Environment lost? Action urged on missing Tasmanian election issues

Tasmanian conservation and Aboriginal groups have condemned a lack of focus on the environment during the election campaign, and called on the major parties to use the last week to engage with long-term issues facing the state.

Lydia Hales

Lydia is a freelance science journalist and a staff reporter at The Medical Republic. She studied marine biology and zoology in Townsville, then a Master of Journalism in Melbourne. She worked for several years in science communication before working in Sydney as a medical reporter, and has recently returned home to Tasmania. Her writing has appeared in Guardian Australia, ABC Online, the South China Morning Post, Cosmos and Australian Geographic, and some creative writing anthologies. She also once had a poem published on a tree.