Climate Strike on Friday.

The Climate Strikes are back and more important than ever. But what’s a just transition and why should renewables be publicly-owned?

Record breaking rainfall has devastated major towns along Australia’s east coast, in a "one-in-a-one thousand-year event".

To make sense of the world we need statistics; to make sense of statistics we need statistical literacy.