It was a delicate moment in an otherwise happy session during last year's Science Week at the ANU. The British environmentalist Jeremy Leggett was speaking…

In May my husband and I began a trip interstate in our EV. We travelled to South Australia then roughly north east across country to just north of Brisbane, and then back down the east coast. Despite our fears that we would be stranded by either non viable or non […]

In May and June this year my partner and I drove a Kia Nero EV to Magnetic Island and back. For us it was a unique way to travel and, having it on loan from friends, a chance to assess our plans to buy one. It had its ups and […]

The plane is on fire. Catastrophic impact is imminent unless immediate action is taken. The cabin crew have been trained to prepare the passengers for an emergency landing and the pilots know to follow their standard procedures and divert off course to attempt a landing at the nearest airport. Following […]

For two over 70’s, car holidays were becoming increasingly tiring and challenging, in terms of driving, and distance. So, in 2019 we had arranged to take a 10 day family catch up holiday from Tasmania to Adelaide using only public transport. On paper, it appeared that this was entirely feasible […]

From The Guardian: Dixe Wills repeats his teenage Interrail odyssey, at a more leisurely pace this time, pausing to reflect on the unique opportunity the 31-country pass offers. > https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/jun/22/back-on-track-my-return-interrailing-interrail-pass

I have a confession to make… forty years ago, I left the small central Gippsland town of Trafalgar where I grew up, for university and the bright lights of Melbourne. In the intervening years, I’ve lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Boston and Washington DC, with regular international holidays to almost all […]

We are grandparents living in Tasmania with children and grandchildren living on mainland Australia. We have both spent innumerable hours travelling by plane over our vast continent primarily for work but also for pleasure. In recent year we have come to recognise that while flying is promoted as an extremely […]

I came to the understanding that flying was dangerous to our climate during 2019. In October that year, I made a trip to Western Australian wildflower fields. What I saw there completely blew me away: remnant nature in all its glory. Driving through the forests, I was stopping the car […]