Submissions to Government

Submissions by Dr Anne S. Smith on behalf Rainforest Reserves Australia

Dr Anne S. Smith is a volunteer with Rainforest Reserves Australia and has generously lent her time and expertise to make submissions to protect biodiversity.

She is an Environmental Research Strategist with a PhD focused on building resilience, wellbeing, and capacity in crisis-impacted communities. Her work spans environmental systems analysis, strategic planning, and advocacy, with a strong focus on protecting Australia’s unique habitats and biodiversity from industrial-scale destruction masquerading as “green” progress.

She has led detailed investigations into the overlooked environmental toll of wind, solar, and battery installations from forest fragmentation to heat island effects and mass species displacement. Her research consistently exposes the failure of Australia’s renewable rollout to account for full lifecycle emissions, land degradation, and carbon mismanagement, highlighting how inaccurate carbon accounting has become a smokescreen for corporate gain.

Dr Smith continues to call for policy grounded in truth, science, and stewardship not ideology. She warns that the current energy experiment is not only economically reckless, but ecologically irreversible.