Month: July 2021

There are many reasons to lament the return of The Beetrooter to high office in Australia. Two that should have prevented it are his behaviour towards women and his spruiking …

The Bible says that there is nothing new under the sun. I say there is. I reckon a beetle that moves about under the water, using the underside of surface tension is pretty new.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/09/beetle-that-can-walk-upside-down-under-water-surface-filmed-in-australia-in-world-first

Well, well, well. It turns out that Three S Sussan doesn’t mind harm to the children of Australia in her appeal on a mine disapproval. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/environment-minister-to-challenge-court-ruling-that-she-owes-children-a-duty-of-care-over-climate-change From: Maelor Himbury <maelor@melbpc.org.au>Date: …

So, will Environment Minister ‘Three S Susan’ appeal and argue that she should allow coal mines that will cause young people to be harmed or killed by carbon dioxide emissions?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/08/australian-government-must-protect-young-people-from-climate-crisis-harm-court-declares

Hey you LNP fossil fools, with AGL’s decision to close down a Torrens Island gas-fired generator, how’s your gas-led recovery looking? Your tax-payer funded $600 million gas-fired boondoggle at Kurri Kurri is more prima facie evidence, if more was needed, of your abject incompetence.https://reneweconomy.com.au/decline-of-baseload-agl-mothballs-gas-unit-as-it-prepares-first-big-battery/

This image is doing the rounds of social media. We need more trees, eh?

The Country Party (today’s Nationals) governed in minority in Victoria in 1950 with Labor support. It’s time that the Victorian Nats, as a relatively progressive party compared to their federal counterparts, broke away from the Liberals.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/06/victorian-nationals-to-push-for-bolder-climate-position-amid-anger-at-return-of-barnaby-joyce

I as born and brought up on Yorta Yorta country, I worked on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Wurrundjeri and Bunurong and I now live on Wurrundjeri land. You?https://www.sbs.com.au/news/wherever-you-live-right-now-you-re-on-traditional-country-australians-urged-to-rediscover-where-they-live

Our ham-fisted experiments to improve on nature have generally not gone well. More than a little humility is in order as it is a range of species that bear the brunt of our hubris. This goes right up to the biggest experiment of all, that of geoengineering, where the human species could be at risk. Where have all the flowers gone and will we ever learn, when will we ever learn?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-03/colonists-disastrous-use-of-animals-for-acclimatisation/100254906