EIGHT HUNDRED and fifty three Canberrans hand-signed a call for an independent review of the capital's annual persecution of the animal that holds up one half of the national coat of arms, the kangaroo. The emu, holding up the other half of the coat of arms, was as viciously hunted in the past but
Author: Maria Taylor
Bulletin congratulates McBain on regional ministry spot
KRISTY MCBAIN WON re-election with a confidence vote of close to 60% from her Eden-Monaro constituents. A bellwether electorate high point. Her Labor peers have thanked her, amongst a swag of new women entering the Albanese government ministries, with the portfolio of Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories. That’s
The real threat now to Australian life, nature
THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY General Antonio Guterres did not pull his punches as he released the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest and most urgent real-world data report: He said it revealed a “criminal” abdication of leadership around the world. The report again warned that Australia is in the top
Sharing the land with Australian wildlife: a winning experience
An excerpt from Maria Taylor's book 'Injustice' (2021) AFTER 30 YEARS of living in the bush I know a bit about living with wildlife, but I did not know anything about building soil, regenerating the overgrazed, water-eroded, and sun-bleached sections of the property. I was about to find out more, visiting
In this season of peace and goodwill: meet the macropods and our region’s champion healers
In the following excerpt from Maria Taylor's new book INJUSTICE hidden in plain sight... Australia's national icon is restored to its rightful place amongst the country's remarkable, unique animals. And we meet two medical champions who fix broken bodies of wombats, kangaroos and wallabies, turtles, reptiles and birds of many kinds — bringing expert
Sharing our land
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
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