The government is fighting to keep secret draft versions of its strategy for helping the Pacific deal with climate change, prompting concerns it may be hiding changes that weakened the final report.
A sense of futility haunts us all, so I sought to distill in as few words as possible what could be done by us as a people. Writing them, I felt my despair lift.
Australia's regional authority and influence is being eroded by its refusal to addressthe threat climate change poses to many of its Pacific neighbors, according to a pre-eminent climate scientist.
