WHY? THAT QUESTION from the rural residential community hovers over Council’s decision at its May general meeting to spend another $50,000 of taxpayers’ funds for a planning proposal to split the zoning in Wamboin and Bywong based broadly on topography, i.e. on what occurs naturally on the ground, either remnant
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Big lies, little policies: the ‘miracle’ of conning the public
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
Lies and hiding the facts: Coalition climate policy
SENIOR MINISTERS CONTINUE to falsely claim that emissions are going down and that our Paris targets will be met, says a Climate Council report. The report exposes how the Federal Government has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the public in the dark on climate change. “I think most Australians would be outraged
$130 billion: potential annual economic benefit by AVOIDING climate change impacts
Greens: climate policies challenge ALP to do more
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,
Big $$ to offshore speculators selling Oz river water back to Coalition Govt
INVESTIGATION: How Barnaby Joyce, Angus Taylor involved. It is extraordinary that the profit from Barnaby Joyce’s record payment for Australian water rights, an $80 million payment of taxpayers’ money, found its way to a company in the Cayman Islands which had been set up by Angus Taylor, a company at which
Alert: BARBED WIRE and NETTING, what’s the harm?
NSW water policy giveaway promises more ecological disaster
Floodplain water for favoured irrigators THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE has coordinated an open letter (PDF version) to NSW Water Minister Niall Blair (National Party) urging him to halt a controversial policy change from his department that assigns rights to divert huge volumes of water in the northern Murray-Darling Basin under a process