Now that the Australian election has been called for next month, here are a few cartoon reminders of the state of environmental politics in this country (hint: they’re abysmal). I’ve surpassed my normal 6 cartoons/post here in this second set for 2022 because, well, our lives depend on the outcome of 21 May. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here.
Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months after Europeans arrived on the First Fleet. Little is known of the true scale of the epidemic,…
Just over two years ago I reported the ‘likely’ eradication of feral pigs from Australia’s third-largest (4,405 km2) island — Kangaroo Island. I indicated ‘likely’ because the program still required the proof-of-eradication phase to be completed before an official declaration could be made. Yesterday I had the immense honour to take part in the official…
Have you ever done any research that relied to any degree on Indigenous Knowledges? How did you cite those Knowledges, if at all? It’s probably time we rethink how we engage with Indigenous Knowledge systems. In a new article published in BioScience, we — a large group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars in Australia —…
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