Erin Riddell
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Urban Dreams & Squatter Realities: Honiara
Urban Dreams Offices, salaries and opportunity colour the imagined ideal of The City. While for a privileged few this may indeed be a reality, for many this dream ends upon [...]
Easy as ABC: new media and civic education in Australian schools
The world is at a critical point; from the Kogi people of Colombia to the World Bank, we largely have woken up to the fact that we are heading down [...]
Walking the Walk: Christie Walk’s bold strides towards urban sustainability
“Cities are our most magnificent creations, but are essentially physical, built expressions of the society which creates them and, like all societies, they require constant maintenance to operate. Life is [...]
Climate Change: a symptom not a sickness
It is no secret that ‘good governance’ and democratisation are top priorities of development agendas in the Pacific region. While numerous Pacific nations have made the transition to ‘democracy’, at [...]
Sharing the Management Table: Indigenous expertise and climate change in Australia
As it becomes clear that western culture is ill-equipped to adequately respond to climate change, demand for alternative forms of climate data is growing. In Australia the knowledge of Aboriginal [...]
Reaching for the Stars
It is an underappreciated fact that government, campaigners, scientists and our brightest business minds do share a consensus on one issue; that Australia is ideally situated for [...]
Rolling on a River: towards partnership or piracy?
Set to ‘transform’ Queensland’s electricity market and improve lives in southern Papua New Guinea (PNG), the recently announced plans for hydro-electricity project in remote PNG to power northern Australia have [...]
