Margareta Windisch

Margareta Windisch has worked as an educator in community services and social work programs in the TAFE and higher education sector for the last decade. She has been engaged in many social justice and human rights campaigns over the years and is particularity passionate about climate justice and women's rights. Currently, Margareta is a PhD candidate at Monash University, focusing on heatwaves and gendered social vulnerability. @RebelGretel

Articles by Margareta Windisch:

25 January 201920 March 2019

The right to be cool, even during a heatwave

Margareta Windisch

Heatwave disasters are not as publicly dramatic and noisy as bushfires, storms or floods and the human catastrophe tends to unfold in isolation and in private homes, behind closed doors. Heatwaves are infamously labelled ‘silent and invisible killers of silenced and invisible people’. Deaths are heavily concentrated among the elderly, with chronic illness, gender, poverty and social isolation other key contributing factors.