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If you wish to vote for action on climate change, you need to know what parties offer good climate action policies. There are many minor parties, and it is difficult to spend the time to find out what they propose to do if elected. By Richard Weller* of Climate Future […]
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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s ‘Reef Summer Snapshot 2021-22’ found that 90 per cent of surveyed areas bleached in a marine heatwave earlier this year. According to the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) this devastation shows “an emergency response to slash emissions must be an urgent priority for […]
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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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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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Daily news…Jonah is an articulate 25-year-old undergraduate with a demanding day job and parents who worry about him – he speaks with Jackie Pearson about why he believes the direct actions of groups like Blockade Australia will “take us to a safer future”. Speaking with Jonah, who explains he is […]
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DAILY NEWS…. For four days last week #BlockadeAustralia successfully created major traffic disruptions at Sydney’s Port Botany to draw attention to the climate crisis and the NSW Police response has been to form a Strike Force and call the protesters anarchists. By Jackie Pearson Acting Premier and Minister for Police […]
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DAILY NEWS… Jo Dodds doesn’t quite remember how she managed to become President of the NGO called Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BS4C) but she does remember the day her feelings about climate change became visceral. She wants the NSW Planning Minister to make sure climate-impacted communities get to build […]
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Pretzel, a green turtle hatchling, has already survived a flood disaster and potentially fatal plastic consumption … and that’s just in its first few weeks of life. The little battler, who fits in the palm of a hand, washed ashore recently at New Brighton Beach on the NSW north coast […]
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