Provocative insight and opinions from leading academics and researchers at the UNSW Faculty of Science.

Latest opinion piece:
 NSW speed cameras - safety or revenue raising? 

27 July 2011 Professor Raphael Grzebieta Professor of Road Safety at UNSW Lori Mooren Senior Research Fellow at UNSW The Auditor General’s review of speed cameras is a much welcome report. That is exactly what road safety experts want to see happening. Speed cameras must be all about road safety. The link between strong enforcement and reduction in fatalities and serious injuries is undeniable and scientifically proven. Read more...

Previous opinion pieces

Ducking and weaving: should we be hunting in Australia’s wetlands?
30 March 2011
Professor Richard Kingsford
Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, UNSW

The good, the bad and the ugly of tsunami science
21 January 2011
Professor James Goff
Australian Tsunami Research Centre and Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, UNSW

Skaife's killer proposal
17 June 2010
Lori Mooren
Senior Research Fellow, UNSW and member of UN Road Safety Collaboration
Professor Raphael Grzebieta
Chair of Road Safety, UNSW

An open letter to Mr Maurice Newman, Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
19 March 2010
Professor Michael Ashley
Department of Astrophysics

Wanted: more science and maths students
16 March 2010
Professor Merlin Crossley
Dean of Science

The sum of Australia's future
03 November 2009
Anthony Dooley
School of Mathematics and Statistics

Drivers have no right to speed
23 July 2009
Raphael Grzebieta
Injury Risk Management Research Centre

No time for climate change furphies
17 June 2009
Matt England
Climate Change Research Centre

Low carbon the only way to go
13 May 2009
Ben McNeil
Climate Change Research Centre

Science communication - the importance of evidence
24 March 2009 
Carol Oliver
Australian Centre for Astrobiology

Where did all the women go?
10 December 2008 
Tracey Rogers
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dead in the water: beach safety stalled by ignorance
14 November 2008 
Rob Brander
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

How I learned to stop worrying and love YouTube
22 September 2008 
Adam Micolich
School of Physics

Workplace bullying must be tackled
18 July 2008
Carlo Caponecchia
School of Risk and Safety Sciences

Bali or bust
15 May 2008
Matthew England
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (CEDL)

If trees could speak
11 April 2008
Bob Beale
Faculty of Science

Road safety gains may have stalled
3 April 2008
Raphael Grzebieta
Australasian College of Road Safety and UNSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre

Out of sight out of mind - floodplains
10 March 2008
Richard Kingsford
School of Biological Earch and Environmental Sciences (BEES)

Greenhouse solution myth, fallacy & spin 
21 February 2008
Mark Diesendorf
Institute of Environmental Studies (IES)

Green challenge for government 
12 December 2007
Richard Kingsford
School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES)

Australian Heritage Rivers: a major new policy proposal
9 July 2007
Richard Kingsford
School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES)

An addiction that fouls the air
16 January 2007
Ben McNeil
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (CEDL)