I WAS SHOCKED and disappointed to hear the news that the Victorian duck hunting season is to go ahead this year, despite horrendous fires and significant period of drought. Having participated in the duck rescue operations on the opening weekend of two years of duck hunting, I know the horror that
Editorial / Opinion
Canberra plans next kangaroo kill as bushfires wipe out wildlife
WHAT EXCELLENT TIMING by the ACT government! When it is reported that a billion native animals have perished in the bushfires (so far in the 2019–20 bushfires), the ACT government is again seeking contract shooters to carry out the Territory’s 2020 annual ‘cull’ and over the next four years too. CAPTION: “Hey
The cost of 20 years of INACTION and DENIAL
It has been said that ideological Liberal and National Party governments know the pricetag of everything and the cost of nothing. That is particularly true when it comes to trashing the natural environment. As the scientifically predicted cost of inaction and denial on climate change hit Australians with apocalyptic fury
STATEMENT: Emergency Leaders for Climate Action
Australia Unprepared for Worsening Extreme Weather We, the undersigned, who are former senior Australian fire and emergency service leaders, have observed how Australia is experiencing increasingly catastrophic extreme weather events that are putting lives, properties and livelihoods at greater risk and overwhelming our emergency services. > DOWNLOAD THE STATEMENT HERE [ READ THE
Thoughts from the Blue Mountains on another day of fire
State of dissent
THAT OLDER CANBERRANS might be engaged in Extinction Rebellion protests is unsurprising, as it merely represents another phase of developed issue awareness. For many senior Australians it will represent a continuation of an earlier involvement in university student movements, 1970–71 moratorium marches or 1971–74 Green Bans to protect areas of Sydney. Maturity
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Victoria scrapes bottom of the barrel on wildlife management
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
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