Jacki Schirmer – The Conversation

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July 21, 2023

Cheap shots aside, Chalmers has work to do to improve his new ‘wellbeing’ framework

John Hawkins, University of Canberra and Jacki Schirmer, University of Canberra

For measures of wellbeing to be useful to the budget process, they will need to be both timely and capture more than the ‘average’.

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April 7, 2022

What would it take to get Australians to buy electric cars? Canberra provides a guide

Yogi Vidyattama, University of Canberra; Darren Sinclair, University of Canberra; Jacki Schirmer, University of Canberra, and Robert Tanton, University of Canberra

A study commissioned by the ACT government finds zero-interest loans and free registration help – but the price of the car and petrol prices matter most of all.

Farmers need help to plan for droughts, not just to respond to them when things get desperate. Stephenallen75/Shutterstock.com

August 8, 2018

To help drought‑affected farmers, we need to support them in good times as well as bad

Jacki Schirmer, University of Canberra; Dominic Peel, University of Canberra; Ivan Charles Hanigan, University of Sydney, and Kimberly Brown, University of Canberra

The government has offered emergency payments to drought-stricken farmers. But if we really care about them, we’ll also invest in long-term drought resilience measures to reduce impacts.

We love our fish ‘n’ chips, but most Australians don’t think our fisheries are sustainable. Simon Collison/Flickr

March 5, 2014

Why don’t we believe Australia’s fisheries are sustainable?

Jacki Schirmer, University of Canberra; Lain Dare, University of Canberra, and Peter O'Brien, University of Canberra

Australians love seafood. We each consumed an average of 25 kilograms of seafood in 2010 – an amount that has increased significantly over the last 30 years. Worldwide, fish consumption now exceeds beef…

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