Environment effects


Baillieu govt one year on: a ‘let ‘er rip’ approach to environment

The new Victorian government has systematically dismantled environmental protections and determinedly ignored its stewardship responsibilities to the environment, write Sandi Keane and David Donovan of Independent Australia.

Carbon taxes and the ghosts of politicians past

As the latest carbon price package makes its way through parliament, Fergus Green takes a trip down memory lane.

The destruction of Australia’s most productive food bowl

Australia’s most productive agricultural region, the Liverpool Plains in North-West NSW, is under siege from BHP Billiton and coal and gas companies, writes Rosemary Nankivell.

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