I am an experienced public speaker, panel chair and broadcaster, talking about all things science, health, and the environment at events including:
- The 2021 Mick Dark ‘Talk For The Future’ at Varuna – The National Writers’ House.
- Activism in the age of climate change panel, for the Sydney Science Festival.
- The Australian Bushfire Building Conference, which I have MC’d since 2017.
- The Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Death Gone Wrong panel, with Dr Peter Saul and Dr David Celermajer, at the Sydney Opera House Playhouse Theatre.
- The 2016 Sydney Writers Festival, chairing a panel on climate change with Professor Tim Flannery and Professor Peter Doherty, and a panel on science writing with Professor Janna Levin, Michael Slezak and Wilson da Silva.
- The 2015 Byron Bay Writers Festival, speaking on panels about death and science.
- Council On The Ageing forum, NSW State Parliament: Let’s Talk About Dying
- Dying Well: a panel at the Brisbane Writers Festival, 2013, with broadcaster Phillip Adams, author Ruth Ozeki, poet Nathan Shepherson, and author Bianca Nogrady, broadcast on Radio National.
- Successful Freelancing, with Valerie Khoo and Bianca Nogrady at the Australian Science Communicators (NSW).
- Waste Not: A film by the Total Environment Centre.
- Scanning Long Term Horizons, ABARES Outlook 2014: chairing a panel of seven experts discussing future projections for agriculture, fisheries and forestry in Australia.
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