June 2025

In 2030, after years of bleating from the sidelines, a motley mix of the nation’s most fervent idealists finally decided to put their cabbages where their mouths were. Disgusted with Australia’s so-called environmental backsliding—failing to meet its 43% emissions reduction target, failing to build tens of thousands of wind turbines, and failing to become the renewables superpower it promised the world—they did what few middle-class dreamers, equipped with useless Arts degrees and heads full of

In a year when the eastern states have either been drowning under floods or gasping through drought, and here in the west half the state has been left staring at a dry horizon, it seemed timely to stop watching the skies and start digging into the past. Instead of relying on the usual long-range forecasts—which, let’s be honest, have been about as useful as a rain gauge in a sandstorm—I decided to look back at