Quick link: cattle out of Alpine NP
ABC News: Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has given the Victorian Government until April 8 to get cattle out of the Alpine National Park…. He described the Victorian Government’s responses to his department’s requests for information about the trial as [...]
Quick link: Scientific whaling cattle grazing
The Age: CATTLE grazing has controversially returned to the Alpine National Park, under the banner of scientific research, after a five-year ban. Cattle yesterday began to trickle back into the park as part of a six-year study to assess the [...]
Little Australia and the population 'debate'
Bernard Keane has a good piece in this morning’s Crikey election special edition, reflecting on yesterday’s installment of the so-called population debate. Let’s remember that Julia Gillard linked the asylum seeker issue to infrastructure and sustainability issues in the first [...]
Population policy and political border control
As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]
Terror academics! Feud!
My colleague Terry Flew takes a look on his blog at the latest controversy over teh evils of postmodernism (and neo-Marxism!) in academia. In regard to The Australian, he writes: In two articles (Sat and Mon) referring to the Culture [...]
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