Maxine Newlands

Dr Maxine Newlands (BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA) is a political scientist and policy analyst, currently based at the Australian Academy of Science.

Maxine is an advisor to governments and holds a number of roles with the Department of Climate change, Energy, Environment and Water; the United Nations Environment Program, Queensland Department of Environment and Science, the International Coral Reef Inititative and the Australian Political Studies Association, Environmental Politics and Policy specialist group.

Maxine is an Adjunct Principle Research Fellow at The Cairns Institute where she is Director of the Blue Humanities Lab. Maxine is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures, University of Queensland.

Current / previous leadership roles include

• Co-lead on the Reef Restoration and Adaptation, Regulatory subprogram
• Led author on the 2022 Scientific Consensus Statement on Reef water quality
• Founder of the Blue Humanities Lab, TCI
• Co-convenor of the Women of the Reef professional network
• Managment team member for the Australian Citizen Science Association

Media

Often quoted in the media, Maxine has been regular political correspondent for ABC North Queensland since 2020, and other media commentary can be found here.