PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
I am in the end of my second year of a PhD at University of Manchester. I am studying the strategic responses of the Australian coal industry to the challenge of climate change.
I used to be a physiotherapist (amputee rehabilitation).
For what it is worth, I think we're not going to get out of this mess.
Sep 21, 2023 12:02 pm UTC| Politics
Rishi Sunak has delivered a speech in which he announced delays to key net zero targets, including postponing the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars until 2035. It is a remarkable event given that the UK...
Watching our politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I'm overwhelmed by déjà vu
Jan 10, 2020 10:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As someone who has studied Australian climate policy and politics closely, this summers bushfire crisis have been both heartbreaking and bewildering. The grave warnings politicians ignored for so long have now come to...
The too hard basket: a short history of Australia's aborted climate policies
Aug 21, 2018 17:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Less than three years ago, after Malcolm Turnbull had wrested the prime ministership from Tony Abbott, I wrote an article entitled Carbon coups: from Hawke to Abbott, climate policy is never far away when leaders come a...
Is BHP really about to split from the Minerals Council's hive mind?
Sep 22, 2017 03:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester Shareholder action has struck again (perhaps). The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, on behalf of more than 120...
It's ten years since Rudd's 'great moral challenge', and we have failed it
Mar 31, 2017 04:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Ten years ago today, Kevin Rudd spoke at the National Climate Summit at Parliament House, in Canberra, famously declaring climate change to be the great moral challenge of our generation. One of Kevin Rudds most...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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