Antone Martinho-Truswell
Antone Martinho-Truswell is a zoologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a research affiliate of the University of Sydney.
- Opinion
- Road safety
The red light we should be allowed to drive through: My gift to Australia
There’s plenty Australia could teach my birth country, but here’s a Californian road rule to liberate my fellow Aussie citizens.
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- Pets
Don’t bell Australia’s cats. Just make it illegal to own one
It is rightly illegal to own or import a fox, and yet we allow the breeding and selling of cats, which do about 10 times more damage.
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- Opinion
- Wildlife
From nuisance to mascot, the true history of Sydney’s bin chicken
The much-derided white ibis wasn’t always a city-slicker. But now it calls Sydney home, a rare case of a metropolis being the saviour of a threatened species.
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- Opinion
- Trams
Sydney’s surprise resemblance to Venice has a lesson for us all
Venice’s brutal modernisers did not want to rebuild their collapsed bell tower. The city persevered, as should Sydney with its long-lost people movers, the trams.
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- Opinion
- City life
I’m a zoologist who cycles in Sydney, and I’ve had a stroke of genus
It’s a sad day when Pedestrianus obliviata collides with Cyclospinus rex.
- Antone Martinho-Truswell