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US Political Campaign Buttons and Other Collectibles
Your Guide to the Political Collectibles Market Politics is a bloodsport, and the artifacts it leaves behind are trophies from battles fought in smoke-filled rooms and on the broken backs of the American electorate. This upcoming auction is a high-stakes feeding frenzy,...
Country Living
How to Build a Beneficial Bug Hotel for Your Backyard
How to Build a Beneficial Bug Hotel for Your Backyard Creating a beneficial bug hotel is a fun and rewarding way to support your garden’s ecosystem. By providing a safe habitat for insects like bees, ladybugs, and lacewings, you encourage natural pollination...
Australian Politics
A New EPA, Old Fears: Australia’s Environment Laws Get a Makeover
A Long Time Coming: Australia Finally Confronts the Need to Fix Its Broken Environment Laws For a quarter of a century, Australia’s national environment law—the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC)—has been criticised as outdated, weak, and far too easily gamed....
Australian Politics
AI jobs are increasing productivity, says PwC
In a significant development for the global labor market, sectors more exposed to AI are experiencing a remarkable surge in productivity, according to PwC's inaugural 2024 Global AI Jobs Barometer. The report highlights that these sectors are witnessing nearly five times higher...
Australian Politics
NSW Waits for New Biodiversity & Conservation Laws
The New South Wales Government is slow to act on calls for new environment laws in the Henry Independent Review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. The Henry report gave a damning assessment of the Premier Mike Baird era law. The...
Collectibles
Fake Photo: Manipulated photography before Photoshop
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop was a photographic exhibition held between 2012 and 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington's National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Following in its tradition of exhibiting and collecting the finest...
Australian Politics
COP29 Roundup: Climate Finance, Gender Equality & No Targets
COP29: Lofty Promises, Stark Realities, and a Call for Justice The COP29 climate summit concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, leaving behind a trail of frustration and unmet expectations. For two weeks, the world watched as high-income countries and a petrostate presidency navigated a...
Antiques Auction News
Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘America’ Golden Throne Heads to Auction
Golden Toilet ‘America’ at Auction Our toilets have never sat quite so proudly on the pedestal of art history—until now. The tongue-in-cheek masterwork America, a fully functional 18-karat solid gold toilet by Italian provocateur Maurizio Cattelan, sold for $12,110,000 USD to a...
Art Theft & Fraud
The French Job: Canberra’s Multi-Million-Dollar Antiques Heist
French Gang Flew to Australia for $10m Luxury Heist It’s not every day Canberra finds itself cast in a plot worthy of Lupin, but October delivered an...
Sailing
Nautical Training Ship NTS Vernon anchors
The Vernon anchors are on public display outside the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney. The Nautical Training Ship Vernon was completed in 1839. In 1867,...
Earth Care
Meet the Frackers: Origin Energy ASX:ORG company information
Origin Energy Limited - ASX code ORG - is an integrated energy company in Australia. Origin Energy is also involved in the generation of electricity, and the...
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High Court win for forest activists against Forestry Corp NSW
High Court Ruling Opens Door for Environment Groups to Sue NSW Forestry Corporation CANBERRA, April 9 — In a landmark judgment handed down today, the...
Winners of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
Portraits that Speak Beyond the Frame: Steph Wilson wins the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024, celebrated as...
True or false? Agenda 21 is a plan for a world government
Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It was a product of the Earth Summit...
Notre Dame de Paris: A Tale of Resilience and Restoration
Mark Anning - 0
Notre Dame de Paris, one of the most iconic symbols of French Gothic architecture, has stood proudly on the Île de la Cité in...
“Make A merkin Great Again” What is a merkin?
“Make A merkin Great Again” Cap and Merchandise Yes, folks, you heard right. The iconic red cap—bold, brash, and utterly ridiculous—is here to remind us...
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Australian Politics
How the Queensland Government fracked the state
First published 2013, updated 2023 to add new information and renew links to information that had been removed or moved to different links on government and Courier Mail websites. In February 2013 Liberal National Party Queensland...
Australian Politics
Gas Leaks … documentary by Four Corners, ABC Australia
This documentary shows how the two biggest CSG projects in Australia's history were rail-roaded past the environmental impact assessment process without any consideration of how they will deplete Australia's limited ground water reserves or any...
Fracking Gas
Meet the Frackers: QGC PL is part of BG Group
QGC Pty Limited (previously Queensland Gas Company) is part of the international BG Group which was created in 1996. BG Group acquired Queensland Gas Company in November 2008 and QGC was delisted from the Australian...
Fracking Gas
Ian McFarlane and the Ministerial Code of Conduct
"Your certainly don't extract coal seam gas unless the farmer says you can" - pre-election speech 2013 "We've got to make sure that every molecule of gas that can come out of the ground does so"...
Australian Politics
Martin Ferguson “makes a mockery” of ministerial code of conduct
Australian Greens' leader Christine Milne says the appointment of former Resources Minister Martin Ferguson as an executive of natural resources for Seven Group Holdings, and as chair to a petroleum industry advisory board "makes a...
Australian Politics
2010 Letter Catherine Tanna, QGC to Anna Bligh, Qld Premier
Official documents have a habit of being removed from the internet or moved onto different locations on government websites so we publish the 2010 letter from Catherine Tanna (QGC/BG Group) to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh...
Australian Politics
Crime & Misconduct Commission assess Coal Seam Gas complaints
Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) media release from 2013 concerning their assessment of complaints of official misconduct relating to the approval process of two coal seam gas fracking projects in Queensland. Official documents have a habit...
Corporate and Event Photography
Event Photography: Wingham Akoostic Music Festival
The Wingham Akoostik Music Festival is an annual three-day music festival held in Manning Valley on the NSW Mid Coast. Event photography by Mark Anning © 2019 See more of our photos in Wingham, NSW: 2021...
Climate Change
Farmers threatened with gas exploration on critical agricultural land
1 Febuary 2023 - Farmers and communities in the Gunnedah Basin and Liverpool Plains have again had to resort to blockade roads to protect some of the State's most productive farmlands from fossil fuel development. This...
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Collecting Rookie Baseball Cards: Auction Records and Cards for Beginners
Auction Records and the Best Baseball Rookie Cards for Beginners Rookie cards are the cornerstone of many baseball card collections, often seen as the holy...
Nuclear Reactors: A Disastrous Climate Gamble for Australia
The push for nuclear reactors in Australia, as proposed by the Federal Coalition, faces strong opposition from experts, environmentalists, and the public. The plan...
VicForests continue to illegally destroy endangered trees
State-owned logging company VicForests has continued to illegally destroy numerous endangered Tree Geebungs while doing ‘regeneration’ works, citizen scientists from Wildlife of the Central...
History of Australia’s Nuclear Energy Policy
Australia's nuclear energy policy has evolved from early exploration and ambitious plans for power generation to a focus on uranium mining and stringent export...
Guide to Keeping Goats in Your Home Garden
Mark Farmer - 0
Essentials Guide to Keeping Goats in Your Home Garden Goats are versatile and hardy animals that can provide milk, meat, fiber, and natural weed control...