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May 3, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Liz Conor
Tēnā koe Vice-Chancellor Dawn Freshwater,As members of staff of the University of Auckland, we are deeply concerned by your announcement of 30 April 2024 advising students and staff of your decision to not support the establishment of an overnight encampment by students protesting in solidarity with Palestine.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Jordy Silverstein |Liz Conor
Dear The Hon. Steve Bracks AC, Vice-Chancellor Adam Shoemaker, Deputy Vice-Chancellor John Germov, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Lisa Line, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Andy Hill, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Wade Noonan and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Wayne Butson. We the undersigned members of the Victoria University community, sign this petition, to urgently appeal to Victoria University to take a principled stance against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Jayne Persian |Liz Conor |Andrew McLean
On 22 September, during a visit to the Canadian Parliament by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Speaker Anthony Rota publicly introduced ninety-eight-year-old Yaroslav Hunka as a constituent ‘who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians’ as part of the First Ukrainian Division during the Second World War. He was ‘a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service.’ Hunka received a standing ovation from all present.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
bizzbuzz.news | Liz Conor
Even in the current energy transition there can be gross disparities between employer and worker. As heat intensifies, some employers are giving ice vests to their migrant workers so they can keep working. That's reminiscent of coal shovelers in the furnace-like stokeholes of steam ships being immersed in ice-baths on collapse, as historian On Barak has shownIn 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82 per cent of the world's energy while it was 87 per cent two years before that.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
techxplore.com | Liz Conor
In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world's energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they've been offset by increased demand for energy. That's why the United Nations earlier this month released a global stocktake—an assessment on how the world is going in weaning itself off these energy-dense but dangerously polluting fuels. Short answer: progress, but nowhere near enough, soon enough.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
tolerance.ca | Liz Conor |La Trobe
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Liz Conor
In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they’ve been offset by increased demand for energy. That’s why the United Nations earlier this month released a global stocktake – an assessment on how the world is going in weaning itself off these energy-dense but dangerously polluting fuels. Short answer: progress, but nowhere near enough, soon enough.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | John Kinsella |Liz Conor |Max Brierty |Stephen Muecke
Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance. Shelley, A Defence of PoetryDo we rely on having—or expect to ‘have’—a spirit even if we don’t believe they exist? I think of Emperor Hadrian’s address to his spirit or soul just before death, and wonder if it was a case of self-denial or self-delusion or maybe absolute certainty for all the crimes of power in the world of the living?
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Liz Conor |Andrew McLean |Max Brierty |Stephen Muecke
Dampier is back in the press. as the archipelago named after him is now the site of the proposed Woodside Energy $16 billion Scarborough gas project. The salty coastline Dampier bumped into in 1688, and returned to in 1699, will be cleaved by an undersea pipeline cutting through whale migration routes and protected Marine Parks renowned for their biodiversity.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Barry Corr |Liz Conor |Andrew McLean
Geoffrey Blainey’s recent article in The Weekend Australian (1–2 July) urged Australians to get the “facts in order” before voting on The Voice portrays the “Yes” campaign as historically unfounded and a misrepresention of Australian history before and after 1788. Personally, I like Blainey’s writing; he has a fine forensic mind, which has proved particularly useful in tearing down dodgy research and fanciful conclusions throughout his distinguished career.
