The building is gorgeous from every angle. The five-story structure on Monash University’s Clayton Campus houses 30 classrooms, including a 360-person capacity lecture hall. Since construction finished in February 2020, it has won at least nine separate awards for its sustainable design that incorporates solar and passive systems to create ultra-low energy demand. The result is a sparkling feat of architecture and sustainable engineering, the pride of one of Australia’s most prestigious universities, which has positioned itself at the cutting edge of research on subjects like climate, ecology and sustainability.
The building is also named for the country’s biggest domestic gas producer, Woodside Energy, a company aggressively pursuing multi-billion-dollar gas megaprojects at a time when the World Meteorological Organization has warned that global average temperatures are on track to reach 2C warming by the end of the decade.
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“Students say: ‘I’ll meet you at Woodside.’ Or: ‘I’ve got a class at 2 at Woodside’ and do not know what it is named after. That’s greenwashing at its finest.. Students at Australia’s biggest university do not think ‘Woodside’ and associate it with the biggest fossil fuel company in the country that is drilling off the Pilbara.”
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Among the keynote speakers was Tim Wilson, then a former conservative Coalition MP who would later re-take his seat by defeating climate-conscious Independent incumbent Zoe Daniel in the 2025 election. Wilson, the former head of the Monash student association during his undergraduate studies, previously served as the Director of Climate Change Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs, a right-wing Australian think tank that is hostile to the science of climate change and environmental regulation. In that role—one not specified on Wilson’s LinkedIn—he promoted the work of climate deniers.
I wonder how many of his constituents know about this side of him, seeing as he's touted by many as being on the "progressive" side of the Liberal party.
This article is a good demonstration for me of how much difference a stable income makes for the ability to be effective in your aims. And i disagree with so much of what they do. They're so effective at crushing/postponing meaningful climate action.
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Inside the Fight to Get Australia’s Monash University to Divorce Fossil Fuels for Good
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I wonder how many of his constituents know about this side of him, seeing as he's touted by many as being on the "progressive" side of the Liberal party.
This article is a good demonstration for me of how much difference a stable income makes for the ability to be effective in your aims. And i disagree with so much of what they do. They're so effective at crushing/postponing meaningful climate action.