Rosie interviews Dr Jeremy Walker about the recent Australian Senate Select Committee Inquiry on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy (2025), including his written and in person submission to the Inquiry.
Dr Walker is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. He’s a member and past director of the Climate Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC) at UTS, and a research fellow of the Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University, and the International Climate Social Science Network based at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.
With two decades of research into the Atlas Network informing his submission, Dr. Walker sheds light on the secretive world of climate misinformation and disinformation. The links below are well worth a look:
Link to Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy, with access to submissions, documents, Hansard and video:
Dr Jeremy Walker’s submission is no. 243. Note that the “additional information” is archival evidence regarding the origin and early sponsorship of Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies (CIS).
The full report of the Senate Select Committee:
Video from the Senate committee’s hearings on 16/02/2026
Note that Jeremy Walker appears at 10.37 am (in between evidence from Meta and Coal Australia - well worth watching as well!):
https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Read_Listen/ParlView/video/4334923
Hansard transcript of Jeremy Walker's testimony at the hearing is here:
The Senate inquiry gets great context and writeups by the ABC’s Gareth Hutchens:
Jeremy also spoke about the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG) and their report, The Climate Disinformation War: How to fight back for Australia's democracy and security.
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