Michael Bunce moves from Curtin U is to be chief scientist for the New Zealand Environmental Protection Agency. Professor Bunce is a Curtin professor of molecular and life sciences.

An Australian-based team receives an honourable mention in the University of California, Case Studies in the Environment 2018 essay award. R. M. Colvin (ANU), G Bradd Witt (Uni Queensland) and Justine Lacey (CSIRO) are  noted for “Using a community vote for wind energy development decision-making in King Island, Tasmania,” December 2018