Excerpt from a forthcoming book by Maria Taylor on Australia’s uneasy and deadly history since settlement with its native wildlife. Can we replace disrespect and removal with understanding and appreciation? CAPTION ABOVE: Family of Red Kangaroo, Macropus rufus, on pasture. © Vladislav Jirousek, Dreamstime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Celebrating resilience, athleticism and efficiency … and ecosystem
Author: Maria Taylor
ACT will kill 4,000 kangaroos, as UN report warns of global extinction crisis
HELP! Fake news on leaders may sway undecided voters
THIS ELECTION editorial comment. The other night we were minding our own business, watching a film on SBS when the peace was shattered by an advertisement on behalf of the Liberal Party, screaming “Tax” joined to the word Labor. Featured, along with images of nice looking but apparently clueless Australian voters,
Well hello re-elected NSW Coalition government
Young people go to town for better climate policies
Revealed: recent NSW policy was ‘no policy’ IGNORING THE SOUR faces and disapproving words of the NSW Liberal Premier, and the federal Liberal Minister for Education, some 2,300 regional students together with family members and supporters marched in central Canberra last Friday. One teenager after another gave a rousing speech about
What will they privatise next?
Fossil-fuel chickens coming home to roost
WITH FIRES BURNING up the Tasmanian World Heritage highlands; ‘one-in-a- hundred-year’ rainfall stubbornly sticking to Townsville causing widespread flooding to homes, nearby dying reefs; unprecedented heat-waves in parts of south-eastern Australia — including right here in the capital region — the Darling River vomiting dead fish; and farmers everywhere more
National Party: hold over water, land and wildlife
What have they done? By Maria Taylor. A WILDLIFE TRAGEDY and regional community water debacle with huge fish kills in a depleted river system, the Barwon–Darling, in recent weeks has shone the spotlight squarely on the NSW National Party. Few people realise the extent of the party’s decision-making power over public resources
Progressive politics and a new deal
AS WE COME to the end of The District Bulletin’s first year of transformation into a great-looking website — focusing on environment, the natural world and sustainable living; as well as regional life and politics; culture, wellness and science; plus great reporting from ‘around the web’ — I have been
Stadium fight heats up
NEW NSW OPPOSITION leader Michael Daley wasted no time before visiting the regions and stopped in Queanbeyan on a stormy Wednesday at the end of November. He was accompanied by Monaro Labor candidate Bryce Wilson. The Labor mood was equally stormy — targeted at the Berejiklian-Barilaro Government’s plans to knock down