Habitat Australia articles from June 1998

Habitat Australia archives from June 1998

DESK DIARY.(environmental protection issues)
June 1, 1998... Items of interest that have landed on the Habitat desk. Don't forget East Gippsland EGG dropped in with a reminder from East Gippsland The East Gippsland Group (EGG) is continuing the campaign in defence of old-growth forest in...

CAMPAIGN TRAILS.(environmental political activity)
June 1, 1998... An update on ACF's campaign activities ACF's Website ACF is currently redeveloping its website, which is expected to be launched in the coming month at the address www.acfonline.org.au. Look out for the site next time you're on the...

WA can't cotton on.(Western Australia)
June 1, 1998... The damming of the Fitzroy River, the largest river in the Kimberley, is firmly on the Western Australian government's agenda. This was the message delivered to environment groups recently. After calling for expressions of interest to...

Black holes and telephone money.
June 1, 1998... What will happen to the environment budget when the phone money starts running out in 2001? Can we expect to see the Coca-Cola Kakadu, or the McDonald's Murray-Darling? Treasurer Peter Costello's much vaunted `back in the black' budget was...

Gwynnyth Taylor 1915 - 1998.
June 1, 1998... Karen Alexander farewells a special and talented campaigner for the environment. I can see her now -- tall, her warm face capped by a beret and matching scarf. She's behind two long tables covered by indigenous plants and a wide variety of...

Earhtkids unleashed.
June 1, 1998... ACF launched its junior environment club back in August 1995. From small beginnings, Earthkids has grown to become an important part of ACF activities. It is an invaluable link between the `big issues' on which we campaign at a national level,...

OCEANS POLICY: PROVIDING A SAFER HARBOUR.
June 1, 1998... Oceans are now recognised by the international community as fragile, essential environments that must be managed through the cooperative efforts of all nations. Despite this, around the world, fisheries are collapsing, pollution and siltation...

QUEENSLAND: Framework for sustainability.
June 1, 1998... The support by citizens for improved environmental protection and management has put pressure on governments to take environment issues more seriously -- even in Queensland. During the past two decades we have seen environment policy being...

TASMANIA: Forests exposed.
June 1, 1998... The Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) between the Commonwealth and Tasmanian governments signed in November last year has continued to be met with loud disapproval from the conservation movement in Tasmania. The prime minister's car was blocked...

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Knowledge into action.
June 1, 1998... SEER, or Sustainable Environments through Education and Research, is a new university cross-campus association in Western Australia, which aims to provide a variety of services to the broader community, toward the implementation of Agenda 21....

Volunteering value.
June 1, 1998... ACF's volunteer program has received a boost in the form of a $40,000 grant that will be used to consolidate our existing program and develop new ways in which volunteers can contribute to ACF's work. The grant comes from the National...

Mojo rising ...
June 1, 1998... You might be wondering what's behind the ad on the back page of this Habitat. ACF has recently entered into a major partnership with the national advertising agency Mojo Partners. Wishing to broaden the reach of ACF's message, ACF took the...

Bringing back the WESTERN WOODLANDS.
June 1, 1998... If you put `Sydney' and `natural environment' together in your mind, you will probably conjure up images of beautiful beaches or the rugged sandstone bushland of the Kur-ing-gai or Blue Mountains national parks. Think `western Sydney' and...

Celebrating MULLUM MULLUM.(Australia)
June 1, 1998... Mullum Mullum Creek began appearing on European maps in the 1850s, as the gently undulating lands to Melbourne's east were surveyed in preparation for pastoral expansion further up the Yarra Valley. Despite the widespread land clearing that...