"We had many years of being outward to the world, of being the perfect normal couple and then suddenly we had the experience of what it's like to be in a same-sex relationship."

"Australia is the land of drought and flooding rains, and in a recent paper we’ve shown that’s been the case for more than 500 years."

"“The national finalists are an extraordinary group of people whose impact ranges from medical and scientific endeavours to volunteering, human rights advocacy, education, sustainability action and more,”"

"“We have this traditional model where scientists go off and do their work, write a paper and publish it in a journal and hope that somebody who needs it picks it up and is able to make some kind of decision based on the information. But it doesn’t work anymore because so many of the problems we have now are very urgent, and we need more efficient ways to connect science to policy.”"

"“I’ve come from being interested in understanding the fundamentals of ecology to thinking more about how humans interact with ecosystems and how we can better connect knowledge to decision making,”"

"“Those forests are now effectively gone because of climate change. It makes me sad when I think my kids won’t have that same experience and get to see those environments the way I did.”"

"“The magical experience of diving in a kelp forest is like flying through a jungle surrounded by an amazing diversity of life,”"

"“These awards reflect the times, and nowadays hopefully recognise how important science has been, and continues to be, not only in understanding what’s changing but also how we can respond to those changes,”"

"The magnitude and rate of climate change together with associated risks, depends strongly on the near-term mitigation and adaptation actions."

"Human activities are the highest contributors to climate change."

"Trees and corals are sensitive to their environments. For example, trees grow less in dry years and more in wet years."

"Even as people change the climate by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, variability will continue to play a large role in Australia’s climate."

"At the start of southern summer it was predicted that bleaching would be largely restricted to central and southern parts of the GBR."

"We know that global climate is changing due to human actions, climate has changed in the past but not at the current rate and with present human population and heavily impacted global temperatures."

"If we only listened! few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go inti the making of our climate and weather, would be prepared to admit that the activities of man could have any influence on phenomena of so vast a scale. In the following paper i hope to show that such an influence is not only possible but us actually occurring at the present time."

"While bleaching surveys are ongoing, a distinct pattern is emerging, whereby the severity of bleaching declines from north to south."

"Improving our understanding of leaf oyster reefs requires more comprehensive mapping of the remaining populations and gaining a better understanding of their life cycle."

"Our concern extends beyond the survival and protection of the single species, to the entire ecosystem the leaf oysters underpin."

"Before industrial times, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere were 280 parts per million. So a doubling of CO₂ will occur at 560 parts per million."

"If we want a greater chance than 66% of limiting warming to two degrees, we would need to emit even less carbon dioxide. Conversely, if we accepted a lower probability of limiting the warming to two degrees, the budget would be higher."

"A carbon budget is like a household budget. You only have so much money to spend. How you choose to spend and invest your money will determine the available budget for your retirement and the legacy you provide for future generations."

"We have already committed the planet to a certain amount of warming due to past carbon emissions. But efforts to reduce emissions now and over the next few decades will critically affect the degree of future warming."

"Climate change has already altered the extreme weather we experience in Australia and will continue to do so over the coming years."

"When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate change, what does that mean? What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and what do they do?"

""Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the concentrations of carbon dioxide [and other greenhouse gases. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.'"

"So should we be using climate models? We are climate scientists from Australia’s Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, and we believe the answer is a firm yes."

"Climate models are one of many tools scientists use to understand how the climate changed in the past and what it will do in future."

"[T]he rules are different for you and always will be; that you must be composed at all times and never scrap in the muck laid down by your opponents because your moral purity is measured differently to theirs."

"Ford’s all-consuming hatred for men is absolutely dripping. She screams, “The framing of criminal acts like these as being somehow the result of depression or financial struggles or just a lack of appropriate emotional support cannot help but infest the circumstances with an air of sympathy and understanding.” She slams “traditional notions of masculinity”, rants about the “patriarchy” and then Lifeline’s number is listed at the end. The fact Ford blankly refuses to comprehend motivational factors contributing to human beings wanting out of life purely highlights why she was never, and should never be, given a platform to speak at any events by any suicide prevention organisation. Ever."

"Ms Ford was recently called out for signing a copy of her book with 'have you killed any men today? And if not, why not?'."

"Could men just shut the fuck up?"

"You can be told 20 days in (a) row that you should be raped and sodomised and beaten and strung up and thrown out and taught a lesson, but if on the 21st day you turn around and make a joke about firing men into the sun using a cannon, you are a scold who hates men and is teaching her son that he's a rapist."

"I am very much pro-life. I'm pro the life of women who have lived for years as opposed to cells that have lived for weeks."

"I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot."

"The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking."