Jennifer Marohasy

I was back at the Future Summit today listening to more speakers lament climate change and how it is going to be drier and warmer in the future. Tom Hatten from CSIRO could have spoken about the science, but he also deferred to perceptions commenting that “climate change scenarios are now widely accepted” [...]

It is Mother’s Day on Sunday. My mother is in Barcelona in Spain at the moment and I’m sending her an e-card compliments of the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF).
I’m usually fairly cynical when it comes to environment groups, but I have some sympathy for the work of the AWF and their website and cards [...]

The Weekly Times, a rural Victorian newspaper, had a feature this week on animal rights. It reports on a group called Voiceless that plans to work with school children against the eating and wearing of animal products.
Interestingly Voiceless already have a program with Griffith University for the development of a school curriculum.
While the [...]

I spent yesterday at a conference in Brisbane hearing about “the future” and Australia’s place in “The Age of Asia”.
I enjoyed the talk at lunch by P.P.Shukla, the Indian High Commissioner to Australia, titled ‘The Emergence of Asia from India’s Perspective’. He commented that India only used to consider Australia in the [...]

I am a student studying Australian Politics as a course at University, and I have an environmental question to give a presentation on:
“How does environmentalism challenge how we think about Australian Politics?”
I’m at a bit of a loss, can anyone help me on this?
Shannon Tonkin