Sending in our surrogate protestors - The Wilderness Society's Plushie Protest On some days I am not proud to be an Australian. “A Recipe for Extinction” Under the cover of the Pandemic and in thrall to mining companies and their lobbyists, the Australian Government is pushing through laws which will diminish the limited environmental protections which we have. With the promise of “slashing Green Tape” it will allow the States to make development decisions, rather than having enforceable national standards and retaining some kind of oversight - i.e. an independent watchdog, to make sure that we protect what is left of our natural heritage and to ensure that we meet our international obligations with regard to maintaining and restoring biodiversity. The Australian Branch of the World Wildlife Fund calls it ‘a recipe for extinction’ as if Australia wasn’t already failing many species even before the bushfires as well presiding over one of...
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