I AM HAPPY as a clam but disturbed that basically no (now just a few) Republican senators had the decency to extend a congratulations. The sad thing about this election is that in an America that I thought I grew up in where we respected the rule of law, and sought to
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Eden-Monaro election — climate emergency who will help us?
Kotvojs just quotes Coalition stats. Renewables will mean jobs. I NEARLY CHOKED on my weeties when I read Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs claim that “the Government’s (climate change) strategy is working, as Australia’s emissions are falling”. Selectively quoting from the latest update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Kotvojs claims “Last year,
Canberra plans next kangaroo kill as bushfires wipe out wildlife
WHAT EXCELLENT TIMING by the ACT government! When it is reported that a billion native animals have perished in the bushfires (so far in the 2019–20 bushfires), the ACT government is again seeking contract shooters to carry out the Territory’s 2020 annual ‘cull’ and over the next four years too. CAPTION: “Hey
State of dissent
THAT OLDER CANBERRANS might be engaged in Extinction Rebellion protests is unsurprising, as it merely represents another phase of developed issue awareness. For many senior Australians it will represent a continuation of an earlier involvement in university student movements, 1970–71 moratorium marches or 1971–74 Green Bans to protect areas of Sydney. Maturity
Victoria scrapes bottom of the barrel on wildlife management
IN THE FIRST WEEK of October, the Victorian Labor government continued its unenlightened and colonial-looking wildlife policies — bowing to the most hidebound of the rural community and other commercial interests and loud demands from National Party politicians. A petfood trade targeting kangaroos has started in Victoria. These animals were almost
Right to Farm Bill: more time in jail for peaceful protestors than for violent criminals
Is this what we want? PEOPLE WILL FACE more time in jail for peaceful protest than for grievous bodily harm if the government’s Right to Farm Bill becomes law. The bill provides for three-year prison terms for protesters while the penalty for permanently or seriously disfiguring another person is a maximum of
The Nationals – kill this, save that, log River Red Gums, clear natives, now jobs good, formerly cut them…
NSW AGRICULTURE MINISTER, Marshal, published a regulation encouraging landowners to regard deer as feral animals, with potential to destroy habitat and impede farming/stocking practices on private land. This regulation was introduced courtesy the Game and Feral Animal Control Act. As adorable as deer (Bambi) images may be there appears little ministerial reservation
Letter: Monaro’s Barilaro grapples with Murray-Darling
STRUTTING HIS STUFF lest he suffer relevance deprivation, Deputy Premier, Barilaro, despite not attending the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Ministerial Council, decided the plan was “untenable”. Years into the “plan”, in his second term, a Damascene moment of enlightenment suddenly revealed to him (and presumably his government) that NSW is in the
Letter: Ratepayers, environment lose as EDE contractor goes into administration
REMINISCENT OF THE ALBATROSS in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s (1798) The Rime of the ancient Mariner, the burden of the EDE’s contract implosion will be difficult to shake. This failure will push posterity’s ratepayers’ burden well beyond the $86m, now projected, considerably beyond $50m originally “sold”. Adding to embarrassment is the fact, now
