Can we be confident it isn’t just better sizzle but the same dodgy sausage?

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Ian Lowe.

any Australians heaved a sigh of relief when told we would have a government for the 21st century, after two years of a leader who seemed trapped in an earlier epoch. But talk is cheap. After all, the previous prime minister, Tony Abbott, told us shortly after his election win that the adults were in charge and, after last February’s warning shot from his back bench, assured us that “good government starts today”.

But, politicking aside, what should we expect if our revitalised government were really to look forward to the 21st century? How can we be confident it isn’t just better sizzle but the same dodgy sausage? Let’s look at one broad concept that has rapidly become a vital consideration for this century: sustainability.

Read the piece on The Conversation by Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University, Ian Lowe - “Less water, less waste and more local goods: how 21st-centuryleadership can be sustainable”.