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This has taken a while, but we finally have Christine’s Budget Reply Speech up on YouTube and postable to the blog. Those of you who have enjoyed reading or listening to it may be interested in watching it.
In five parts.
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The debate flying in Crikey.com.au about whaling campaigns in recent days is symptomatic of the way predictable players use the summer whaling season as an opportunity to further their anti-environmental campaigns. Here’s my contribution to the debate from today’s Crikey email. Apologies if the links are behind the Crikey paywall…
Steve Shallhorn, my former boss at [...]
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A complex situation has arisen in the Southern Ocean where the Japanese Whaling fleet run by The Institute of Cetacean Research is attempting to slaughter nearly a thousand whales for the purpose of ’scientific research.’
Greenpeace located the fleet and claims to have chased the whalers out of hunting grounds. With the Australian Federal Courts’ recent [...]
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Malcolm Turnbull has done what Gunns and the Prime Minister required and approved the pulp mill. But he hasn’t taken it off the election agenda – this is far from over.
Mr Turnbull is saying that the conditions he’s put on the marine effluent, and saving 400ha of forest, make this a world’s best practice mill. [...]
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With corals newly added to the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species, The Australian Greens are backing the call by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to declare the Coral Sea a marine protected area.
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The Government needs to implement effective management and protection of this globally significant region. This region is virtually unprotected, and [...]
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