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All things dull and ugly

Australian Politics, Environment, Qld Politics / August 25, 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

The headline on the Climate Spectator website said it all. “Approval of Adani’s mega coal mine overturned – for a skink and a snake, not a fried planet,” it read. The federal court’s decision, it went on, came down to “protecting two animals you’ve probably never heard of”: the Yakka Skink and the Ornamental Snake. […]

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Not pretty enough: an extinction under our nose

Environment / January 11, 2012 / 7 minutes of reading

“Why do you see, why do you see, why do you see right through me?” – Kasey Chambers Recently, my partner and I took a walk up in the forests of Mt Mee, at the northern end of the D’Aguilar Range about an hour’s drive from Brisbane. We had a specific purpose: we were searching

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