Preparing to testify at a NSW enquiry into the welfare and health of the state's kangaroos, Diane Smith and Greg Keightley again experienced first-hand the barbaric impacts of the Australian commercial kangaroo industry for skins and petfood or, in parallel, just for wildlife destruction — supported by various rural landholders and
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Aunty Ro speaks her pain at destruction of totem kangaroo
INDIGENOUS EDUCATOR AND writer Aunty Ro Mudyn Godwin, in June testified to a NSW parliamentary committee hearing on the welfare and health of the state’s kangaroos. Status quo welfare: very bad. She spoke of the personal impact and social cost of the state’s and indeed Australia’s, wholesale destruction of the national emblem, which
Region rep Barilaro ups attack on free speech
ABC MEDIA WATCH dissects, in the link below, the recent arrest of a producer for YouTube satirist Jordan Shanks, ‘Friendlyjordies’. The alleged crime is ‘stalking’ in regard to approaching member for Monaro John Barilaro multiple times with uncomfortable or cheeky questions. Barilaro has been at the receiving end of a barrage of
EV’s: choice and affordability? A local dealer shows how
In the second of his series on electric vehicles, Graham Franklin-Browne gives the Bulletin readership an exciting glimpse of what possibilities on the pre-owned market. Read on. HAVE YOU EVER wondered how you might get your backside into the driver’s seat of a reasonably priced electric vehicle? Around the world the EV
In this March edition of The District Bulletin
Eden-Monaro’s Kristy McBain reflects: Labor on climate targets; farming; and vaccine rollout
Recently our federal representative sat down with ABC News TV interviewer Patricia Karvelas [PK] talking about net-zero emissions by 2050 and the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. PK: Kristy McBain [KMc], taking agriculture out of the target like New Zealand, do you think that would be a reasonable approach? KMc:
National party continues to show its power over national policy on environment
INTERVIEWED by ABC RN Breakfast’s Fran Kelly, David Littleproud the federal National Party deputy leader and minister for agriculture, viewed splits in the ruling conservative ranks regarding climate change action in the regions and in agriculture and aired promising ideas about building on carbon farming and, in a first for Australia,
Commonwealth protects Platypus, Koala, Swift Parrot, Greater Glider habitat
HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI) has congratulated the federal government for a positive move this Christmas season as Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley announced new habitat protections. The listing of River-flat eucalypt forest on coastal floodplains of southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria as a Critically Endangered Ecological Community sees more than 20,000 highly
Electric vehicle budget impost, it’s a myth!
The Electric Vehicle Council has a new report that shows worries about electric vehicles and fuel excise tax avoidance are a furphy that masks hidden benefits to the Australian economy from switching to electric vehicles — if only Australian governments supported the move by lowering other taxes on electric. Read
Here‘s a bit of a chuckle to keep you going …
starting with the Qantas Airlines Repair Division AFTER EVERY FLIGHT, Qantas pilots fill out a form, called a ‘Gripe Sheet’ which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems; document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the Gripe Sheets before the next flight. Never let