Brush-tailed bettongs released on Yorke Peninsula last year are doing so well nearly every female caught for a recent health check was carrying pouch young. One is even regarded as third generation. A female who arrived in her mother’s pouch more than six months ago now has her own joey. […]
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Greenpeace Australia reports that Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has warned that the survival of the Pacific is in peril if the world’s biggest polluters continue to put profit over people and planet, in Suva recently. Prime Minister Loughman made the remarks at the launch event for a powerful coalition […]
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While climate change, driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas, affects all Australians, the risks are not shared equally and in the most extreme instances, areas may become uninhabitable, according to the Climate Council. Worsening extreme weather means increased costs of maintenance, repair and replacement to properties – […]
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Forget about social media trends, opinion polls, leader debates and the six o’clock news, the 2022 federal election campaign is being fought by activists using some old-fashioned tactics – conversations and phone calls. GetUp is having “calling parties” – training volunteers to call voters and encourage them to pledge to […]
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Reports of people held at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) being forcibly moved to the Christmas Island detention centre last week have been called “concerning” by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre as the facilities on the island are woefully inadequate and harmful. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has […]
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NSW Shadow Environment Minister Penny Sharpe visited the site of the Mangrove Mountain landfill, that was recently the subject of a complex Land and Environment Court judgement, to declare that the right thing would be “no more dumping” at the site but the landfill owner appears to have other ideas. […]
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The sale of community assets including environmental land, rate hikes and service cuts are expected to continue on the NSW Central Coast even though the public was told the merger between its two old councils in 2016 would result in a “mega council” with a seat at the table to […]
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If climate change doesn’t end up devouring the Central Coast, the interest on commercial loans negotiated at the end of 2020 may drown the region’s debt-riven Council, Jackie Pearson reports in part three of this series on the Coast’s local government (or lack thereof). “If you torture numbers long enough, […]
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The National Parliament of Australia should be the workplace of our best and brightest – not only those elected to office but those who serve as staff – and it should be a safe workplace. Jackie Pearson looks at the work being done to implement the recommendations made by Sex […]
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What happens when a community decides to get politically active and run a campaign forum focused on core issues rather than candidates? Well, for starters, the major parties don’t turn up. An election campaign forum with a twist, held at Tuggerah’s Red Tree Theatre in regional NSW on Sunday, May […]
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