GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE world must urgently recognise the role of human behaviour, human populations and their development practices as the world faces pandemic disease like COVID-19. That’s the conclusion of an overdue research focus on the ground-level drivers of novel diseases besetting the globe. The latest coronavirus disease started as a
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Second Berejiklian/Barilaro virus economic response: little help for 1,000s unemployed
THE NSW OPPOSITION has labelled the NSW Coalition government’s long awaited second economic survival package “deeply disappointing and seriously inadequate”. package less than half spent on Powerhouse relocation Labor Shadow Treasurer Walt Secord said the total package is half of what the Berejiklian government is wasting on the $1.5 billion relocation of
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Regenerative Agriculture Conference of interest for new directions: 24–25 March, Albury NSW
Inspiring climate-solutions leader headlines Regenerative Agriculture Conference ALLAN SAVORY, founder of Holistic Management and the Savory Global Network, will be the keynote guest at the March 2020 Farming Matters — For Our Love of the Land conference to be held in Albury, NSW. The conference that will run across two days, 24
NSW Nationals and Barilaro again vandalise nature for votes
NATIONALS MEMBER FOR Monaro and Deputy Premier John Barilaro has enjoyed more headlines with ideas about destroying the state’s environment — seemingly again pitching to the most rear-guard of rural voters. The latest idea, to rip up the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, follows actions like declaring open season on the state’s kangaroos
He kills because he can, a neighbour’s story
Neighbors can’t venture out at night Since September 2018 the NSW government has signaled ‘open season’ on Australia’s national emblem, the kangaroo. In this region, it’s the Eastern Grey Kangaroo. An already weak and minimal permit system, lack of monitoring and lack of enforcement of anti-cruelty codes, were helpfully loosened further.
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23 humane organisations slam ACT kangaroo slaughter
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, condemn the planned killing of 4,076 kangaroos, and their joeys, by the Australian Capital Territory government, and draw attention to the cruelty and suffering inflicted by these actions. This is occurring within a context of a global wildlife crisis with extinction looming for over one million species according to the United Nations latest comprehensive
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HELP! Fake news on leaders may sway undecided voters
THIS ELECTION editorial comment. The other night we were minding our own business, watching a film on SBS when the peace was shattered by an advertisement on behalf of the Liberal Party, screaming “Tax” joined to the word Labor. Featured, along with images of nice looking but apparently clueless Australian voters,