Climate Tasmania

With sustainability now a government buzzword, it’s time to get serious about the structural reforms needed to make it all happen. [28 June 2011 | Peter Boyer]
There was more than a little chutzpah in the Budget performance of Lara Giddings as she lined up cost-cutting targets in her plans to avoid the financial abyss ahead.
Closing [...]

Getting the settings in place to curb our relentlessly rising carbon emissions is the public policy challenge of our age. At year’s end there’s some hope that we might be making progress. [28 December 2010 | Peter Boyer]
It’s always a blessed relief at each year’s end to get some peace from the noise of politics, [...]

Address by Peter Boyer to the Teacher Professional Development meeting of the Primary Industry Centre for Science Education, Hobart, 6 December 2010

[The presentation began with a viewing of an excerpt from a 1958 US television production and a Hobart newspaper article from 1959 (see right)]
The first item we just saw came from an educational documentary [...]