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On Saturday Australians must vote for a Federal government — as if we didn’t all know, with the election campaign dominating our media ad nauseam. Because we no longer believe what Labor or the Liberals say, in or out of campaign mode, it’s hard to care what they’re saying. And neither of them cares about [...]
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If the Galilee Basin in central-west Queensland sounds biblical, the scale of the threat facing it is certainly of epic proportions. The coal underneath it has always been there, but cattle and drovers, not coal mines and drillers, have dominated the land. If you’re listening to the Queensland Government or the mining industry they’d use words like [...]
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On the Liverpool Plains near Quirindi, New South Wales, local farmers at Caroona have been defending their properties from invasion by BHP Billiton’s coal exploration drillers. For 615 days, until Thursday 25th March, they have inspired coal-threatened communities everywhere with their blockade, by saying ‘No’ — and meaning it. Trish Duddy and Tommy and George [...]
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Brisbane to Canberra 13th March—26th May 2010 My friend Christa is part of the group of women undertaking this walk — she designed the great fundraiser postcard too. FootPrints for Peace is a global community of friends who are dedicated to creating change through peaceful action. They organise events throughout the world that bring people [...]
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The last chapter of my book, Mountain Tails, is called ‘Missing Tails’ and as 2010 is the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity, an extract from that chapter seems appropriate here. The illustration for that chapter was the Greater Bilby, listed as ’endangered’ in Queensland and ‘vulnerable’ nationally — the Lesser Bilby is already extinct. [...]
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The fight to save Anvil Hill near Wybong, NSW, from being mined by Centennial Coal involved thousands of people from near and far. We wanted to draw a line in the sand here at this scenically biodiverse ‘Ark of the Hunter’ and say ‘No new coal’. We lost to King Coal and the NSW Planning [...]
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Hi all, Ban Ki Moon will present the United Nations official petition “Seal The Deal” from the people of the earth to the delegates at Copenhagen. Add your voice here to the 364,206 people who have already signed his petition. You can find it here or just click on the Seal the Deal logo.
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For three days in October, from Friday 9th—Sunday 11th, I’ll be camping in my little tent alongside hundreds of others at Climate Camp ’09 . Set up among the trees near Australia’s oldest coal mine on Dharawal land in in Helensburgh, NSW (40 minutes south of Sydney), Climate Camp ’09 will be an entirely sustainable solar-powered event. Climate Camp is for [...]
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Recently I attended a Rivers SOS conference at Booral near Gloucester. Rivers SOS is an alliance of 40 groups from all over NSW committed to protecting the integrity of river systems and water sources against the impacts of mining. The weekend was held at Country River Camp, an informal and natural grassy camping area right [...]
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Our governments appear to be blind, mad or bad when it comes to coal. This is just one instance. Firstly there is the madness of having approved, in 2007, a mega coal mine that in Stage One will produce 127 million tonnes of coal over 15 yrs for the world to burn to make more CO2 — just what [...]
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In the months before the international climate conference in Copenhagen the dinosaurs of the coal industry are spending up big on lobbying to keep things the way they like them and helping the usual crew of Parliamentary dinosaurs to block the creation of hundreds of thousands of badly needed new clean energy jobs. Now a [...]
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In my book The Woman on the Mountain, I expressed my disbelief that the National Heritage listed wetlands of Lake Cowal — and all the waters downstream — had been put under great threat from Canadian giant Barrick Gold’s open-cut cyanide leach goldmining right next to it. The Wiradjuri people and their supporters have been [...]
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Exisle, my publishers, have made a special arrangement for my web site visitors — you can buy Mountain Tails at a special 20 per cent discount by ordering from the Exisle website and quoting the coupon number MT2009; you can use that coupon any number of times.
A candid meander through my life up here on my remote mountain wildlife refuge, answering the oft-asked question 'Why do you live way out there?'
