The parallels with Gunns in Tasmania and Adani in Queensland are either just coincidental or, as the article below argues, an inevitability when government is so beholden to corporate backers. Ban political donations, put a ban on resigning Ministers becoming board members of companies related to their previous portfolios and give us a federal Integrity Commission.
Get used to changes in many species’ distribution, not just populations of blue-ringed octopus and jellyfish. Water temperatures are changing – get used to many many other changes too as we see carbon emissions continue unchecked.
Labour should toughen its stance Adani, Tony, or are you judging that the Hunter seats can be so taken for granted that Labour and your union will wear the job losses there? How are we ahead in winning a battle to lose a war – and climate change is the biggest war of all. As the Greenies tell is, No Jobs on a Dead Planet.
Peter Lewis, the Labour left is thinking about blue-collar jobs in opposing the Adani mind and the rest of the Galilee Basin development – blue-collar jobs in the Hunter. There is a diminishing market for coal and all the Galilee developments will do is substitute rather than increase jobs.
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King tides are being monitored through the Green Cross Witness King Tides program. Check them on greencrossaustralia.org and add your own pictures.
‘It is hot and getting hotter in Queensland’. And not just Qld.
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