Brennan Justice Talks 2024 #2 – Climate Change, Habitat & Homelessness: The Koalas documentary

WHEN

3 April 2025
Thursday
6.00pm - 7.00pm Australia/Sydney

WHERE

Online

COST

Free admission

RSVP

(UTS student login required)

In conversation with Dr Georgia Wallace-Crabbe and Cerin Loane

For this Justice Talk we are joined The Koalas filmmaker and director, Dr Georgia Wallace-Crabbe and Cerin Loane, Special Counsel, Policy and Law Reform (Environmental Defenders Office) to discuss issues raised in the film about habitat loss, the protection land for wildlife and local environmental issues.

Documentary film The Koalas sheds light on a disturbing truth: the very entities entrusted with safeguarding our natural treasures are contributing to the demise of these emblematic creatures.

On the East Coast of Australia, where ancient forests meet the urban fringe, koalas are facing unprecedented challenges. As climate change intensifies, wildfires, floods, and extreme weather events wreak havoc on both wildlife and human infrastructure.

The Koalas documentary reveals stories of struggle, resilience, and the threatened extinction of an iconic species.

This event is for currently enrolled UTS students only.

Why study Law at UTS?

You’ll gain work-ready skills and learn how to ethically use law and new technologies to create positive social change.

Learn more

Meet the panelists

Dr. Georgia Wallace-Crabbe

Georgia is a filmmaker who has collaborated on documentaries, dramas, and television series. She produced films such as CULTIVATING MURDER -on the murder of a NSW environment officer in 2014 and THE KOALAS (2024) a feature about the threatened extinction of koalas by 2050, shown nationally in cinemas and at international festivals.

Georgia has made films in China, France, India and Australia and is interested in intercultural and interdisciplinary stories and the Anthropocene. For her Doctorate of Creative Arts at Wollongong Uni she made a 5-screen video, The Earth and the Elements (2016), exploring the Australia- China resources export relationship in relation to climate change and the concept of interconnectedness, using philosophy of Daoism as a conceptual framework.

As well as digital journalism and VR documentary, she teaches in Interdisciplinary Design and Film and Media production at UNSW, and Creative Industries at JMC Academy.

Cerin Loane

Special Counsel, Policy and Law Reform (Environmental Defenders Office)

Cerin is a policy and law reform lawyer currently working at the Environmental Defenders Office. Her work includes writing law reform proposals, engaging with government on draft policy and legislation, and providing legal advice to EDO clients on a range of environmental issues, including biodiversity conservation, environment and planning and natural resource management.

Previously, Cerin worked as an in-house lawyer for government, for a non-profit human rights organisation in Mongolia and as policy and research coordinator with the NSW Nature Conservation Council.

Cerin was the lead author of EDO’s report Protecting koalas in the Sydney Basin bioregion - Strengthening NSW laws to protect the trees that koalas call home.

Law students engaged in the Brennan Program can read and reflect on this report towards the Award.

Earning points

The Brennan Team will apply points internally upon attending the event. You must be registered in the Brennan Program to gain points formally.

Should you no longer be able to attend, please cancel your registration to allow another Brennanite to benefit from the event.

Still want to forward communications to your personal email? To get around this new security measure, you can set up a Rule in your UTS student email account to direct emails to your preferred email address.