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
Letters
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
How it really is, from a GetUp volunteer
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
Win for conservationists: cancellation of coast HuntFest
‘Pests’ that regenerate the land
People power: GetUp after the shock
Kangaroo cull: an insult to public’s intelligence
THIS YEAR THE ACT government intends to cull more kangaroos than ever before. Previously the ACT government would have softened the community up with propaganda and misinformation, but not this time. The shock and awe will start immediately! The same old, unconvincing, excuses are trotted out, as if the general public’s
Sanctuaries also need drought support
RECENTLY, OUR LOCAL Eurobodalla Shire Council hosted ‘Raindance’ to raise funds to be distributed to those affected by drought, with local farmers being the priority. It is understood something like $44,000 was raised at these events which were held simultaneously in Batemans Bay, Moruya and Narooma. Most of the money went