Politics
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Victoria’s exit from native forest logging is welcome & long overdue
By the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash...
Victorian Government to end native forest logging
23 May 2023 - Conservationists celebrate reports that state government will end native forest logging by the end of the year. This morning the ABC has reported that...
Taxpayers hit with $5 million bill to log koala habitat
$5 million to kill koalas: NCC calls for halt on logging in Great Koala National Park. The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC),...
Fracking incidents on cattle station in Beetaloo Basin NT
Update: 24 August 2023 - Two workers allege they were told to keep spraying contaminated drill rig water around a gas fracking site in...
Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group speech by AFP Commissioner
Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group speech by AFP Commissioner, Reece Kershaw 22 May 2023 - Last year, Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group principals and representatives...
Can you rent out a Tiny Home, Granny Flat, Transportable building or Caravan?
First I’d like to give you some background on my answers here, I've dealt with every one of the 128 different councils in NSW,...
A National Forest Protection & Workforce Plan for Australia
Labor Environment Action Network - A National Forest Protection and Workforce Plan for Australia
James Cook journal aboard HMB Endeavour: 14 – 20 May, 1770
During this week in 1770 the HMB Endeavour travelled north from Smoky Cape near South West Rocks in NSW to the northern tip of...
Origin of “Welcome to Country” Nimbin Aquarius Festival 1973
Amongst the many firsts, the first Aquarius Festival held the first "Welcome to Country" performed in the country for non-Indigenous Australians in 1973
LNP = coal; ALP = gas. Northern Territory is fracking the joint
As soon as Northern Territory set up the Pepper Inquiry into Fracking it became obvious the government was determined to frack the joint. Pepper's Terms...