Tim Flannery

Tim Flannery, Australian palaeontologist and mammalogist who led the team confirming two marsupials alive in New Guinea. He recounts fossil clues and local sightings that proved survival. Hear about a newly identified glider with monogamous habits and tree gardening, and a pygmy long-fingered possum whose elongated digit extracts grubs. Conservation threats and Indigenous cultural ties are also discussed.

Tim Flannery, paleontologist, climate advocate and author, argues for reimagining Bentham’s Panopticon to hold the powerful to account. He explores tribalism, social cohesion, geoengineering risks, justice beyond prisons, empathy with dislocated communities, boosting renewables while avoiding fatalism, and rebuilding trust, fun and local resilience to strengthen democracy.