
Nic Seton on the political power of parents
As a parent of two kids with a background in environmental campaigning, Nic Seton knows that while parents are a powerful constituency for progress on climate, they’re usually so flat out managing everything at home and work there’s little time for anything else. In 2021 he became the CEO of Australian Parents for Climate Action, an organisation whose goal is to organise and support parents' push for stronger climate policies at both a local and national level. Founded in 2019 by six mums living around Australia, their membership base now includes 17, 000 parents who together are proving to be an unstoppable force for climate action.

Tony Albert on the overlap between art and activism
After the horrific bushfire season of 2019-20, conceptual artist Tony Albert invited audiences to rejuvenate the landscape differently. One that considered the effects of colonisation in both the environment and for those who had lived here for thousands of years. Titled ‘Healing Land, Remembering Country’, it was commissioned for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, inside a greenhouse on Cockatoo Island (a former prison). Albert asked audiences to write an alternative narrative for children and young people who are incarcerated in Australia onto paper filled with Kangaroo grass seeds, before being planted back into the earth as a healing, holistic rejuvenation project.
