NSW PREMIER GLADYS Berejiklian will stand her ground and refuse the Nationals’ demands for an urgent cabinet meeting to debate planning policy relating to koalas. Her stance is likely to infuriate the junior Coalition partner, which has threatened to boycott a joint party room meeting next week ahead of a parliamentary
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Lots of models, little monitoring: where is the MDB water?
Volunteers keep wildlife alive for months post fire
COVID-19 HAS CLOGGED the news and taken up just about all our interest and thoughts over the last several months. However, for many volunteers their work and minds are still heavily focused on help and care for wildlife since the ‘Black Summer’ fires (seen above). The effort by volunteer groups goes
Lethal management: 1080 poison — why do they use it and blur its horrendous impacts?
THIS YEAR 2020, the NSW government is undertaking a wide-ranging killing program that it is proud to call the “largest feral animal control program in the state’s history” following the 2019–2020 bushfires. This involves dropping poison baits disguised as food for hungry mammalian animals into 60,000 kilometres of the state’s
They’re advised not to shoot mums in Canberra — but they do, here’s how
THE ACT GOVERNMENT supplies anyone who questions their annual kangaroo family slaughter — killing Australia’s favourite tourism icon in the national capital — with a comforting ‘scientific’ fact sheet. The Bulletin has previously published an independent critique of the relevance or validity of the scientific argument that kangaroos damage other native
NATS, BARILARO, seek to DELIVER DESTRUCTIVE WATER POLICY
RECENTLY, the NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro, the National Party politician representing Monaro, again threw himself into the media spotlight. Two notable pronouncements in quick succession. Barilaro’s behaviour in the second case, jaw-dropping tantrums, quickly overshadowed the earlier story with wide-spread media coverage. But the first story should not be
NSW Forests starts on Numbucca State Forest
Conservationists warn of disaster post-fire for surviving koalas and others. We are driving our forest wildlife to extinction to make products that will end up in landfill or rot in people’s backyards. CONSERVATION GROUPS AND the Gumbaynggirr traditional custodians have called on the government to order the Forestry Corporation to not log
Mother Nature fights back, round two
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
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
