Glenn Mitchell

Environmental Justice in Australia: When the RATS Became IRATE

Environmental justice is a concept used in the United States to describe and analyse environmental politics. That concept also has application outside the country of its origin. In Australia the case study of a dispute between residents, industry and government in the town of Port Kembla provides an example of how environmental justice can be given specific meaning in a local context. Observations of the ‘politics’ of an environmental dispute are made.

Franken Foods or Smart Foods? A New Language for Biotechnology?

tory of policy development, in agbiotech in Australia. This will include a summary of work being done here in the area of social, legal and ethical aspects of agbiotech. The paper, as well as proposing research questions that need to be addressed in this area, will suggest that a new language, of both words and ideas, is needed to bridge discipline gaps and bring light to the debate on biotechnology.