Poisoning Paradise: Cape York’s Chilli Beach
The dire state of Chilli Beach, a remote beach on Australia’s Cape York, is shocking to many visitors: the flotsam and jetsam is impossible to miss. Chilli Beach is one of the remotest places in...
View ArticlePoisoning Paradise: Tackling the Ghost Nets Menace
Poisoning Paradise: Cape York’s Chilli Beach, a recent post in this series, discussed the pollution of a remote Australian beach by plastic rubbish including fishing nets: Chilli Beach is one of the...
View ArticlePoisoning Paradise: Oceans of Toxic Plastic
Are we poisoning our oceans and ourselves with plastics? Oceans of Plastic is the third of the “Poisoning Paradise” series. Plastic Oceans, a recent report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
View ArticleBlack in Brighton: Mariam Issa’s Resilient life
A Tale of Two New Years On New Year’s Eve 2009, fireworks in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton threatened to re-open old wounds from Mogadishu 1991. Somali-born Mariam Issa struggled to overcome...
View ArticleBottled Water Use, or Are We Really Drinking Unicorn Tears?
“I’m going to assume that it comes from the reverse membrane osmosis of tap water – but bottled water marketers will probably tell you it’s the tears of unicorns,” says Alex Serpo, Australian...
View ArticleVideo: ThinkBrigade’s Multimedia Journalists
These are some of the people who have been reporting for ThinkBrigade from around the globe in the last year. Watch this video message from ThinkBrigade’s multimedia journalists:
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