Nicole Hasham

Canberra

Environment and Energy Editor at The Conversation (Australia)

Journalist, writer, Environment + Energy editor @ConversationEDU. Book forthcoming with Black Inc.

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Brisbane suburbs at risk: these maps show the areas most likely to flood during Cyclone Alfred

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Matt Garrow |Nicole Hasham

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is forecast to strike densely populated areas of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales. Brisbane, home to more than 2.5 million people, is among the places in the storm’s path. Brisbane city council says almost 20,000 properties in the Queensland capital could be affected by storm surges or flooding. Residents have been urged to consider relocating ahead of the cyclone’s arrival. Peak flooding and storm surges are expected from Thursday.
Brisbane on alert: these maps show the suburbs most likely to flood during Cyclone Alfred

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Matt Garrow |Nicole Hasham

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is forecast to strike densely populated areas of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales. Brisbane, home to more than 2.5 million people, is among the places in the storm’s path. Brisbane city council says almost 20,000 properties in the Queensland capital could be affected by storm surges or flooding. Residents have been urged to consider relocating ahead of the cyclone’s arrival. Peak flooding and storm surges are expected from Thursday.
Best Australian nature writing’ edited by Dave Witty

1 month ago | australianbookreview.com.au | Nicole Hasham |Arts Highlights

For a creature born to life as a small songbird, days and nights can be treacherous. At any moment, a goshawk, a cat, or a goanna may be lurking, waiting to turn the songbird into supper. So these pretty little prey objects – scrubwrens and lorikeets and honeyeaters and the like – have developed an astute group behaviour. One bird spots the predator and issues an alarm call.
The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’ by Nicole Hasham

Jul 29, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Nicole Hasham |Arts Highlights

To obliterate a mountain, one must first drill a series of holes 2.4 metres deep – in either a square or diagonal pattern, depending on the rock type and face condition. A crew moves in to load the holes with blasting agent, typically a mix of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. Detonators and boosters are laid and an explosive cord is run over the mountain face. A fuse is lit.
The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’ by Nicole Hasham

Jun 26, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Nicole Hasham |Arts Highlights

To obliterate a mountain, one must first drill a series of holes 2.4 metres deep – in either a square or diagonal pattern, depending on the rock type and face condition. A crew moves in to load the holes with blasting agent, typically a mix of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. Detonators and boosters are laid and an explosive cord is run over the mountain face. A fuse is lit.
Power and the glory: The ‘Forgiveness Cross’

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Nicole Hasham |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly

The unveiling of an illuminated Christian monument near the remote community of Haasts Bluff, west of Alice Springs Ken Duncan runs his palm flush down the rippling trunk of a ghost gum. He turns to the group before him and holds up his hand. “See this powder?” he asks, showing them an ivory chalk on his fingers. “It’s a natural sunscreen.” Duncan rubs the powder onto his forearm. “The tree’s so white it needs protection.
Brute Reserve: The wrong time to restrict the influence of the RBA

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Claire Connelly |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Nicole Hasham

As central banks around the world assume greater responsibility for economic policy settings, especially in the face of climate change pressures, the RBA is being reduced to an inflation-buster During the Covid crisis, central banks around the world – including the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) – worked collaboratively with their respective governments to take care of people through a range of different methods, ranging from mortgage and rent freezes and fiscal stimulus, to quantitative...
Staying white

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko |Judith Brett |Claire Connelly |Nicole Hasham

Why do some people with Aboriginal ancestry choose not to identify as Indigenous, even when First Nations communities are welcoming? Jan Morris, a Welsh travel writer who knew a thing or two about identity transition, predicted in her 1992 book Sydney that mainstream Australia was about to embrace its Aboriginal heritage. Just as the convict stain had lost its stigma, the “taint” of native blood would, she anticipated, soon become cause for celebration rather than shame.
PwC and a question of character

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly |Nicole Hasham

How a culture of outsourcing created a shadow public service and captured government Whatever happened to character? Among the books my mother left behind is an old brown book with thick cardboardy pages, slightly foxed, and the spine carefully reinforced with brown paper. It’s called Building of Character. This is its opening line: “The building of character is the most important business of life.
August 2023 | The Monthly

Jul 24, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly |Nicole Hasham |Jennifer Miller

‘You never know who you might meet’ A piece of motherly prompting, at first dismissed but later embraced, helped in the author’s life and her writing