Right Now’s 2018 Transitions Film Festival Picks
By Heath Chamerski, Rachael Imam and Christopher RingroseWe review three groundbreaking documentaries from the 2018 Transitions Film Festival that explore society and environment.
Climate change
On nothing
By PS CottierPoet PS Cottier considers the cost of not listening to the water lapping at our doors.
For small island nations, climate science isn’t an intellectual exercise – it’s real life
By Fatima MeashamIt’s 2016 – so why do Australian politicians still contest the scientific consensus on man-made climate change?
Do we have what it takes to feed an expanding planet?
By Pia WhiteThe End of Plenty is a comprehensive and affecting exploration of the complexities of meeting the most basic need of the 7.4 billion people on the planet – the need for food.
Climate change and mass mobility in the Pacific
By Daniel WisemanDaniel Wiseman examines the emerging challenge of displacement caused by climate change.
A child’s right to a good earth
By Kate HoldenEvery parent wants the best for their child and vows to keep them safe. But what does this promise look like in a warming world?
The country is like a body
By Ellen van NeervenEllen van Neerven explores why Indigenous culture and knowledge should form an essential part of Australia’s response to climate change.
Not just another doomsday climate change book
By Pia WhiteThe Handbook is not your typical book about climate change science, writes Pia White.
Personal feelings about climate change aired in handwritten letters
By Mabel KwongAn exhibition at the Melbourne Writers Festival uses the age-old practice of letter writing to demonstrate the gravity of the world’s climate change problem.
Beyond Adaptation: Rights, Loss and Climate Change in the Torres Strait
By Elaine KellyElaine Kelly discusses the impacts of climate change in Torres Strait, and the legal frameworks that assist one of Australia’s most vulnerable communities.
Subliminal art pieces address the greatest challenge of our time – climate change
By Christopher RingroseThe Nature/Revelation exhibition uses art to manoeuvre the viewer into feelings of awe and respect of the natural environment and the effects of climate change, writes Christopher Ringrose.