November 12, 2008 – 9:14 pm
This is a story about the ordinary and how easily we can slip from appreciating the beauty in those things we see every day or that we are told are pests and how we elevate our regard for the rare over the commonplace.
The Magpie Lark Grallina cyanoleuca is one of our most common birds, found [...]
November 12, 2008 – 3:23 pm
Now that rights to exist and persist have been recognised for nature and living things in the new Ecuadorean constitution, could Australia adopt a similar provision and would we want to?
November 12, 2008 – 1:59 pm
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has labelled the NT intervention safe house initiative a “massive stuff-up.”
15 months after Former Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough’s promise to provide safe houses at part of the NT intervention, not one of the 16 shipping-container based safe houses has opened its door for clients and no staff have been appointed [...]
November 7, 2008 – 4:08 pm
When Big Pete Garrett got to his feet in Parliament last month and announced that he would implement Labor’s long-held commitment to a resale royalty scheme for all Australian visual artists, he told the House that:
“This is a landmark and genuinely historic moment for the more than 20,000 Australian visual artists. The decision to introduce [...]
November 5, 2008 – 1:41 am
This glum-looking Collared Sparrowhawk, Accipiter cirrhocephalus, has been hanging around my back yard over the past few weeks – most likely lured in by the Zebra Finches, small Honeyeaters and other birds that crowd in for the water in the backyard. Here he, and I’m pretty sure it is a he – like many raptors [...]
