• 2: About Us
• 3: Members
  • 3.1: Mr Peter Cosier
  • 3.2: Prof Tim Flannery
  • 3.3: Dr Ronnie Harding
  • 3.4: Prof David Karoly
  • 3.5: Prof David Lindenmayer FAA
  • 3.6: Prof Hugh Possingham FAA
  • 3.7: Mr Robert Purves AM
  • 3.8: Dr Denis Saunders AM
  • 3.9: Prof Bruce Thom AM FIAG FTSE
  • 3.10: Dr John Williams
  • 3.11: Prof Mike Young FASSA
  • 3.12:
  • 3.13: FORMER MEMBERS
  • 3.14: Prof Peter Cullen AO FTSE
  • 3.15: Ms Leith Boully FAIC
• 4: Blueprints
  • 4.1: The Urgent Provision of Water
  • 4.2: Accounting for Nature
  • 4.3: Australia’s Climate is Changing Australia
  • 4.4: A New Model for Landscape Conservation in NSW
  • 4.5: Blueprint for a National Water Plan
  • 4.6: Blueprint for a Living Continent
  • 4.7: Optimising Carbon in the Australian Landscape
• 5: Recent Papers
• 6: Science Program
• 7: Contact Us

Prof Tim Flannery

BA (La Trobe), MSc (Monash), PhD (UNSW)

Expertise

• Evolutionary biology
• Climate change
• Paleontology
• Zoology

Background

• Chair, Copenhagen Climate Council
• Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
• Australian of the Year 2007
• Former Director, South Australian Museum
• Author of The Weather Makers, The Future Eaters, The Eternal Frontier, Throwim Way Leg and the controversial Quarterly Essay Beautiful Lies
• Former Chair, South Australian Premier's Science Council
• Former Chair, South Australian Sustainability Roundtable
• Director, Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Books

Flannery, Tim (2008) Now or Never. Sustainability for Australia. Quarterly Essay. Black Inc Publishing, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2007) An Explorer's Notebook. Essays on Life, History and Climate. Text Publishing Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2007) Where is Here? 300 Years of Exploring in Australia. Text Publishing, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2006). We Are The Weather Makers. The Story of Global Warming. Text Publishing, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2005) The Weather Makers: the history and future impact of climate change. Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2004) Country. Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (2004) Astonishing Animals. Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2003) Sailing Alone Around the World (edited & introduced). Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2003) Beautiful Lies. Population and Environment in Australia. Quarterly Essay 9, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2002) The Birth of Melbourne (edited & introduced). Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2002)The Life and Adventures of William Buckley (edited and introduced).Text, Melbourne

Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. & Hand, S. (2002) Prehistoric Mammals
of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution.
University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (2001) A Gap in Nature. Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2001) The Eternal Frontier: an ecological history of North America. Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2000)Terra Australis.The Journals of Matthew Flinders (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2000) The Birth of Sydney (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (2000) The Explorers (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (1997)Throwim Way Leg. Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, Tim (1997) Life and Adventures: John Nicol, Mariner (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, T.F., Martin, R., Szalay, A. & Schouten, P. (1996) Tree-
kangaroos: a curious natural history. Reed., Sydney.

Flannery, Tim (1996) 1788: Watkin Tench (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.

Flannery, T.F. (1995) Mammals of New Guinea (Revised Edition). Reed, Sydney.

Flannery, T.F. (1995) Mammals of the South West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Reed, Sydney.

Flannery, Tim (1994) The Future Eaters: an ecological history of the
Australasian lands and people. Reed, Sydney.

Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (1994) Possums of the World: a
monograph of the Phalangeroidea. Geo Productions, Sydney.

Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P. (1992) The Age of Dinosaurs in Australia. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney.

Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P. (1992) Australia's Inland Sea. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney.

Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P. (1990) Australia's Vanishing Mammals. Reader's Digest, Sydney.

Flannery, T.F. (1990) Mammals of New Guinea. Robert Brown & Associates, Carina.

Flannery, T.F. & Rodd, T. editors (1988) Australia's Wilderness Heritage (two volumes). Weldon Press, Sydney.

Archer, M. & Flannery, T.F. (1985) The Kangaroo. Weldon Press, Sydney.