Miki Perkins

May 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Miki Perkins

The long brown ribbon of the Merri Creek flows through Wurundjeri country, past the industrial northern suburbs of Melbourne/Naarm until it joins the Yarra. On this unseasonably warm autumn day people are out in the sun, riding and running along the path that traces the creek’s edge where I walk with the actor Nadine Garner.

Apr 23, 2024 | inkl.com | Miki Perkins |Daanyal Saeed

Meanwhile, the former partner charged with murdering Forbes mother Molly Ticehurst was released on bail mere weeks ago after he was charged with sexually assaulting, stalking and intimidating her, the ABC reports. The NSW government has ordered a review into the court’s decision, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it “completely unacceptable” that a woman a week is being killed by a man they know (in this case, allegedly). So what do we do?

Apr 22, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Miki Perkins

Is there any surer way to irritate an aggrieved group than propose they take a “chill pill”? No, not really. Especially when the group in question is Australia’s conservation movement, which has just had to swallow a very bitter pill: Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announcing she will delay her promise to rewrite the country’s failing environment laws.

Mar 18, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Miki Perkins

More than three years ago, former competition watchdog Professor Graeme Samuel handed down his review of Australia’s environment laws, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC). His verdict? A concerted effort was needed to “fundamentally re-write and modernise the act and its implementation”. To fail on these reforms would be to accept the “continued decline of Australia’s iconic places and the extinction of threatened plants and animals”.

Dec 26, 2023 | theage.com.au | Miki Perkins

From a distance, the white flush looks almost like a line of snow, freshly settled on the mountain slopes. This is Mount Hotham, after all, one of Victoria's most popular snowsports destinations, known best as a playground of powder snow and downhill ski runs, chair lifts and alpine lodges. But the white haze that covers these slopes is not snow, it's dead trees. Dead snow gums, to be precise, Eucalyptus pauciflora.