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Howlin' Wind stands out
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (30+ words) Independent Australia He has several published collections, including 'Portraits of the Soul: A lifetime of images with Bill McAuley' and 'Last light on Victoria Dock, 1999'...
Rushy Lagoon sale: Tasmania's largest farm and the carbon math that doesn't add up
23+ hour, 32+ min ago (1169+ words) You cannot swap a few decades of fragile, reversible tree growth for the release of carbon the Earth took an almost incomprehensible span of time to lock away and call it an offset — that's commerce, dressed up as science, writes…...
How governments are greenlighting nature's decline
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1122+ words) New environmental offset rules, weak oversight and bureaucratic complexity are accelerating habitat loss while governments claim to be protecting Australia's wildlife, writes Sue Arnold. AUSTRALIA IS AT an environmental crossroads. The Albanese Government is moving towards the adoption of a…...
Cover-ups, culls and cruelty: Inside Victoria's wildlife crisis
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1078+ words) Victoria's environmental policies are facing growing scrutiny as critics accuse the Allan Government of secrecy, excessive wildlife culling and a failure to protect the state's native species, writes Sue Arnold. WHAT HAPPENS when a state government threatens the existence of…...
Why are state and federal governments driving the koala to extinction?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1114+ words) This is a question hundreds of thousands of concerned Australians are asking as community after community holds demonstrations, writes endless emails to government ministers, signs petitions, gets arrested and weeps as habitat is destroyed. Pictures of koalas deprived of their…...
Nature on life support: Budget cuts fuel biodiversity crisis
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1200+ words) THE AUSTRALIAN Land Conservation Alliance (ALCA) doesn’t mince words in its description of the Federal Budget — words shared by a significant number of Australians: ‘The Federal Budget puts funding for nature on life support.’ ALCA details the $2.2 billion cuts to…...
Australian wildlife cruelty is out of control
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1326+ words) Horrific, sadistic wildlife cruelty is out of control in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. With the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (POCTA) now replaced by many states, governments are failing to urgently act on the growing extent…...
Australia’s environmental crisis ignored as political parties drift Right
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1380+ words) Australia’s major parties face mounting criticism for ignoring biodiversity loss and climate risks as political debate shifts further to the Right, writes Sue Arnold. WHAT WILL IT TAKE for the major Australian political parties to act on rapidly escalating environmental…...
Victoria’s wildlife pays the price for Labor’s bushfire failures
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1365+ words) After devastating bushfires, critics say the Allan Government has abandoned wildlife rescue efforts while allowing hunting to continue, writes Sue Arnold. THE VICTORIAN Labor Government, led by Premier Jacinta Allan, is providing clear evidence of what lies ahead for Australia’s…...
New koala park less about koalas and more about cashing in on carbon credits
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (952+ words) Australian rainforests have become the first in the world to switch from absorbing carbon dioxide to emitting it. Sue Arnold reports. A COLLECTIVE SIGH of relief was felt by many when the NSW Government finally declared the proposed boundaries for…...