Angus Dalton
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March 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
You can get in touch at angus.dalton@smh.com.au or angusdalton@proton.me. Happy to speak anonymously if you wish. Thank you!
I did my best to capture what it’s like in these communities as the flood risk returned again, alongside incredible photographers Danielle Smith, Nick Moir (who administered first aid to the soldiers in the military truck crash) and Louise Kennerley. You can read some of that reportage here:
March 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I did my best to capture what it’s like in these communities as the flood risk returned again, alongside incredible photographers Danielle Smith, Nick Moir (who administered first aid to the soldiers in the military truck crash) and Louise Kennerley. You can read some of that reportage here:
In the towns I visited, insurance is impossible to afford. Residents demand more dams, levee wall raises, anything to stem the damage from yet another mutant weather catastrophe. Ever since the big flood, Coraki artist Sandra Taylor told me, “Every hill is holy”.
March 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In the towns I visited, insurance is impossible to afford. Residents demand more dams, levee wall raises, anything to stem the damage from yet another mutant weather catastrophe. Ever since the big flood, Coraki artist Sandra Taylor told me, “Every hill is holy”.
Climate change is making cyclones hit harder, further south, possibly slowing them down so they dump more rain and increase flood risk, as we saw with Alfred, according to a rapid attribution analysis.
March 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Climate change is making cyclones hit harder, further south, possibly slowing them down so they dump more rain and increase flood risk, as we saw with Alfred, according to a rapid attribution analysis.
Many of them were “frozen”, unable to move, struggling to fathom a possible repeat of the 2022 flood devastation.
March 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Many of them were “frozen”, unable to move, struggling to fathom a possible repeat of the 2022 flood devastation.
“I don’t think this has been experienced much yet on this continent: the recurring big, big climate disaster. That’s the thing we’re going to have to get used to," said Lismore social worker AJ Jensen, who had just helped evacuate locals from low-lying homes.
March 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
“I don’t think this has been experienced much yet on this continent: the recurring big, big climate disaster. That’s the thing we’re going to have to get used to," said Lismore social worker AJ Jensen, who had just helped evacuate locals from low-lying homes.
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@liammannix.bsky.social and I are running a mini-series of deep dives into the pillars of health for Examine, our science column (which you can get for free in your inbox!).
Here's Liam's fab evolutionary look at why our bodies penalise us for not exercising: www.smh.com.au/national/why...
Here's Liam's fab evolutionary look at why our bodies penalise us for not exercising: www.smh.com.au/national/why...
Why your body evolved to penalise you for not exercising – even if you hate it
Why would evolution produce an organism that must spend 150 minutes a week doing things like running on a treadmill to maintain health?
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January 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
@liammannix.bsky.social and I are running a mini-series of deep dives into the pillars of health for Examine, our science column (which you can get for free in your inbox!).
Here's Liam's fab evolutionary look at why our bodies penalise us for not exercising: www.smh.com.au/national/why...
Here's Liam's fab evolutionary look at why our bodies penalise us for not exercising: www.smh.com.au/national/why...
I’m on the case, Jenna! Wild scenes ⚡️
January 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’m on the case, Jenna! Wild scenes ⚡️