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Susan Metcalfe

Submission to the South Australia Select Committee Inquiry into the Hunting of Native Birds

Like most Australians, I find it incomprehensible that the cruel recreational activity of shooting native birds has been allowed to…

9 min readMay 19, 2023

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Submission to the South Australia Select Committee Inquiry into the Hunting of Native Birds

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Susan Metcalfe

Submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements

Like many other Victorians, I find it incomprehensible that this cruel recreational activity has been allowed to continue for so long.

14 min readMay 4, 2023

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Submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements

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Susan Metcalfe

Gunda and breaking down representations of non-human animals

Art is what we can’t understand. It contains things we can understand, but it also has something we can’t understand. You’re just watching…

8 min readApr 7, 2021

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Gunda and breaking down representations of non-human animals

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Susan Metcalfe

Women are tired.

In recent weeks, all over social media Australian women have been detailing, sometimes for the first time, horrific rapes, gang rapes…

4 min readApr 5, 2021

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Susan Metcalfe

“These are extremely fresh bubs… their tail is still curled, it’s just this wobbly floppy thing…

At a whale conference held last month in Queensland’s Hervey Bay (Butchulla country), researchers and tourism operators gathered to…

15 min readNov 27, 2019

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“These are extremely fresh bubs… their tail is still curled, it’s just this wobbly floppy thing…

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Susan Metcalfe

The behaviour of climbers at Uluru is the story, not the closure

When I visited Uluru last month, the ugly politics surrounding the imminent climb closure was at its peak in the media. But what I…

5 min readAug 24, 2019

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The behaviour of climbers at Uluru is the story, not the closure

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Susan Metcalfe

Susan Metcalfe

writer (The Pacific Solution 2010, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, ABC, Guardian, Metro magazine, and many other media and online outlets). Twitter @susanamet

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