Environment
The BARK program at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre sees prisoners taking care of dogs
Elizabeth Kolbert (The Sixth Extinction) and scientist Dr John Williams explore the science surrounding climate change, the effects of land clearing and agriculture, and their impact on the planet’s biodiversity, and eventual survival.
In central Victoria, locals are taking up arms against the invading wheel cactus
The week that was nonsense
On Tuesday night, 18-year-old Abdul Numan Haider stabbed two counter-terrorism police officers outside the Endeavour Hills police station in Melbourne’s south-east and was shot dead.
Yesterday’s editions of The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times dedicated the front page of their print editions to the
To mark the 60th anniversary of Overland magazine, former Greens leader Bob Brown speaks with Overland editor Jeff Sparrow about the future of the green movement, the role of protest and demonstration and how Brown maintains faith in the future.
The science is clear, but the way forward is not
Issue-driven novels can be supremely powerful. In their books Christos Tsiolkas, Kathryn Heyman and Alexis Wright have deftly tackled the topics of class, migration, climate change and Indigenous affairs.
Clive Hamilton, author of Earthmasters, asks the question: What would it mean for humans to mould nature as a whole, to make the Earth itself into an artefact designed to suit our needs?
Those of us who live on the island of Australia can’t help but be influenced by its unique landscape.
Those of us who live on the island of Australia can’t help but be influenced by its unique landscape. Malcolm Knox, Kathryn Heyman and Ian Hoskins discuss understanding Australia through the nature and history of its land.
Greens Senator Richard Di Natale, Dr Richard Denniss and Prof Robert Manne talk about the economic case for social and environmental progress. Presented by La Trobe University Ideas and Society. Sept 2013
The issue of climate change has well and truly fallen off the front pages and down the list of voter concerns. Is the concept of climate change, and how much is at stake, literally beyond our imagination?
Simran Sethi, Adelaide Festival of Ideas