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Caring for our Country - or is it?

Posted in Environment, NRM, Rachel Siewert, World Heritage, tagged , , , , , on June 24, 2008 | 17 Comments »

This piece was published today on ABC Online (minus the picture). Also see my media release on this issue.

At the end of March, Environment Minister Peter Garrett finally announced the Government’s new environment funding package ‘Caring for Our Country’. I say ‘finally’ because the funding under the Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) was coming to an [...]

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Magnificent Tarkine wilderness burning

Posted in Christine Milne, Environment, Greens, Logging, World Heritage on March 18, 2008 | 23 Comments »

Yesterday morning we learned that a major bushfire was burning out of control in the magnificent Tarkine wilderness in remote north-easternwestern Tasmania, destroying precious, unique rainforest.
To make matters worse, the fire is believed to have been started after a car rolled on the ‘Road to Nowhere’, deliberately lit by the driver to attract attention. In [...]

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