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Good teachers stay with you for your whole life. Here’s a short roll call of some teachers who shaped mine. At primary school I fell in love with kind, patient Miss Fielding, my first grade teacher, while streetwise Mrs Dick … Continue reading →

Another annual climate summit is with us. More hype, more dire warnings, more noisy protests, more solemn pronouncements, more hypocrisy, more fakery. This in a year set to be far and away the hottest in recorded history, when ice sheets … Continue reading →

It has been a long and anxious wait, but last week produced two signs that the Tasmanian government is now on board with the notion that being committed to climate change is more than just saying so.  The first came … Continue reading →