SOMETIME IN 1962, councillor and staunch union leader Tom Kerr posted the following poem in a shop front window on the main street of Captain's Flat: The ginney wheels no longer turn,Up on yonder hill,The wheels that pulled the miner’s oreFor crushing at the mill. Now at last the mine has died,Like
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From the desk of Michael West
Retaining biodiversity on private land
THE FEDERAL AGRICULTURE Department under David Littleproud is acting on recognition that much Australian biodiversity/habitat lies on private land, farm land, and that private landholders must be engaged to stem the catastrophic level of native plant and animal removal and decline since colonial times. Paying farmers for the costs of on-farm
Plant-based health and fighting climate change
Nothing good here, Australia at bottom of the pack
This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know. EARTH HAS WARMED 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel
Is PM’s slippery act infectious?
No action on purpose-built quarantine facilities, complacency about vaccine rollouts, and another Victorian lockdown: Is Scott Morrison’s charmed political act waning with a routine-driven media? University of Melbourne journalism researcher Dennis Muller gives us some answers in The Conversation. Scott-free no more? Why the prime minister's smooth media run may be coming to
Mother’s Day greetings from a sanctuary
At The District Bulletin we salute all Mums and value compassion for all our animal nations, wildlife and non-wildlife. So, we thought we would share with you the following seasonal newsletter from Little Oak Sanctuary south of Bungendore. Little Oak rehomes ‘farm’ animals that are on their way to execution
Koalas and farmers the winners as Shenhua Watermark coal mine lease buyout
The conservation movement welcomes media reports that the proposed Shenhua Watermark coal mine on the Liverpool Plains will never be built. According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald, the NSW Government is poised to buy back the mining licence from Chinese giant Shenhua. “If true, this will mark the end
In this March edition of The District Bulletin
Google and FB laws
Michael West Media in early February has offered a good plain English explanation of what the Morrison government attempts to regulate Google and Facebook news distribution means for small publishers and businesses in Australia (not good) as distinct from what it will achieve if successful: funnelling money back to the Murdoch's media