Belinda Smith

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2,440 appearances 25 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

Belinda Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Science Show · Pioneers past and present, and fiddling with life brings a heavy caution · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

I quite like going, because they have such a good vibe, but also the placards, some of them are quite funny and really imaginative and quite beautifully put together.

So a few of my favourites are, like the oceans, we rise, keep earth clean, it's not Uranus, don't be a fossil fool, and so bad, even the introverts are here.

Yeah.

nice ones out there.

There's probably loads more in that book Future Right Now, which was launched last week.

Annabelle Smith, another Belle Smith, with her poem, Hope for Mountain Pygmy Possums.

Robyn, when Annabelle is old enough for uni, I wonder what the courses on offer will look like.

I'm sure they'll be quite different to when you or even I went to uni, which was a couple of decades ago now.

Because it seems like whole specialties are disappearing from campuses, like geology.

You covered this on the Science Show last year.

Over the past decade, the popularity of geosciences in Australia has waned and the sector is crying out for graduates, yet geology departments are shrinking or closing altogether.

We love celebrating the nature of Australia here on The Science Show.

And you know, Robyn, almost 90% of known plant species in Australia grow nowhere else on Earth.

And to really celebrate this incredible biodiversity, ABC Science is getting into wildflowers during National Science Week this year.

I think my favourite has to be the bladderworts.

Any plant that can slurp up mosquito larvae into submerged bladders like tiny vacuum cleaners is fine by me.

Do you have a fave?

Well, I have some good news for you, Robyn.

So 2,000 seeds of the spidery wattle have been put away in the South Australian Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank in the United Kingdom.

But there are calls for the spidery wattle to be added to the red list of threatened species.

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