Jenny Goldie

Jenny Goldie was on the staff of Senator John Coulter from 1988-1993 and remained friends until his death. She is a former science teacher and CSIRO science communicator. She co-founded Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population in 1988 which later became Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Jenny is immediate past-president of SPA and currently its NSW president. She founded Climate Action Monaro in 2011 and was recently re-elected president. She actively engages in public discussion of population and climate issues.

Recent articles by Jenny Goldie

For the sake of food security, we must address population numbers

For the sake of food security, we must address population numbers

As a child, the thought of other children going to bed hungry upset me. Later, I began university studies in agricultural science with the naïve intent of ridding the world of hunger. It was all about increasing crop yields to ensure that the then 3.1 billion people might be fed.

Yes, we do need a population plan

Yes, we do need a population plan

Abul Rizvi rightly argues that “we desperately need a population plan to enable better planning for our future by governments at all levels, and businesses”.

Vale Dr John Coulter

Vale Dr John Coulter

Dr John Coulter, who has died aged 93, had been suffering for months from VEXAS syndrome, an adult-onset autoinflammatory disease caused by a mutation of a gene in blood stem cells. It is perhaps ironic that he had himself worked on mutagens — the agents that cause mutations — at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide in the mid-1970s.