Today, world leaders gather in Port Moresby for the APEC Summit. It’s been a long and difficult road for the people of PNG. On a recent field trip, I took the road trip from a PNG village to APEC Haus. This is what I saw and heard. Link here to my story in The Monthly. Continue reading
Category Archives: Policy
Betting The Farm: ABC Background Briefing
While working on a story on the impact of CSIRO cuts for Good Weekend a couple of months ago, I came across some startling science describing the scale and speed of shifts occurring on the Australian landscape as climate change bites. That was the kernel of what has become my second-ever radio documentary for ABC … Continue reading
Paris COP21 Climate Summit: Planet Earth Blog
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been engaged as a “guest blogger” by the University of Melbourne to provide some guided commentary on its “Pursuit” communications platform around the Paris talks. Mostly the focus was to delve into the university’s in-house expert resource, but I had a long leash. After the Agreement, the blog … Continue reading
Solar power in Australia: Yale Environment 360
My second piece for Yale Environment 360, a website produced out of Yale University to showcase reporting, analysis, opinion and debate on environmental science. This article presents a snapshot of the state of solar in Australia, rounding up the policy and politics that have put solar units on so many Australian homes (highest proportion of … Continue reading