Melissa Haswell
Dr Melissa Haswell is the Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) and an Honorary Professor in the School of Geosciences at University of Sydney. She is also a Professor of Health, Safety and Environment at Queensland University of Technology. She has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, researching and advocating for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, the epidemiology and control of infectious and chronic disease, environmental toxicology and planetary health for over 40 years.
Melissa's recent articles
28 August 2024
Inquiry raises deep concerns over Labor’s $1.5 billion cash splash for new NT gas hub
A Senate inquiry has failed to reach agreement on whether the Federal Government should spend A$1.5 billion on a major industrial hub in Darwin – spending critics say amounts to a huge fossil fuel subsidy.
27 January 2022
'Let it rip' mentality underlies Australia's cruelest policy failures
Australias Covid let it rip mentality is deeply ingrained in the nations past and, through climate and environmental inaction, is driving a larger peril.
3 September 2020
The Battle of Narrabri may well decide our climate future
Approval for the Narrabri gas project will say goodbye to any hope of an effective climate policy and usher in an expanding national gas industry with a rise in emissions and untold direct damage to the sustainability of this drying continent.
10 June 2020
The Climate Tide roars in, yet leaders fail to understand and act
Climate change is a massively complex wicked problem hence solutions require human capacities of logic and imagination guiding action. Our leaders appear bereft of science-based logic, acknowledging neither magnitude nor urgency of climate change.