Client: Environment Victoria — Environment Victoria is based in Melbourne and is an independent not-for-profit organization that has been campaigning on environmental issues since 1969. They now focus on campaigning for a safe climate, healthy rivers, and sustainable living. In 2019, following the intense 2018–2019 Australian bushfire season, Environment Victoria asked me to design…

The concept of free will and whether we have it or not has been debated by philosophers for at least the past two thousand years (O’Connor & Franklin, 2022). Free will is broadly defined as having a significant degree of control over one’s actions. For example, the degree to which…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an international body that collates the world’s peer-reviewed science on climate change to form a cohesive picture of how we are changing the climate of the planet. The IPCC’s latest report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, assesses the impacts of…

Client: Greenpeace Australia Pacific — Greenpeace Australia Pacific is the regional office of the global environmental campaigning organization, Greenpeace. Internationally, Greenpeace has existed for over 50 years and in that time has become one of the most well-known environmental organizations. Their name suggests two of their core values. The first part of their name, “green,”…

(Ethics / Moral Philosophy) — Peter Singer is an Australian utilitarian philosopher who is well-known for his work in bioethics and for creating some of the foundational ideas behind the animal advocacy movement (Duignan, n.d.). A chapter of Singer’s (2011, p. 48) book, Practical Ethics, argues for the principle of equality to be applied to…

Client: Say Yes Coalition — 2021 marked exactly one decade since the Say Yes Australia campaign. This was a campaign organized in response to the carbon price legislation that was proposed in 2011 by the Gillard Government to tackle climate change. It involved making polluters pay a price for each tonne of carbon that they…

(Developmental Psychology) — Video games have become a popular pass-time for Australians. A recent study revealed that 90% of our homes have some form of gaming device in them, and that 66% of us play video games (Brand et al., 2019). Given that our youth are some of the most ardent consumers of…

Client: Australian Marine Conservation Society — Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) is a national charity that is dedicated to preserving healthy oceans and protecting the wildlife that call them home. The AMCS head office is located in my own home city of Brisbane, and they have worked tirelessly for over 55 years on campaigns to establish…

(Philosophy of Science) — Hume’s problem of induction is widely considered to be unsolvable, despite many attempts by philosophers to solve it (Henderson, 2020). In the following essay, I will describe Hume’s (1739; 1748) problem of induction and how it demonstrates that using previous experience is insufficient as a means of providing justification for…