If the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project proceeds, it will create around 3 million tonnes of new CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions per annum, according to estimates by The Australia Institute (TAI). This is the equivalent of 735,000 new petrol cars on our roads. The $500m HESC pilot project was subsidised by $50 m…
Sarah RussellNovember 13, 2023
There have been two areas of major failures during the Covid-19 pandemic – aged care and hotel quarantine. Both are ‘open and shut’ cases of Commonwealth responsibility. Yet federal government ministers, with the cooperation of parts of the mainstream media, have indulged in semantics to try to shift the blame…
Sarah RussellFebruary 5, 2021
Rorts abounded before the last federal election. The sports rorts, the $2.5 billion community development grants slush fund, the Regional Growth Fund; the Urban Congestion Fund, Regional Infrastructure Grants program, the non-compliant drought grants. Ad infinitum. Just a week out from the election, Queensland Coalition MP Luke Howarth announced $2 million for…
Sarah RussellDecember 22, 2020
Our government heeds the advice of medical experts regarding coronavirus yet ignores the advice of climate experts regarding the warming of our planet. Their extreme positions suggest they are coronavirus alarmists and climate change deniers. First published as a Letter to the Editor, The Age 15 February 2020
Sarah RussellFebruary 15, 2020
A fire has destroyed the 850 year old Gothic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Macron says it will be rebuilt. Our state government plans to destroy 800-year-old Djab Wurrung trees to extend the western freeway near Ararat. Daniel Andrews won’t be able to rebuild them. No one will. When will…
Sarah RussellApril 18, 2019
When I buy processed food, I value knowing how much sugar, fat and salt I am putting in my body. I would also value knowing how much carbon I am putting in the atmosphere when I go shopping. What is the cost to the Earth of buying a new pair…
Sarah RussellFebruary 25, 2007
Earlier this year, nursing celebrated its twentieth anniversary as part of the university system. Although there are nursing schools in most universities, the focus is on vocational education, not scholarship. Without a commitment to scholarship, it may be more appropriate for nursing schools to be located in technical colleges. My…
Sarah RussellNovember 24, 2004
There are many threats to our world's environment. You do not need to be a genius, or even a geographer, to realise this. I just happen to be the latter (certainly not the former) and, as such, have been empowered by Farrago to speak with some authority on the topic…
Sarah RussellJuly 21, 1993