Parliamentary Briefing

A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE

Parliament House Canberra
21 March 2011

OPEN BRIEFING

The Hot Science-Global Citizens Research team presented at Parliament House a summary of new research on communicating and managing climate change, with a particular emphasis on the views and opinions of ordinary Australians on climate change policy directions and their roles in decision-making. The event was attended by over 60 people, including Kelvin Thomson, MP, Adam Bandt, MP and Mark Dreyfus QC, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.

A video recording of the event will be available here shortly.

Topics included:

• New input from humanities and social sciences on how to communicate climate change and generate positive actions

• How to handle controversies and uncertainties around climate change

• Tapping the opinions and beliefs of ordinary Australians on climate change issues and bringing them into policy processes

• Promoting robust debate and culturally intelligent policies on climate change

• Exploring potential roles for museums and other cultural institutions in this process

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Program

Communicating Climate Change Opening Remarks to the A Climate for Change Parliamentary Briefing

Kelvin Thomson MP, Federal Member for Wills

Introducing the ARC Linkage project: Hot Science Global Citizens: the agency of the museum sector in climate change interventions
Chief Investigator, Dr Fiona Cameron, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Dispositions to Change

Associate Professor Brett Neilson, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Communicating Climate Change: Communicating the science, warts and all

Professor Bob Hodge, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

What does 'public opinion' really say about climate change?

Professor David Karoly, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

Listening to citizens on climate change

Dr Juan Francisco Salazar, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney

Australians' views on climate change policy and processes

Dr Fiona Cameron, Senior Research Fellow; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney and researchers Dr Ben Dibley and Dr Anne Newstead

Collaborative problem solving as key to robust policies

Professor Lyn Carson, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney and Dallas Rogers, Ph.D researcher

Response and Summation
Mr Adam Bandt, MP
The Hon Mark Dreyfus QC, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency