On September 1, the federal government decided to withdraw from the forest assessment process for north-east NSW. The assessments are the basis for 20-year regional forest agreements between governments, the timber industry and
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While the Coalition and ALP are debating a GST, the Australian Greens and Australian Conservation Foundation president Peter Garrett are calling for "ecological taxes" instead. Last raised in 1995, proposals for a carbon tax in
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On August 9, the Australian Greens announced their national Senate team. Greens Senator Bob Brown predicted the party would win extra seats in the eastern states and retain the seat held by Dee Margetts from the WA Greens. In
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Population policy: no answer to environmental problemsOpposition leader Kim Beazley on August 3 responded to the focus on immigration occasioned by Pauline Hanson and One Nation by renewing the ALP's call for a population
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Supposedly one the world's best controlled fisheries, the cod fishery in the Barents Sea, north of Scandinavia, is on the verge of biological collapse. This is the only remaining cod fishery in the world and is the last in a
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Festival educates and organisesSYDNEY — The Wild Spaces film festival, held here June 19-21, presented a wide range of important issues using various film formats. If it continues and branches out, as festival organiser Gary
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Yet another round of changes to entry requirements for immigrants has reaffirmed the Coalition government's commitment to ensuring that business gets the migrant labour it needs without taking on any of the cost of settling the
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From space, big coral reefs like the Great Barrier Reef are the only visible evidence of life on earth besides human cities and structures. Hundreds of different coral species create reefs, in which a quarter of all marine plants
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The Great Barrier Reef is considered one of the most preserved reefs in the world. But for how long? Loopholes in legislation and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's "multiple use" management approach mean its survival
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Red and greenThe warning signals feature on the news each night: fires in Indonesia, chunks of the Antarctic ice sheet breaking off, global soil erosion of 74 billion tonnes per year, the El Niño event and climate
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Even as the blockade at ERA's Jabiluka uranium mine site was broken up by the Tactical Response Group last week, the campaign to stop uranium mining in Kakadu was gathering support. That support is founded on a widespread
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Eden report releasedThe Resource and Conservation Assessment Council released its options report for the first NSW regional forest agreement on May 15. Four options were presented after a comprehensive regional assessment into