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All Victorians need to know why Premier Andrews  continues to prefer selfish and cruel duckshooting  over respect for the environment  and re-establishing a healthy tourist economy.

May I answer Wendy Logan in today’s Age: Our values are “mine it, log it, drill for it, crush, truck  and export it; then die in a pile of nuclear waste  and streams of leaking underground carbon gas”.  Forestry lies, … Continued

Aged 90, Jack died on Mothers’ Day. Jack Mundey was a leader in Australian society,  remembered most for the monumental “green bans” whereby the Builders’ Labourers’ Federation saved Sydney’s heritage buildings and environment. Thanks Jack for your support of Save … Continued

It is mother’s day season and as a mother I would like to say how much I valued all my pets  once my family grew and left – such happy memories. You may like to consider publishing this reply from … Continued

Who will speak up for a hospitality industry buried deep in the place called Apollo Bay, Victoria vibrant hard workers serving the Great Ocean Road  it staggered crashed and died  the day Asian tourists swiftly obediently evaporated amid gleeful rants, … Continued

Nothing iconic about wasting fuel, Holden or Ford Was it just clever design for vacant lots and cupidity– Australia and America are biggish continents anyway Maybe people value efficiency more, now and then.   We may remember Smithy and the Southern … Continued

I’m sure Bruce Pascoe deserves more awards than Bettina Arndt does. If he’s attending to fire near his home at Gypsy Point, Mallacoota and can’t appear at scheduled literary events through sheer exhaustion it is truly shameful–he’s one big truth … Continued

Apollo Bay’s residents and visitors need much more help regarding the threat of fire. The ‘place of last resort’ here is dangerous, being exposed to direct rays of sun on our foreshore and failing to offer basic resources. The detailed … Continued

Mummy, help me to learn the ABC, what’s CC? Not sure, dear. At school we only learned CW That’s how to get the cold war mentality and avoid Mutually Assured Destruction. We need to learn something about Mitigation really That … Continued

No-one writes more eloquently about the hazards  of burning rainforest than does David Lindenmayer,  ANU’s professor of forest ecology (the Age 040120). He says if rainforest trees are cut down, regrowth   “becomes more prone to high severity fire”. But I … Continued