Rachel Siewert is an Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia. !– if (typeof showPhotos == ‘function’) showPhotos(’2283633-mediarss.xml’); –> !– if (typeof showPhotos == ‘function’) showPhotos(’2283633-mediarss.xml’); –>At the end of March, Environment Minister Peter Garrett finally announced the Government’s new environment funding package ‘Caring for Our Country’. I say ‘finally’ because the funding under the Natural [...]
Entries from June 27th, 2008
Real Dirt, Fast June 26
June 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Real Dirt Fast
The big, serious story of this week is rising sea levels… Nature magazine published new research by a team of Australian and US scientists. They foundthe world’s oceans warmed and rose at a rate 50 per cent faster in the last four decades of the 20th century than documented in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
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Nuclear Waterworld
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Blog
Last week’s Nature paper warning that sea level rise will be faster than previously thought brought back a vivid memory for me. In 1995 I was sent to Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia to cover the last French Nuclear tests. It was one of the strangest experiences I have ever had. The island was controlled [...]
Tags: climate change
Going for green in the renovation nation
June 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Caitlin McGee Principal Research Consultant Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney Last year my workplace had its tenth birthday party. The invited speaker was Hugh Mackay, well-known social researcher and author of Advance Australia Where? He told of being seated next to a woman at a dinner party whose entire conversation revolved [...]
Bring Back the Bullockies
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Blog
A few years ago I met a bullocky on the south coast who swore that the day would come when it would be economical for him to use his steers for real jobs rather than just as an attraction at country fairs.Watching how he worked in the bush – the way that his mob of [...]
Tags: transport
