IN THE FIRST WEEK of October, the Victorian Labor government continued its unenlightened and colonial-looking wildlife policies — bowing to the most hidebound of the rural community and other commercial interests and loud demands from National Party politicians. A petfood trade targeting kangaroos has started in Victoria. These animals were almost
Editorial / Opinion
Right to Farm Bill: more time in jail for peaceful protestors than for violent criminals
Is this what we want? PEOPLE WILL FACE more time in jail for peaceful protest than for grievous bodily harm if the government’s Right to Farm Bill becomes law. The bill provides for three-year prison terms for protesters while the penalty for permanently or seriously disfiguring another person is a maximum of
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
The Nationals – kill this, save that, log River Red Gums, clear natives, now jobs good, formerly cut them…
NSW AGRICULTURE MINISTER, Marshal, published a regulation encouraging landowners to regard deer as feral animals, with potential to destroy habitat and impede farming/stocking practices on private land. This regulation was introduced courtesy the Game and Feral Animal Control Act. As adorable as deer (Bambi) images may be there appears little ministerial reservation
Cry for the Voiceless
I SHARE THE Bulletin’s concern over the reaction of our newly elected leaders to the vegan protests which committed the grievous crime of holding up traffic, and trespassing on farms and slaughter houses in order to expose the ghastly practices carried on there. It is very disheartening when the Minister for Agriculture
How it really is, from a GetUp volunteer
What’s going on with the economy: Fact versus Fiction
AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY FALLS from best (after GFC remedies under Labor) to below top 20. What is going on when the Coalition rides on a fable about good economic management? Alan Austin in the Michael West newsletter explains that News Corp media, that is The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun,
Editorial: Progressive policies and institutions, unabashed
Letter: Monaro’s Barilaro grapples with Murray-Darling
STRUTTING HIS STUFF lest he suffer relevance deprivation, Deputy Premier, Barilaro, despite not attending the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Ministerial Council, decided the plan was “untenable”. Years into the “plan”, in his second term, a Damascene moment of enlightenment suddenly revealed to him (and presumably his government) that NSW is in the
Letter: Ratepayers, environment lose as EDE contractor goes into administration
REMINISCENT OF THE ALBATROSS in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s (1798) The Rime of the ancient Mariner, the burden of the EDE’s contract implosion will be difficult to shake. This failure will push posterity’s ratepayers’ burden well beyond the $86m, now projected, considerably beyond $50m originally “sold”. Adding to embarrassment is the fact, now