Danielle Celermajer – The Conversation

Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals

January 28, 2025

As the Black Summer megafires neared, people rallied to save wildlife and domestic animals. But it came at a real cost

Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney; Anna Sturman, University of Sydney; Blanche Verlie, University of Sydney; Freya MacDonald, University of Sydney, and Natasha Heenan, University of Sydney

When authorities fight fires, they focus on human life and property. But animals are part of communities too – and disaster preparation should reflect this

WWF Australia

August 31, 2021

Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature. A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime must recognise this fundamental truth

Anthony Burke, UNSW and Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney

The push for a new environmental crime has attracted high-profile backers including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg. But we must get the details right.

Australia is home to many new species, including wild camels found nowhere else on Earth.

November 28, 2019

Non‑native species should count in conservation – even in Australia

Arian Wallach, University of Technology Sydney; Chelsea Batavia, Oregon State University; Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney; Daniel Ramp, University of Technology Sydney; Erick Lundgren, University of Technology Sydney, and Esty Yanco, University of Technology Sydney

Species counts drive conservation science and policy, yet a major component of biodiversity is excluded from the data: non-native species.

The efficacy of our political conventions relies on a healthy respect in society for their role in regulating our governments. AAP

December 14, 2015

We all have a role in protecting democracy’s unwritten rules

Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney

Laws play their role in regulating our governments, but so does our own respect for political conventions. And the way these are upheld goes to the heart of our freedom as democratic people.

The failure of senior ministers of government to observe basic protocols of respect for the Human Rights Commission and its president, Gillian Triggs, gives the nation a signal that the institutions of democracy are dispensable. AAP/Lukas Coch

February 16, 2015

Respect independent statutory bodies as central to democracy

Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney

In his incautious remarks about the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) report into children in detention, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has shown a disregard for basic institutions of democracy that…

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