November 2023 - Victoria & Space
Studying the night sky has a very long history in Victoria, from First Peoples' use of the stars for meteorology, navigation, and story-telling, through to measuring dark matter in Stawell, and everything in between. This month we look at the ongoing work in Victoria to further understand everything beyond Earth’s atmosphere, as well as how our changing climate is affecting glaciers, ice sheets and cloud formation in the Southern Ocean.
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We explore the great differences between the Indigenous and European view of the world. We have a need of Indigenous knowledge to heal our nation in many ways – to help counter the impact of climate change; to rescue our environment, both vegetation and wildlife; and to learn to live sustainably on our continent.
The problems that threaten our planet, how to identify them and how to prevent them. The task feels overwhelming, and it inevitably falls to science to fill the desperate need for evidence-based decision-making