A PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE has detailed a number of ways to reform floodplain harvesting in NSW. NSW Farmers President James Jackson said even small steps towards evidence-based regulation of floodplain harvesting were better than the uncertainty surrounding the issue at present. “We advocate for the fair and equitable sharing of our valuable water
Editorial / Opinion
Nationals raise concern over Electric Vehicles: “We don’t have long enough extension cords”
THE NATIONAL PARTY has raised concerns about the introduction of electric vehicles onto Australia’s roads, saying they didn’t think there would be an extension cord long enough to allow for long-distance driving in regional Australia. Part-time Nationals Senator and full-time culture warrior, Matt Canavan, struck out at electric vehicle technology this
The Melbourne Cup is an embarrassment to Australia’s collective dignity
Australia's gambling addiction grows on back of animals. The Melbourne Cup feels a little different each year, an extravaganza of diminishing returns that grows more troubling each cycle we refuse to put it out of its misery. The Melbourne Cup is an Australian institution. It has somehow managed, through its signature blend of
Fearless Australian environment reporter remembered
FORMER CANBERRA TIMES Science and Conservation journalist, Rosslyn Beeby died earlier this year at the age of 68. She was described by her friend and former colleague, Helen Musa, as having become “increasingly reclusive” since her retirement. I first met Rosslyn Beeby after she interviewed me regarding a government consultancy report
Sharing our land
IN MEMORIUM THIS WINTER REALLY knocked the old ones. A relentlessly wet and cold winter in the range country surrounding the national capital. We hadn’t experienced weather like this in a decade. Most recently we were battling drought and then fires as elsewhere in Eastern Australia. We share the land here with
Feeding kangaroo to your pets? Here are some thoughts.
‘It’s almost like grooming’: How anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists and the far-right came together over COVID
SCENES OF PROTESTORS clad in hi-viz jackets and shouting anti-vaccination slogans have dominated the news recently. As ABC News reported: “Some of those gathered held a banner reading ‘freedo’, while others sang the national anthem and chanted ‘f*** the jab’.” Some attacked union offices, drawing criticism from officials such as Australian Council of Trade
Nature Matters
ONE OF THE last, and perhaps most controversial actions of the Eurobodalla Shire Council before it goes into caretaker mode, [related to council elections in early December] was the adoption of a zoning plan made by a previous council decades ago. This old plan advocates the destruction of a large area of Dalmeny bushland for housing
Relentless shooting and cruelty
Preparing to testify at a NSW enquiry into the welfare and health of the state's kangaroos, Diane Smith and Greg Keightley again experienced first-hand the barbaric impacts of the Australian commercial kangaroo industry for skins and petfood or, in parallel, just for wildlife destruction — supported by various rural landholders and
Aunty Ro speaks her pain at destruction of totem kangaroo
INDIGENOUS EDUCATOR AND writer Aunty Ro Mudyn Godwin, in June testified to a NSW parliamentary committee hearing on the welfare and health of the state’s kangaroos. Status quo welfare: very bad. She spoke of the personal impact and social cost of the state’s and indeed Australia’s, wholesale destruction of the national emblem, which