I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.