We Have to Talk About the Weather

Hon Susan Close MP is the Deputy Premier of South Australia and the Minister for Climate, Environment and Water; Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science; and Minister for Defence and Space Industries.  Before entering parliament, Susan was an executive in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and played a key role in the establishment of the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary as a community advocate.

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University. He is also UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King's College, Cambridge. Frankopan is a member of the Advisory Board of the Sevgi Gönül Center for Byzantine Studies at Koç University, Istanbul. A Fellow of multiple Royal Societies, Frankopan is President of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs.

Dr Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer at the Australian National University. She served as a lead author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and is author of Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia. Joëlle has also contributed to The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg, and Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television and print. She has written several books, including the political biography The Fixer, on former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson, and Dark Victory, co-authored with David Marr. Her latest book is The Carbon Club.