PhD student @sydneyunigeo, researching the infrastructures, labours and the materialities of waste.
Joined April 2018
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Contributions from @AlistairSisson, @DallasRogers101 and @profcgibson, Elizabeth Duncan @WasteLizard, Ellen Burke, Laurence Troy, Pratichi Chatterjee, @SophiaMaalsen, Sophie Webber, Wendy Murray @drawingacrowd, and me. Illustrations by Wendy Murray. See: sydneyweneedtotalk.com/chapt…
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These new billboards are a complete nuisance. Watching mobility impaired seniors try to navigate around this without being taken out by cars and buses wizzing by is heart breaking. Cannot believe these were allowed to be installed.
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Urgent reminder that peat is 50% carbon. When you remove peat from its protective boggy ecosystem and spread it in your garden, that carbon ends up in the atmosphere. Peat in bogs not bags. Spread the word. Go #peatfree.
ALT Image of commercial peat bags at a garden store.
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Finally got my hands on this baby!(baby no2 still cooking). I decided to write this when I realised work from diverse disciplines was coalescing into a story abt the rise of new pathogen ecologies in homes & cities, yet the disciplines remained disconnected. Some highlights inc:
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In a landmark case, the Environment Centre NT are taking the Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt over his $21million grant to a fracking company. Follow the case here: ecnt.org.au/dont_frack_the_b…
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can anyone recommend interesting reading on anticlimax? on living through an anticlimax, on expectations, disappointment, and despondency?
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Hey @ScottMorrisonMP, I’ve read and reread the transcript of your presser yesterday responding to the #IPCCReport, and there’s a bunch of stuff you’re wrong about. Time to bust the Morrison Myths about climate change. Here’s a thread.
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Thanks @MehreenFaruqi, really important that this kind of map is seen alongside the OECD numbers that have been doing the rounds in the past few days, to put things in global context. We are right to be angry about low rates here, and should be angry about low rates anywhere.
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Was lucky enough to visit some beautiful temperate highland peat swamps threatened by longwall coal mining with the Lithgow environment group yesterday. Difference in post-bushfire regeneration in those undermined and those not is staggering.
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JobKeeper was designed to reduce inequality. But some firms are using taxpayer money to pay massive executive bonuses. In 90 seconds, I listed the worst offenders andrewleigh.com/executive_sa… #auspol #ausecon @OMgovernance
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Priorities:
❌ National broadcaster
❌ Universities
❌ Research funding
❌ Child care
❌ Arts
❌ Renewable energy
✅ Property speculation
✅ Missiles
✅ Fossil fuels
✅ Construction
✅ War memorial
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Right now the dominant plan in economics is to double the size of the global economy in the next 20 years. Take all the extraction, production and consumption we're doing right now and double it by the 2040s, on a planet that's already buckling. That's what 3% growth entails.
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At yesterday's all-staff meeting w the VC and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, casualised staff detailed why cutting courses and jobs is a false economy. We are pleased to share that information with you here now in this video. Please watch and share! @NHECasuals #savehigheredjobs
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2 things you can do to help in Aus right now: donate to the @ALS_NSWACT and send this pro forma letter to the AG to raise the age of criminal responsibility FROM 10 YEARS OLD (!!) alsnswact.org.au/donate & inmyblooditruns.com/takeacti… #blacklivesmatteraustralia #AboriginalLivesMatter
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Some thoughts from me on how current public space restrictions intensify pre-existing inequalities and enclosures, and what we might do about it theconversation.com/we-dont-… via @ConversationEDU
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As govts scramble to keep things going we are about to find out that:
* homelessness is not necessary
* poverty is not necessary
* insecure work is not necessary
They are all choices. Absurd and callous choices.
Let's not choose them again when this is over.
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Government now has to make a call- do we want water or coal mines in Sydney’s drinking water catchment.
Because we can’t have both.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
