Tasmanian Highlands Wind Farm Gets Watt Approval
With the public diverted, the federal Minister for the Environment, Murray Watt, approved a highly contentious Tasmanian Highlands Wind farm on Christmas Eve. His approval was announced yesterday, but not via a media release. It was picked up by the Central Highlands No Turbine Action Group. Watt, the group’s ministerial representative, did not have the […]
These laws only help big business plunder what’s left of our environment
The current rush by the Albanese government to ram laws through Parliament based on the contradictory aims of benefiting both big business and the environment has left no room to discuss what honest environmental protection means. Resource extraction from nature causes environmental destruction and, while less is left of Earth’s natural ecosystem than ever before […]
Ensuring that forests are intact is critical for meeting net zero
A recent Opinion Piece in The Mercury by the forestry lobby group Forestry Australia highlighted the importance of forests in meeting Australia’s Net Zero targets
Albanese’s environmental disdain.
Expect little or nothing for Australia’s natural environment from PM Albanese’s much-vaunted Environment Protection Agency. Massive media coverage of the EPA’s plusses and minuses, parliamentary turmoil, and a ‘reluctant’ acceptance by industry will divert attention from the indispensable ingredient required to save Australia’s beleaguered ecosystems: action by the prime minister himself. Like the PM Howard’s […]
Jim Everett – puralia meenamatta – defies our justice system
Is it reasonable that Jim Everett – puralia meenamatta – defies our justice system? The Aboriginal elder refuses to appear before the ‘colonial court’, as he calls it, for trespassing on forestry land on 19 March, aiming to stop native forest logging. A warrant for his arrest has been issued. If he is hauled before […]
Premier Rockliff’s hypocrisy – attacks on environmental groups are the real threat to democracy
Premier Rockliff’s recent attacks on environmental groups undermine core democratic principles in Australia.
Tokyo murders first fin
In the midst of the accelerating climate and extinction crises, it’s appalling that Japan would flaunt international law and disdainfully murder defenceless mammals.
If you think native forest logging has stopped in Victoria, then think again
The Victorian Government claims that it has exited native forest logging on January 1 this year. However, it has not legislated this exit. And notably, logging is continuing through other nefarious and highly cynical means.
Comment on The Australian’s intergenerational enslavement
Today, The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, published an honourable letter apologising for The Guardian founder’s involvement with slavery 200 years ago. However, over at The Australian, the editor excoriated the Greens for advocating stronger measures to curb the disastrous impacts on humanity, and all life on Earth, of deliberately opening more coal and gas projects. […]
Lowy Institute discounts Antarctic environment to zero
Australia’s Lowy Institute has condemned Sea Shepherd and the Bob Brown Foundation for (‘breathlessly’) filming the giant krill-killing ships plundering the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. – https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/krill-campaign-less-thrilling In a gratuitous attack on environmentalists moving to save the Southern Ocean from the impact of the industrial krill extraction, Australia’s Lowy Institute has come out gunning on […]
