By this author
Opinion August 22, 2020
The end of the environment
“The prime minister’s post-Covid-19 plan is to roar ahead with a slate of mega-projects that would be delayed by any proper consideration of their environmental and Indigenous heritage impacts. While the EPBC Act rarely leads to any project being given …”
Opinion February 09, 2019
The Stop Adani Convoy
“I am 74 and acutely aware that our planet is hotter than when I was a boy, due to the burning of fossil fuels. Storms, droughts and bushfires are all the worse, as predicted 30 years ago. Yet the rate of burning of fossil fuels is still growing in 2019, …”
Opinion July 20, 2019
The Robbins Island wind farm debate
“The Australian moved in for the kill last week. Back-to-back front pages, on Monday and Tuesday, after I sounded the alarm about the impact on endangered birds if the Robbins Island wind farm in Tasmania’s north-west goes ahead. Backed up by …”
Opinion September 02, 2017
Malcolm Turnbull caves in to Tasmanian loggers
“Turnbull effectively signed the death warrant on forests in a whole brace of reserves. He also endorsed logging of 159 forest coupes already listed by Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman for clear-felling in other Tarkine forests, including in the headquarters …”
Take a stand
while sitting down.
Subscribe to The Saturday Paper
for less than $2 a week.
