June 9, 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