Sheep Farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’

When I first heard about the Midlands Conservation Partnership I wanted to tell the world, because it’s a great story of collaboration.

This is my first article in The Guardian.

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Right to Roam Movement, England: a human rights case study

I wrote this essay for a Masters Degree course in Human Rights, Peace & Justice, in November 2024. It explores the idea that public access to nature should be a universal human right, for the health of both people and the environment. It was inspired by the book Wild Service, which you can read my reviews of here.

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Peacebuilding Ecology and Personal Transformation in Colombia

This Masters dissertation examines bottom-up peacebuilding in Colombia from the perspective that ecological principles apply to human society.

University of Sydney, 2023

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Peace Profile: Dunna

I wrote this after completeing a Graduate Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies. It’s a profile of an organisation in Colombia called Dunna, run by my brilliant peacebuilding/yoga colleagues.

In Colombia, a land that knows too well the price of war, a bold compassionate peace building goal is becoming a reality…

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From War to Peace

Published in Australian Yoga Life, 2009.

The Tasmanian’s War Veterans’ yoga group met weekly from 1992 - 2023. In this article I tell the story of how yoga transformed lives that were shattered by war.