Author & Research Fellow, Global Change Institute (University of Queensland)

 




Selected Works and Media 

 

'Mine coal, sell coal, repeat until rich'
Speech at the Greenhouse
Woodford Folk Festival (Dec'11)
 

 

 'Can the  US and Australia slake China's coal thirst and still claim CO2 progress' - Andrew Revkin's NYT Dot Earth page (Nov '11)

  'It tolls for thee'
The Monthly (Nov '11)
   'Comment: The Climate Movement'
The Monthly (Sept '11)
 

 'Coal's Next Alibi-The coal industry's coal-fed algae plan'
The Monthly (Aug '11)

 


"If we don't export the coal someone else will" etc: debunking the excuses for Australia's precious place in coal's world" -- Speech to Lock the Gate Forum, Toowoomba;
School of Political Science UQ (Aug'11)

 


'Comment: Dick Smith's Population Crisis'
The Monthly (June '11)

   

'Macfarlane says the unthinkable' ABC - The Drum (Apr '11)

 


'Pearse: is this carbon price a big step sideways?' Crikey (Feb '11)

   

'Comment: Renewable Energy'
The Monthly  (Feb '11)

 

 'Australia's precious place in the coal industry's world', Speech at Climate Camp, Lake Liddell Recreation Area
(Dec '10)  

   

 'The coal bosses' plan: mine coal, sell coal, repeat until rich', Sunday Age  (Nov '10)

 

 'Something Big' behind Queensland's Climatesmart Spin', ABC Unleashed (Nov '10)

 

'Queensland's Continuing Carbon Addiction' Presentation at the University of Queensland (Oct '10)  

 

 'Coalminers' world tour'
Interview on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, ABC Radio National
(Sep '10)

 

 'Hunter risks becoming one trick pony'
Interview with Jill Emberson - ABC Radio Newcastle (Sep '10)

 

 'Land of the Long Black Cloud'
The Monthly
(Sep '10)

 

 'The Dark Horse: Will the Greens Hold the Balance'
50 Something
(Aug/Sept '10)
 

 

    'BP's Greenwash'
The Monthly
(Aug '10)

 

 'Greens should let this government fall and learn', Crikey (Aug '10)

 

 'A Green Balance?'
The Monthly
(Jul '10)

   

'Addicts & Enablers'
Sierra Magazine (US)
(May/June '10)

 

 'Climate change campaigners must learn some lessons', Sunday Age, (May '10)

   

'King Coal'
The Monthly
(May '10)

   

'On borrowed time and borrowed carbon'
(in Goodbye to all that: The failure of Neoliberalism and the urgency of change edited by Robert Manne and David McKnight)
(Apr '10)

 

 'Would you like to fry with that?' 
Sunday Age, (Feb '10)

 

 'Green pot of gold lures politicians seeking answers'
with Gregg Borschmann,
The Age, (Dec '09)


 'Man of Coal'
Sunday Age (Dec '09)

 

 'Quarry Vision: Coal, climate change and the end of the resources boom', Quartely Essay 33, Black Inc. (Mar '09) 

 

 'Polluters' Blank Cheque' The Age
(Mar '09)

 

'Revolving Doors'
Review of Robert Kaiser's
So Damn Much Money
The Monthly (Jul '09)

 

 'The Nation Reviewed'
The Monthly (Jul '08) 

 

  'Pearse: Ingredients for another failed response (the Garnaut Report)'
Crikey (Jul '08)

 

 Rudd following Howard's lead?'
Crikey (Jul '08)

 

'How green is my ally'
with Terry Tamminen
Bulletin (Nov '07)

   

 'High & Dry: John Howard, climate change and the selling of Australia's future'
Penguin (Jul '07)