NATIONALS MEMBER FOR Monaro and Deputy Premier John Barilaro has enjoyed more headlines with ideas about destroying the state’s environment — seemingly again pitching to the most rear-guard of rural voters. The latest idea, to rip up the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, follows actions like declaring open season on the state’s kangaroos
Author: Maria Taylor
Mothers march for climate action
I AND FAMILY members joined the student strike on 20 September. I wore a tee-shirt, left over from the NSW state campaign, that said Mothers for Environment, Wildlife, Climate Action! It got a lot of smiles. The 15,000-strong crowd, including many mothers, that marched and chanted through central Canberra on that
March for the planet: who is with it and who is missing?
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20 at noon in Canberra, will you join? While the Morrison government and the federal Opposition fiddle and the eastern states burn, stressing firefighters to the max, citizens across the country will be marching to voice their demand for action on climate change. This time, the Australian participation in
Stopping Essential Energy job cuts, bucking neo-liberal privatisation
Editorial: Progressive policies and institutions, unabashed
Those BLANKETY BLANK vegan terrorists
WE HAVE KNOWN all along that the National Party, both state and federal, supposedly the voice of all rural people, is no friend of animals, whether wildlife or domestic stock. The cruel live sheep and cattle export trade is among the party’s favoured programs, along with wide-scale killing of wildlife
Viva! — successful campaign for kangaroos, here’s how it unfolded
VIVA!, the British vegan and animal welfare organisation, across two decades has successfully created a consumer campaign to stop the sale of kangaroo meat in that country’s supermarkets. They have been able to convince celebrities like footballer David Beckham to live without kangaroo leather. Here’s their story as told to
We’re back and we need your support
QPRC persists with mystery zoning change Bywong, Wamboin
WHY? THAT QUESTION from the rural residential community hovers over Council’s decision at its May general meeting to spend another $50,000 of taxpayers’ funds for a planning proposal to split the zoning in Wamboin and Bywong based broadly on topography, i.e. on what occurs naturally on the ground, either remnant
