Month: October 2025

This bloke Ken Henry is worth listening to. Ten years as Treasury Secretary tells you he’s no forest feral and he’s as good a judge of the national interest as …

With your description of us being in more doo-doos than a Werribee duck, I’d say tell us something we don’t know. But Tom and Bill, what makes you think that, …

We were warned – and we did nothing! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au&gt;Date: 29 October 2025 at 8:57:29 am GMT+11To: Undisclosed recipients:;Subject: Daily Links Oct 29 Post of the Day Biodiversity …

If Ministers always acted in the national interest, and surely a healthy environment is in the national interest, we could relax. But, will Minister Watt put political interest first? We …

A thing of beauty, the cactus killers are on the job again. From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au&gt;Date: 27 October 2025 at 9:04:17 am GMT+11To: Undisclosed recipients:;Subject: Daily Links Oct 27 Post of …

So, how’s the move away from coal going? You’d think only idiots would keep doing that which is already causing grief. And be prepared for political chest-beating about how seriously …

Whenever I see that an author has links to the Heartland Institute my scepticism rises. This mob of Ayn Rand worshippers peddle nonsense masquerading as public debate. And in their …

Some years ago I was in a group taken out to Toolangi to some forest coupes to be shown how benign their forest ‘harvesting’ was. We were driven along logging …

When the global outlook is grim, it’s time for looking after ourselves and taking part in positive activities to help maintain our sanity. Taking part in the bird count is …

There’re matters of principle and there are matters of degree. Unfortunately the Paris Agreement doesn’t have universal acceptance of the principle and those countries that have signed are failing by …