Monthly Archives: July 2023

Finding common ground is our number one task

Last week University of Tasmania geographer Chloe Lucas was announced a winner of the Tall Poppy Science Award for her outstanding work with young people switched on to climate change. Of equal note is her study over many years of … Continue reading

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The festering sore that led to the robodebt train wreck

The Royal Commission report into robodebt has exposed a wound in Australian state and federal government service that has been festering for decades, inflicted by personal ambition and kept hidden by a veneer of spin and sloganeering.  When I started … Continue reading

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Solastalgia and the crossing of legal boundaries

King George V and Queen Mary were cheering on their stallion, Anmer, in the Epsom Derby on Saturday 13 June 1913 when a woman ran on to the track and was struck by the horse as it raced past. She … Continue reading

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