Quentin Grafton is a highly published and cited Professor of Economics, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance (since 2010), and an Australian Laureate Fellow (since 2020) at the Australian National University. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, and the recipient of global and Australian honours and research awards, including the Eureka Science Prize for Water Research and Innovation. He founded the Global Water Forum, the world’s first blog exclusively devoted to water, and is its Executive Editor.
In 2019 he established the Water Justice Hub, whose mission is to respond to water injustice and to promote both ‘voice’ and truth-telling in relation to water. As its Convenor, he has worked with diverse communities across Australia to collaboratively promote sustainability and water (including climate and environment) justice.
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2024 Annual Lecture: Katie Holmes
State Library Theatrette
328 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The cycle of drought and flooding rains provides a dramatic stage for the history of environmental change in the Murray Darling Basin. It is also the backdrop for much of...
Kate Fitz-Gibbon – Our National Crisis: Violence Against Women & Children (Gleebooks, Sydney)
Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales
In conversation with Lucy Turnbull Violence against women and children is a national crisis. Nearly a decade has passed since family violence was first declared a national emergency in 2015,...
Dave Witty, Inala Cooper and Iola Mathews speaking at the Mountain Writers’ Festival
Mountview Theatre
56 Smith St, Macedon, VIC, Australia
Visit the Mountain Writers' Festival to hear Dave Witty on The Love of Trees, Inala Cooper on Treaty and Iola on Community Resilience, Climate Emergency, and the Power of Storytelling.
2024 Annual Lecture: Katie Holmes
State Library Theatrette 328 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe cycle of drought and flooding rains provides a dramatic stage for the history of environmental change in the Murray Darling Basin. It is also the backdrop for much of...
Kate Fitz-Gibbon – Our National Crisis: Violence Against Women & Children (Gleebooks, Sydney)
Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South WalesIn conversation with Lucy Turnbull Violence against women and children is a national crisis. Nearly a decade has passed since family violence was first declared a national emergency in 2015,...
Dave Witty, Inala Cooper and Iola Mathews speaking at the Mountain Writers’ Festival
Mountview Theatre 56 Smith St, Macedon, VIC, AustraliaVisit the Mountain Writers' Festival to hear Dave Witty on The Love of Trees, Inala Cooper on Treaty and Iola on Community Resilience, Climate Emergency, and the Power of Storytelling.
