Federal governments of all persuasions have historically protected and funded Australia’s forest destruction.
Federal governments of all persuasions have historically protected and funded Australia’s forest destruction.
CONSERVATION groups seeking boycotts of products linked to environmental destruction may soon be liable for prosecution under consumer law. The move could hamper market-based campaigns by groups such as Markets for Change and GetUp! Currently, green groups have exemptions for secondary boycott activities under the Consumer and Competition Act. The Abbott government is going to …
The results aren’t all in yet – but one thing is sure – the Greens have made history again in Melbourne by re-electing Adam Bandt and also Janet Rice as a new Senator for Vic. The Greens’ Peter Whish-Wilson is back in Tasmania and Sarah Hanson-Young in South Australia and Scott Ludlam in Western Australia …
“One Stop Chop” legal report released States’ forest destruction shameful Who remembers the RFAs? They are a 15 year failed experiment of handing all environmental powers for our forests to the states. A damning legal report titled “One Stop Chop” has just been released and takes a look at the states’ forest management over that …
As part of that rotten Tassie forest agreement, last week $2.8 million was generously handed to a forest liquidating project run by Dorset Renewable Energies as part of the regional development package. This is a very dangerous foot-in-the-door for all our forests! And where are the green group signatories to the Tassie deal who so …
Regional Forests Agreements drafted years ago have shown that ‘one stop shops’ for environmental approvals don’t work. So why are they being considered? IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST and no government wants to hear about it, does it make a sound? The magnificent wedge-tailed eagles who nest in it will hear it fall. …
Green groups looking at legal challenge to Regional Forest Agreements they blame for pushing species towards extinction A coalition of environment groups has urged the federal government to tear up its “failed” forestry deal with states, which they blame for unsustainable logging and pushing species such as the Leadbeater’s possum and numbat to the brink …
Did you know – National Parks are set to be developed, mined, logged, grazed and shot in – the works! And did you know – for a politician:• A personal phone call is worth 100 emails• A personal face to face visit is worth 100 calls So one face to face meeting means you represent …
So Julia Gillard has declared that she wants the parties who started the so-called Tasmanian forest peace process “to do everything they can to use their abilities to silence those who haven’t gone with the mainstream consensus”. To silence. I lived with the silence of Tasmania for too many years. And now the leaders of …
The Climate Change Authority recently recommended changing the rules so burning forests for electricity could be termed ‘renewable” (with all the associated financial help!), but the Gillard Government has just said no! Huge thanks to The Greens again. This has stymied the industry’s plans to have burning forests take place of woodchipping to keep the …
Late last year the Business Council of Australia almost forced the Gillard government to hand over most Federal Environment powers to the states. This would have been an unimaginable disaster for Australia. After a combined campaign form Australia’s enviro groups Gillard back stepped in early December. Even the normally apolitical Sir David Attenborough made a …
