Have you ever heard nuclear energy advocates claim that all the used nuclear fuel from a person’s lifetime electricity use could fit in a soda can? Consider the cumulative waste, especially over the years, when applied to countries with large populations. That would amount to a lot of soda cans! Orano states that France produces…
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Populism
Barry Jones wrote, ‘Populist politics attacks reason, science, history, the arts, tolerance, diversity, the rule of law, ethics, liberal democracy and female liberation. It uses cruelty as a political weapon, reinforces racial stereotypes, refuses to recognise existential global crisis and asserts the greatest ambition for humanity is to get rich.’ Oz Patterson Nuggetty
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Silent slow cull
I read with horror an article published on the ABC News website, dated Friday 13 June 2025 headlined with ‘Kangaroo control streamlined for Victorian farmers facing drought’. I live in central Victoria where I have experienced and photographed, since the beginning of COVID, the wildlife slaughter that has been occurring on our major freeways and…
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Duck Shooting
The inherent and unavoidable cruelty in duck shooting outweighs all the arguments in favour of keeping a bloodsport that only a minimal amount of people actually want. Add in the negative impact on residents, visitors and tourism opportunities and there is no reason to allow duck shooting to continue. Here in central Victoria, the wetlands…
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