Journal
Articles
Eating for the climate
IF THERE’S ONE area in which the battle for the food dollar has met the battle for the climate...
Tales from the frontline
Melbourne: 31 August 2020 Covid cases: Australia 25,746; [i] World 25,162,019[ii] Atmospheric carbon dioxide: 414.48 ppm[iii] LIKE PRETTY MUCH everyone lucky enough...
Returning value to profit
AS THE CONSCIENTIOUS middle child of Holocaust survivors, my objectives as a young man were narrow and conventional: to...
Verdigris
COPPER IS AMONG the earliest of metals to be used by humans, and has been smelted, cast and moulded...
The professor and the word
Every thinker thinks one thought. The researcher needs constantly new discoveries and inspirations, else science will bog down and...
Three poems
How to have a child Begin on the day you decide you are fit to carry on. Begin with a quailing heart for here...
urgent biophilia
wrist-deep in dirt for something less particular satisfaction more tasty than butter lettuce wilting kale curling towards sun cabbage grubs chew chew chewing cabbage butterflies...
Blue crane
Listen to Inga Simpson read ‘Blue crane’. THOSE FIRST WEEKS Sally walked the beach, it went unread. She saw only a scallop of...
Provenance
THEY WENT TO a broker. Working their way through the maze of the air market felt beyond them, if...
The Biyula novels
We pause in front of a fallen eucalypt blackened trunk glistening with charcoal grids decode species-information: the time of its seeding and the...
Animal perspective
ERIN HORTLE: In Tasmania, there is a place where female octopuses emerge from the water and make their way...
Hail hydrogen
I’M SITTING IN the passenger seat of a Hyundai Nexo on a tree-studded Canberra street. It’s stopped to reverse...
