Here is a photo of the view from my tent on the edge of a cliff, looking across the ocean from the northern tip of Arnhem Land. It’s where I have been for a couple of weeks so now you can see why I haven’t done the last two editions of Real Dirt, Fast! Apologies. [...]
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Real Dirt, Fast – 28 August
August 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Real Dirt Fast
This Week’s Environmental News in Three Minutes…. This is an era that calls for tough talk and Real Dirt wishes there were more tough talkers around, which is a pity that a little Australian with a name befitting a wharfie pub brawler faces extinction. The Aussie in question is the Growling Grass Frog and by [...]
Tags: Business Council of Australia·climate change·growling grass frog·pulp mill·sea level rise
Real Dirt, Fast – 21 August
August 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Real Dirt Fast
Kimberley wilderness property, Marion Downs – purchase announced this week by Australian Wildlife Conservancy (story below) It’s hard not to feel sorry for the baby whale in Pittwater, north of Sydney, but it is also a really striking example of how confused our priorities can get when it comes to animals. The story – by far the most [...]
Tags: climate change·private conservation·sea level rise·sharks·whales
Real Dirt, Fast – 14 August
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Real Dirt Fast
As the Georgians and Russians prepare this week to play with their fancy and very dangerous firecrackers in the Balkans we were reminded that humans have been red in tooth and claw for a very long time. One of the great slugging matches of Australian science, some would say our very own academic Balkans, is [...]
Real Dirt, Fast – 7 August
August 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Real Dirt Fast
We live in a small world. But this week for a brief moment it seemed a little larger than internet, 24 hour news, jet planes and the protestant work ethic would have us believe. I woke up on Wednesday morning to hear Fran Kelly on Radio National interviewing a researcher about the discovery of a [...]
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Real Dirt, Fast – 31 July
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Real Dirt Fast
To mutilate the Redgum song Diamantina Drover: And the carbon saga, goes on and on and excuses roll forever and I won’t be back ‘til the voting’s done. Readers could be forgiven this week for thinking they had woken up in a Groundhog Day of Emissions Trading Stories about who is going to do what, [...]
Tags: cassowary·climate change·emission trading·murray-darling
Real Dirt, Fast – July 23
July 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Real Dirt Fast
Remember when you were a kid and you’d sit at the kitchen bench with all of your pesky brothers and sisters looking at the Weet Bix box wondering who was going to get to the free cards first? As the sedimentary layers of shredded wheat bricks got lower and lower, someone would finally decide to [...]
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Real Dirt, Fast – July 17
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Real Dirt Fast
So God’s man in Australia, Cardinal George Pell says he is skeptical about climate change science. We need to populate or perish, he warned this week – another denier outed. There should be a law against him annoying and inconveniencing us rather than the other way around. And, the other good news by the way [...]
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Real Dirt, Fast – July 11
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Real Dirt Fast
My favourite moment of environmental news this week was Professor Ross Garnaut disparagingly dismissing the NSW Treasurer, Michael Costa, as a well known ‘denier’ of climate change science.When the professor said these words he looked as though he had swotted an annoying fly.
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Real Dirt, Fast – July 3
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Real Dirt Fast
It was the week of the whale. Or should we say whales? Unfortunately both of them seem to have gotten away. The International Whaling Commission degenerated into a farce with Peter Garrett and his staffers sitting amongst the crowd of delegates on the world stage with furrowed brows. And the biggest policy challenge facing the [...]
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