IN MEMORIUM THIS WINTER REALLY knocked the old ones. A relentlessly wet and cold winter in the range country surrounding the national capital. We hadn’t experienced weather like this in a decade. Most recently we were battling drought and then fires as elsewhere in Eastern Australia. We share the land here with
Author: Maria Taylor
Feeding kangaroo to your pets? Here are some thoughts.
Plant-based health and fighting climate change
How Canberra tells you what to think
EVERY MAY MOTHER’S DAY or thereabouts, Canberra politicians, Labor, Green and Liberal, spoil the season by giving thumbs up to what they like to portray as an unremarkable slaughter of our national emblem in the nation’s capital. On public nature reserves, this involves shooting kangaroo families — mums and males —
NSW Coalition trades irreplaceable habitat for a bag of silver
WE’RE HEARING TODAY that the death of coal-fired power in Australia is inevitable for economic reasons aided by environmental concerns. Yet, away from the public gaze under the cover of COVID-19, last year NSW pushed ahead with a foreign-owned coal mining proposal that would turn sections of the rich Liverpool
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FROM EDITOR Maria Taylor —We are going solo and direct with donations to The Bulletin. This comes after a very disappointing experience with Paypal as intermediary — a headache possibly experienced by other small business in Australia recently. Too many robots and automated responses, not enough human contact for issue discussion. Thank
When words fail us
POLITICS HAS BECOME so bad in places, so over-the-top in behaviour that appears consequence-free, even when badged corrupt or immoral, that it gets beyond us. Earnest reporting and social media commentary can’t keep up. It’s too depressing. But a remedy has appeared. Bring on the satirists. Consider Koalagate. It featured a
COMPLAINT: Is QBN FM just a mouthpiece for NSW farmers?
Hi Folks, I WAS VERY concerned to hear a news broadcast [15 Sept 2020] by your syndicated Rural Communications Network relevant to the political stoush brought about by the National Party on expanded safeguards for koala habitat on private property. These are trying to help safeguard the koala which I am
DID Eden-Monaro Voters send a message? Part II
THE BULLETIN is not the only commentator noticing that voters were sending a message with the recent Eden-Monaro by-election that ended with a close finish for Labor’s Kristy McBain on preferences. An Inside Story analysis by reporter Tim Colebatch, previously an economics editor for Fairfax, delves into the preference flow that
Did Eden-Monaro voters send both major parties a message?
WITH LABOR’S KRISTY McBain claiming victory on preferences with a very slim margin — for which we are thankful, not least because who needs another climate change sceptic in federal parliament? — the outcome begs the question: what were voters telegraphing? Neither major party came through with a roaring endorsement from