I admit it, I have been a frog and toad lover since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. When I was young, finding a frog, especially an unusual one, was as exciting as finding a gold nugget. Today I discovered an extremely useful and long overdue website, Frogs Not Canetoads. For years clubbing toads has been […]
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Barnaby Joyce’s anti-carbon tax petition
March 23rd, 2011Here’s a link to Barnaby Joyce’s anti-carbon tax petition It only takes a few seconds to add your name. If a carbon tax stopped pollution it would be a great scheme. But it won’t, it will only drive already struggling businesses to the wall, increase unemployment and increase the cost of living…while churning out fat […]
Nuclear power stations and nuclear waste dumps in outback Australia
March 21st, 2011Where should nuclear power stations and nuclear waste dumps be located, in Australia? In the heart of our largest city, Sydney. Oh but what if there is an accident? Well if there is any, any, chance of an accident – then we must not have a nuclear power station or nuclear waste dump in Australia […]
Plant variety rights legislation affects us all
March 1st, 2011The Seed Savers Network was created in 1986 in response to Plant Variety Rights legislation. The seed savers network website is a mine of information, and issues discussed include the preservation of plant varieties historically, what is likely to happen in future, and worldwide issues. For example a recent post on plant variety rights ownership: ‘Since […]
Mataranka Station animal neglect or cruelty
November 1st, 2010Discussions continue about the death of cattle on Mataranka Station, the Northern Territory training/education cattle station owned by Charles Darwin University. Estimates of the cattle that starved to death between September 2009 and May 2010 range from 200 to 800, but really the quantity is irrelevant because 200 is too many, if claims are correct that […]
Acton’s Moray Downs sought by Indian Company, Adani Enterprises
September 22nd, 2010Indian Company Adani Enterprises has bought Linc Energy’s coal tenement which runs acrossActon-owned Moray Downs, north west of Clermont (Central Queensland). Unsurprisingly, Adani Enterprises are interested in purchasing Moray Downs cattle station as well. Owning the land where mining tenements are located simplifies the development and operation of mines for the owners. Buying the pastoral lease as well as […]
Stanbroke Pastoral Company suing Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd
August 15th, 2010Stanbroke Pastoral Company are taking Xstrata’s Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd to court to recover costs relating to environmental damage
Australian Plague Locusts
July 17th, 2010I’ve seen grasshoppers of all kinds and lots of locusts (and have learnt that picking up big spur throated locusts is not wise), but can’t remember ever seeing locusts swarming. That is until we drove home the other day, and went through locust swarms east and west of Julia Creek. Most of them flew a […]
Richard Aedy’s ABC Life Matters, A vegetarian love-in
June 18th, 2010Anyone feel like reading a couple of hundred posts by a pack of white middle-class professional holier-than-though people convinced they are morally superior because they choose to not eat meat; engaging in a session of mutual back-scratching? If so, check out the vegetarian diatribe on ABC Life Matters with Presenter Richard Aedy. I was going to call […]
Governments and the lack of Care for the Environment
June 16th, 2010Governments are not doing nearly enough to ensure mining activity does not damage the environment, in the short or long term