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The Conversation

October 27, 2025

Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right

Philippa Collin, Western Sydney University; Judith Bessant, RMIT University, and Rob Watts, RMIT University

The changing climate doesn’t just threaten younger people in the distant future, it’s happening now at a massive scale. But we can turn it around.

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January 12, 2022

‘Disappointment and disbelief’ after Morrison government vetoes research into student climate activism’

Philippa Collin, Western Sydney University; Brendan Churchill, The University of Melbourne; Faith Gordon, Australian National University; Judith Bessant, RMIT University; Michelle Catanzaro, Western Sydney University; Rob Watts, RMIT University, and Stewart Jackson, University of Sydney

Addressing urgent and complex problems such as climate change involves research across the full spectrum of society – and that includes Australia’s young people.

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