Editorials and Opinions
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Towards a national cultural policy
Museum Director Frank Howarth asks "What is ‘culture’?" in this foreword to Explore magazine (summer 2011).
Kava – ‘pacific’ gift to the world?
By enforcing a ban on kava, are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater? asks anthropologist Kirk Huffman.
By strategy
Director of the Australian Museum Frank Howarth calls for the media to stop giving air to ‘the shrinking number of increasingly shrill climate change deniers’ in this editorial from Explore magazine.
Pacific land alienation
Land alienation is a problem not just in Papua New Guinea but across Melanesia, and it has the potential to have a catastrophic affect on Melanesian society, according to one of the region's most experienced anthropologists, Museum Research Associate Kirk Huffman.
Knowing the Collections audit report
There have been various media stories in the past few days concerning the Museum's collections. These stories relate to the recommendations of the Audit Office of NSW in the report Knowing the Collections: Australian Museum, released on 1 September 2010. Read on for further clarification and information.
Statement on Climate Change
In its role as a leading scientific institution, the Australian Museum recognizes that climate change poses a serious environmental, economic and social threat to our current way of life and to the security of future generations across the globe.
Fiddling while the Reef dissolves….
An opinion piece by Australian Museum Director, Frank Howarth A lot has been said lately about the impact of sea level rise on coastal suburbs, and on low lying coral islands, but there is a more insidious threat to coral islands than rising oceans.
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