Colin Boyce has never let science stand in the way of his antediluvian views on climate change. He’s involved in the Saltbush Club and consorts with other members such as Ian Plimer and Hugh Morgan and works with others in the tin-foil hat brigade of the IPA and the Lavoisier Group. If he says ‘black’, I’d say ‘white’.
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From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 21 March 2025 at 8:56:46 am GMT+11
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Mar 21
Date: 21 March 2025 at 8:56:46 am GMT+11
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Mar 21
Post of the Day
David McEwen
With the election campaign already in full swing, what progress has Australia made towards emission reductions under Labor? Are we better informed and better prepared?
On This Day
Nowruz – Persian New Year
Ecological Observance
Arbor Day – Belgium, Portugal and Lesotho
Climate Change
Vanuatu is one of the most disaster-prone nations on the planet, with cyclones, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. And its people now face an unsettling question: how many disasters can one nation take?
Zoe Williams
The run-up to 2016 shows ‘common sense’ isn’t enough. Even ignorant, reactionary arguments must be properly countered
National
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is repeatedly interrupted by protesters as he outlines the Coalition’s foreign principles to the Lowy Institute.
A series of massive underground tunnels for nuclear waste are under construction across Europe and the UK, but how we will warn future generations of their dangers is still up in the air.
The local Mitsubishi boss has declared car yards are brimming with EVs that people do not want to buy, and warned the price of petrol cars could rise unless Labor overhauls its vehicle-emissions standards.
Safety ratings given to 500,000km of Australian roads should be made public, a motoring body has urged, to ensure pre-election funding announcements are based on safety rather than votes.
Activists are spending big on pro-nuclear ads, but it’s Dutton’s silence that has Labor’s attention [$]
An analysis of Meta’s advertising library shows the Liberals last funded a push of its nuclear power policy back in November.
Andy G Howe et al
Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders – and, of course, kids! Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school — they are putting them on the map and even discovering and naming new species.
Binoy Kampmark
The backlash against an influencer who snatched a baby wombat has raised awareness of the fraught relationship between humans and Australia’s beleaguered animal species.
A climate ‘news organisation’ is paying to show anti-Peter Dutton ads to millions of Australians [$]
Cam Wilson
The newly founded Hothouse Magazine has only a handful of articles, but more than 1,000 Facebook and Instagram ads almost exclusively attacking Peter Dutton.
Australian Energy Market Operator
A forecast of annual gas consumption and maximum gas demand, outlining the adequacy of central and eastern gas markets to supply forecast demand over a 20-year period.
Victoria
The Federal government, state government and Melbourne Airport have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to commence delivery of the Airport Rail Link project but would not confirm a completion date.
Heavy rain on Thursday night flooded areas of Frankston and Seaford, while thunderstorms continue in Victoria’s north.
Community consultation is part of every large project from toll roads to housing towers, but expert research argues the public is being gaslit.
New South Wales
Vets and wildlife volunteers are nursing around 100 corellas back to health after the birds survived a suspected mass poisoning in Newcastle that killed hundreds of birds.
Thousands of small fish have washed up on beaches all along the NSW south coast and experts don’t know why.
A controversial project that could transform swathes of one Australian state forever has “overwhelming support”, new polling has revealed.
A bid to revamp a popular Sydney marina has sparked an avalanche of public submissions from locals worried that their tranquil waterway will be clogged with bigger boats.
ACT
Planning Minister Chris Steel wants the government to consider declaring a new urban renewal precinct to cover the light rail corridor between the city and Woden Valley.
Queensland
Next to Rockhampton Airport is a large botanical garden filled with thousands of flying foxes, and when the sun sets these creatures come alive and cause headaches for incoming flights.
Triple-digit rainfall totals have battered the region for days, just a month after it experienced a flood emergency that killed two people.
Giles Parkinson
If you ever need an example of the idiocy and the ignorance behind the Coalition and LNP campaign against renewable energy in Australia, a good place to start would be the federal MP for Flynn, Colin Boyce.
South Australia
The state government’s Urban Greening Strategy, released today, includes a plan to grow tree canopy and give $1.5 million to council greening projects.
Tasmania
RSPCA Australia has withdrawn its certification from salmon farming giant Huon Aquaculture following the release of a video that shows live fish being dumped into bins.
Federal Labor will push through legislation next week which could derail a legal battle over salmon farming’s impact on an endangered ray and safeguard the industry’s future in Tasmania.
More than 50,000 Tasmanian households are currently suffering “energy poverty”, with residents forgoing heating in order to afford food, medicine, and rent, a committee has heard.
Hundreds of people have voiced their opposition to Tasmania’s salmon industry outside the state’s parliament. The Federal Government is introducing legislation that will protect the industry on Tasmania’s west coast. At the same time, at least 1 million fish have been sent to landfill, after dying on farms in the south.
Transcript of media conference regarding the Commonwealth Government’s proposed changes to the EPBC Act, with Alistair Allan (Bob Brown Foundation), Eloise Carr (Australia Institute), Nick Mckim (Tasmanian Greens Senator) & Jess Coughlan (Neighbours of Fish Farming), Parliament Lawns, Hobart, 20 March 2025.
Northern Territory
Tree management and protection proved to be big talking points at a Top End council meeting on Tuesday, with the council passing a number of policies that could see more than 1000 trees planted.
Western Australia
A controversial plan for an offshore wind farm off the coast of Bunbury is being revved up by Federal Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, despite Premier Roger Cook suggesting other options would be quicker.
Woodside’s bid to expand a huge gas project is testing both major parties’ environmental credentials
Melissa Haswell and David Shearman
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has indicated a Coalition government would quickly approve a giant gas project off Western Australia which will release billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases until around 2070.
Sustainability
Greenpeace must pay substantial damages for defamation and other claims brought by a oil pipeline company over the Standing Rock protests in 2016 and 2017.
Members of public accounts committee raise concerns about culture and call for greater examination
Nature Conservation
Exclusive: Representatives of king, National Trust and others called on to work together to protect environment
Maelor Himbury | Library Volunteer
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