Sometimes the world shifts and dangerous ideas enter into the mainstream, such as the concepts that humanity may not have free reign with the world's resources, that mandatory detention of asylum-seekers might not be appropriate policy, that our environmental issues are not being solved by those tasked with their solution. Chris Pash, Margot O’Neill and Nicola Markus discuss their books of activism and social change with Marian Wilkinson.
CHRIS PASH (LOCAL) CHRIS PASH was a cadet journalist at the Albany Advertiser in 1977 when activists launched Greenpeace's first direct action in Australia. It was his on-the-spot reporting of the experiences of both whalers and activists during this time that inspired The Last Whale. After leaving Albany, he worked with Australian Associated Press as a reporter in Sydney, a staff correspondent in Papua New Guinea, the bureau chief in Adelaide and the editor-in-charge in Sydney. In 1995 Chris was the founding CEO of Asia Pulse, a joint regional venture of Asian news companies which pioneered the creation, aggregation and distribution of electronic content in the Asia-Pacific Region.
NICOLA MARKUS (LOCAL) NICOLA MARKUS is a conservationist, zoologist and writer interested in the role that the individual must play in environmental protection. Nicola has a rare perspective on the conservation challenges that confront our country. She has spent 15 years at the front-line of Australia's environmental conservation movement, with the World Wildlife Fund Australia and now in her current role as chief conservation officer with Bush Heritage Australia. Her first book, Wild Australia, was a collaboration with international wildlife photographer Theo Allofs. On Our Watch is her latest release.
MARGOT O'NEILL (LOCAL) MARGOT O’NEILL is a senior reporter with ABC TV's Lateline. She has been a journalist for 25 years in television, radio and newspapers here and overseas and has worked on a variety of ABC programs including Four Corners. Margot has twice won a Walkley Award including for Best Investigative Reporting and has also been awarded a UN Media Peace Award and the national Human Rights Award for TV reporting. She has been nominated three times for a Logie. Blind Conscience is her first book.
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