"News From The Future" with Dr Catherine Ball The Future Is Already Here.... Meet The Humans At The Cutting Edge

We have dormant volcanoes in South Australia and Victoria, did you know? We aren’t specifically monitoring them either…
But volcanoes are more use to humans than being the location of a Bond villain’s lair- they harbour amazing stories and secrets of the magma we all float upon. Teresa likes to apply interrogation to any volcanic rocks she can get her hands on.
Can we learn more about our planet’s past in order to help us become an off-planet species? What do we need to know about the rock we are living on?
Check out Teresa’s work at UQ here: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/15355


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Ever eaten an Australian grown oyster? Was it from a fishery that also exports? How do we deregister pesticides that others have already banned? How do we protect farmers and workers from pesticide-related health problems?
No, this isn’t a review of Silent Spring by Rachel Carter, this is about the scientists trying to get better data and information about how pesticides behave in Australian ecosystems. Who carries the burden of proof around problematic pesticides? Why don’t we test for our domestic markets where we test for food that is exported?
Kirsten Benkendorff walks us through the Big P and what we need to do to support the scientists and communities that are collecting evidence about pesticide behaviour in their local environment.
Learn more about Kirsten here:
https://www.kirstenbenkendorffmarineresearch.au


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As we look to electrify Australia and scale the energy revolution we need to understand the composition of the Earth’s Crust soon, but where is the Taylor Swift of Geology? Maybe it’s Indrani on this week’s podcast episode.
A more accurate and higher resolution map of the Earth’s crust will be needed to have more efficient mining for the metals and minerals we need. A Digital Twin one could say? A 4D map? Cross pollinate this with new mining and clean up methodology; what is the future of the resources industry. And we aren’t talking fossil fuels.
Indrani is a passionate and interesting person, enjoy this podcast and you can follow her work at UNSW here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/indrani-mukherjee



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Half of the current voting population in Australia is 45+ years old, and this means that half of the current voting population in Australia will be retiring in the next 20 years, with the end of this decade taking the first wave of the tsunami. We have never had an ageing population like this before and won’t again.
What will this mean for the economy, and you personally? Would you make use of a family relocation grant? Will we need a UBI? and why have some countries started taking action where we appear to be sitting and doing nothing but spending more and more money?
And where is the technology-enablement? (hint: it is not scaled yet in Australia)
Find out more about Anne-Marie at Prime Life Partners
https://primelifepartners.com



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Welcome to the second episode of News From The Future!
Trish Kerin uses her platypus methodology to enable leaders to see risks in the systems.
But what is the future of disaster prevention and process safety in a technologically enabled world? Find out more on this podcast episode and learn more at:
https://leadlikekerin.com
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Mark Pesce is one of Australia’s most experienced tech futurists.
Connect with him at www.markpesce.com
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