Ever felt driven mad by an issue until you could no longer sleep, but didn’t know how to share it? You might just learn a thing or two from PEN International President Jennifer Clement, author of several acclaimed books and key speaker at this year’s San Miguel Writers’ Conference in Mexico. Approaching urgent and controversial…
Video broadcast on March 1, 2011 on ABC national television News 24 and audio on ABC Radio National. Cyclone Yasi hasn’t just wrought havoc on land in northern Queensland. The destructive winds of the category five system have destroyed coral and marine life in the Great Barrier Reef and disturbed fish stocks. The Great Barrier…
Broadcast on ABC TV News24 on January 3, 2011. Heavy rains and flooding have brought destruction from many communities in northern Queensland, but on the positive side many water storages are full. The Peter Faust dam near Proserpine in northern Queensland, has spilled for the first time since it was built in 1990. Water suppliers are…