A Challenge for the Human Race — the Need for Leadership

David de Kretser
There has been much written and spoken about the issue of climate change over the past few years. These discourses build the case that there is a significant change in ...
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A reckoning with climate distress: Restoring hope and igniting meaningful actions

Katie Hayes
Climate change affects our emotional wellbeing. With increasing exposures to climate-related hazards, dire projections by climate scientists, and the news media highlighting our impending doom in epic proportions, it is ...
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Agriculture in Australia: Growing more than our farming future

Peter Langridge, Michael D’Occhio & Dana Cordell
Food and agriculture are fundamental to human survival and it was the birth of agriculture and farming that laid down the basis for human civilisation. Since the first crops were ...
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AI for sustainability: A changing landscape

Ehsan Nabavi, Katherine A. Daniell, Elizabeth T. Williams and Caitlin M. Bentley
Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting society in varied ways as researchers and practitioners are using it to gain new insights into different problems and to open up new business opportunities ...
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Australian Government Action in the 1980s

Joan Staples
Twenty years ago in 1989, Environment Minister Graham Richardson took a proposal to Cabinet for a 20% reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2005. He was unsuccessful, but two years later ...
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Before they end us, we can and must end nuclear weapons

Tilman Ruff
On 24 January 1946, the very first resolution of the UN General Assembly called for the ‘elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons’. More than 71 years later, in Conference ...
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Rob Adams

Transforming Australian Cities

More than 80% of Australians and over half of the world’s population now live in cities: cities that are responsible, directly or indirectly, for nearly ...
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Kate Auty

Climate Change: It’s a ‘People’ Thing and it Discriminates

Much of our agricultural land is presently straining under the ‘worst drought in living memory’: 80% of Queensland is drought declared. This drought comes upon ...
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Catherin Bull

Place of a Nation? Canberra’s Central National Area in its Second Century

In its earliest imaginings by politicians and bureaucrats, Canberra was imagined as a city — and a national capital — in a landscape. It was ...
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Susie Burke and Grant Blashki

Climate change anxiety and our mental health

The phrase inconvenient truth, made famous by Al Gore’s movie, has unfortunately for humanity turned out to be not only inconvenient and true, but quite ...
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Julian Burnside

The science of climate change

Climate change represents the greatest challenge to human existence we have ever experienced ... For most people, the idea that our planet will become impossible ...
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Peter Christoff

If Not Now, Then When?

Global warming threatens to transform our planet by raising sea levels, causing widespread water shortages, increasing the frequency and intensity of storms, extinguishing species, altering ...
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