LETHAL AND INHUMANE control of inconvenient wildlife (and its by-catch) is rife in Australia and regionally through government-sponsored campaigns that some people apply even in rural residential areas. 1080 is banned around the world except for a handful of countries and Australia and New Zealand top the list of users
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Poor parenting epidemic leading to ’emotionally abused’ kids, John Marsden says
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Miles Franklin award 2019: your guide to this year‘s ‘profoundly empathetic’ list
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Across the radar: neologism contest
ONCE AGAIN The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. The winners are: 1. Coffee (n): the person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted (adj): appalled over how much weight you have gained. 3. Abdicate (v):
Byron Bay influencers broadcast a life that is too good to be true — because it is
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Big $$ to offshore speculators selling Oz river water back to Coalition Govt
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Queanbeyan hall gets pork-baril treatment
John Barilaro, Don Harwin overruled expert advice on regional arts funding, documents reveal. Two senior NSW Government ministers ignored expert advice and approved unworthy projects in Coalition-held seats for part of a $100 million regional art fund ahead of the state election. Two of the projects were in Mr Barilaro's Monaro electorate, including
Video-of-the-week: Murray-Darling River crisis
Video-of-the-Week: Koalas driven to drink by climate change
> VIEW VIDEO (University of Sydney) The back-story ... 'They don't drop dead': Thirsty koalas flock to Blinky drinkers By Julie Power, Sydney Morning Herald September 14, 2018 WHEN A BRUTAL four-day heat wave killed 25 percent of the koala population near Gunnedah, NSW, in 2009, nobody knew why. Koalas were believed not to