Formerly known as ALDES, LibSTEMM aims to bridge the gap between scientists and politicians; putting evidence based policies at the heart of our party.


Progress on tackling Climate Change and reaching broader sustainability goals continues to be inadequate. In order to get a grip of this problem, data and its use in tracking our progress (or lack of) will be vital. Several technology and service providers are emerging with useful tools for tracking our climate and sustainability efforts. Liberals…

In a previous article I was scathing about this government’s approach to education – a regressive insistence on churning out compliant automatons while employers demand creative, self-directed and specialised workers. But in their approach is a logic – that learners all need to be calibrated to a common criteria. This plays out in a national curriculum –…

As a child of the 80’s, the environment was constantly on my mind. We had the hole in the Ozone Layer, letting in the sun’s rays and giving people cancer. As a Cub Scout, I helped manually crush drinks cans for the apparently new concept of recycling. There was the growing Greenhouse Effect, of course,…