Archive for June 15th, 2005
Platypuses Can Live with Supermarkets
Posted by jennifer, June 15th, 2005 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 1
There seems to be much excitment about the discovery of lots and lots of playtpuses at Maleny, 100 odd kms north of Brisbane, where some locals have been trying to stop the building of a Woolies for many, many months.
The ideas is that because there are Platypuses there should be no supermarket. Indeed according [...]
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Should Academics Play E-Politics?
Posted by jennifer, June 15th, 2005 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Philosophy
Comments: 7
What role might Universities play in the “small-p politics” of the environment? This is the subject of a piece in today’s The Australian in which I am quoted as saying, academics should foster informed debate but not be “advocates of a particular perspective”.
Professor Peter Fairweather from Flinder’s University is quoted, “We (academics) have to [...]

