Habitat Australia articles from June 2001

Habitat Australia archives from June 2001

Casual SA vacancies. (green Views).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Nominations are invited from members to fill two ACF Council vacancies in South Australia. Each nominee and seconder must be an ACF member. Nominations must be received at ACF's Melbourne office, 340 Gore St, Fitzroy VIC 3065 by close of...

Money, money, money. (green Views).
June 1, 2001... Trying to find somewhere to ethically invest a recent inheritance has proved a daunting task. Contacts with advertisers in Habitat and a few of the larger mainstream investment agencies produced a 30cm high stack of "invest with us" style...

Core values? (green Views).(sustainability)
June 1, 2001... At the end of the 19th century our shared core values cemented the Federation of Australia. A hundred years later, can we still rely on these values to guide us through our ever-changing techno-society? Australia's participation in the...

Rank ranking. (green Views).
June 1, 2001... After probably less than a minute of keen anticipation when I found that ACF was assessing Australian listed companies (`ACF's not-so-hot 100' Feb), I found myself dismayed at how ACF scored particular companies. Optus, for instance, which...

Tela transport. (green Views).
June 1, 2001... The latest paper in ACF's Tela series was launched in March. Transport and the Environment by Patrick Moriarty was launched in Melbourne by Simon Molesworth, President of the Environment Institute of Australia. The paper argues that on both an...

Anti-nuclear slide shows. (green Views).
June 1, 2001... ACF has produced two slide show kits. One is about the Jabiluka Uranium Mine, and the other, titled `Australia at the Nuclear Crossroads,' is a more general view of Australia's involvement in the nuclear industry. Each kit consists of about 30...

In memory. (green Views).
June 1, 2001... ACF has received donations in memory of or in lieu of flowers for the following people: Ms I Boxall Mr Theo Delgrosso Phil Dickinson Ken Digby Mardie Gibson Peter Harding Bill Henderson Jill Hudson David Hussey Ted Pain...

Membership milestones. (green Views).
June 1, 2001... ACF congratulates and sincerely thanks the following people who, in the months of April and May 2001, celebrated 25 and 30 years of ACF membership. 30 years Mr C Bayliss, Nedlands, WA Mr G Bull, Orange, NSW Mr P Burnett, Waverton,...

A word from the executive director.(key conservation issues)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... If you pause and look back over the last 12 months, it's exciting to realise how much progress ACF is achieving on key conservation issues. For the first time in Australia's history we've seen the Federal and state governments agree a National...

Ministers must fix strategy. (Salinity Campaign).(Murray-Darling Basin)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Rising salt would soon overtake efforts to protect farms, water supplies and wildlife habitat unless Murray-Darling ministers fixed some serious flaws in the region's Salinity Strategy, ACF warned in late March. The warning comes as the...

Government pays for disinformation. (Genetic Engineering Campaign).(Australian Biotechnology Association contribution)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Federal Government's gift of $450,000 to the Australian Biotechnology Association promotes a gene technology industry that can't deliver on its wild promises, ACF said in late March. The Association should be bankrolled by its corporate...

Budget leak reveals spending cuts. (ACF Campaigns).(Australian Conservation Foundation fights environmental funding cuts)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Budget papers leaked in April reveal signs the Howard Government is contemplating a significant drop in environment expenditure, ACF said. In the lead up to the federal election, ACF called on both major parties to commit to scaling up, not...

Australia the loser on climate change. (Greenhouse Campaign).(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization report)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The release in May by the CSIRO of a report on projections and impacts of climate change for Australia puts the heat on both major political parties to back those countries seeking to ratify and implement the Kyoto greenhouse protocol by next...

Initial Kakadu move welcomed. (Anti-Nuclear Campaign).(Rio Tinto PLC's Kakadu National Park uranium mining plans)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... ACF welcomed the news in late March of increased doubts over the future of the Jabiluka uranium project inside Kakadu National Park. The comments, made by Rio Tinto CEO Leigh Clifford on the third anniversary of the start of the Jabiluka...

ACF supports Hill's call for Murray mouth flows. (Healthy Rivers Campaign).(Australian Conservation Foundation supports Environment Minister Robert Hill)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... ACF has expressed strong support for Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill's call to the Murray-Darling Ministerial Council to aim for increased flows at the mouth of the Murray River. ACF Land and Water Coordinator Tim Fisher said...

Let's get ethical. (Corporate Environmental Responsibility Campaign).(ethical investing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... ACF has called on the Federal Government to ensure Australians are no longer kept in the dark about the ethical credentials of superannuation and other investment products. ACF Legal Adviser Michael Kerr said in April that the Federal...

Remove GST from public transport to ease petrol burden. (Greenhouse Campaign).(tax policy)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... In April ACF called on the Federal Government to remove the GST from public transport fares, as petrol prices soared above a dollar a litre in many parts of Australia. Releasing a detailed report on petrol pricing and how Australia can...

ACF President Peter Garrett at the opening of Environment House in Perth on 7 March. (campaign Trails).(Australian Conservation Foundation)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
June 1, 2001... ACF President Peter Garrett at the opening of Environment House in Perth on 7 March. Environment House is ACF's new Western Australian Campaign Centre. In collaboration with the Community Anti-Nuclear Network of WA and Friends of the Earth...

Development in East Timor. (Asia-Pacific Campaign).(Australian Conservation Foundation to help train Fundacao Haburas)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... ACF has been granted funding from AusAID for a two-year capacity building project with Fundacao Haburas, a new environmental organisation in East Timor, it was announced in May. This will enable ACF to share its skills and expertise, as well...

A changing climate for the Kyoto Protocol? As expected, George W Bush and his oil industry cronies have thrown a large spanner in the works of the Kyoto Protocol, in the process letting countries like Australia off the hook.
June 1, 2001... IN APRIL THIS YEAR, Environment Minister Robert Hill took to the podium in Washington to defend the Bush Administration's position on the Kyoto Protocol, the charter that is supposed to set greenhouse-gas-reduction standards for the nations of...

Shaking the can: the generosity of ACF's donors directly determines the organisation's ability to achieve outcomes for the environment. As Rebecca Kaye explains, donors help ACF remain independent and outspoken, and provide the resources for campaigns that can take years to come to fruition, as well as allowing the organisation to respond to issues that arise overnight.(Australian Conservation Foundation)
June 1, 2001... THE PAST 12 MONTHS have seen ACF's campaigns achieve some real and lasting outcomes. * The Snowy River is set to have water flows restored. * The Blue Mountains have been World Heritage listed. * Australian governments have...

Australia ... a salt of the earth. (Special Habitat Supplement).(National Salinity Action Plan)
June 1, 2001... It was only a short while ago that salinity was widely viewed as just a farming issue, or a tricky scientific problem. These days it's front-page news and increasingly seen by many -- including politicians and key business leaders -- as one of...

2050: a salt odyssey.(dryland salinity)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Nationally, the total area of land affected by dryland salinity is expected to rise from nearly 6 million hectares in 2000 to over 17 million hectares by 2050. This map represents the best assessment of the spread of salinity over the next...

Splitting the atom, dividing communities.(Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization's plans for nuclear reactor)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... BOB MENZIES WAS PM, the Aussie dollar didn't exist, and the world had not heard of Chernobyl when contractors from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission began clearing bushland south of Sydney as the site for a new nuclear research reactor in...

Ten points to rescuing the Murray: the excitement around the Olympics and the Centenary of Federation has shown that Australians love to get behind a big idea. And no idea is bigger -- and no project more timely -- than saving the artery of the east, the Murray River. As Stuart Blanch explains, ACF's Ten Point Plan sets out the steps needed to revive this wasting waterway.(Australian Conservation Foundation)
June 1, 2001... THERE'S BEEN A LOT of excitement around projects such as the Olympics, the Centenary of Federation and Alice-to-Darwin railway, but it's important to remember that events of national importance aren't always about medals, flags and engineering....

Saving forests through competition.(agroforestry)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... FOR MORE THAN 30 years ACF has campaigned to move industrial timber production from our native forests into properly planned plantation estates. ACF's policy is based on the belief that Australia is incapable of harvesting wood from native...

Predicting the green future.(Mittagong Forum conference)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... INDIVIDUALS PLANTING trees to stop land degradation. Protesters outside a World Trade Organisation meeting. Lobbyists arguing for change at the World Bank. All of these people are part of an increasingly diverse and rapidly growing global...

Ideas in print. (consuming Choices).
June 1, 2001... To Touch a Wild Dolphin Rachel Smolker Random House, Australia $27.95 Rachel Smolker has studied dolphins at Monkey Mia for 15 years, and in that time has greatly contributed to the increase in knowledge of dolphins and their...

A blinding question. (consuming Choices).
June 1, 2001... We recently purchased a set of timber venetian blinds sourced from "plantation timber" from a well-known homewares retailer. Without singling out this particular company, because I know many sellers of timber products make this claim, I have a...

REACHing for a better world. (ACF Member Profile).(Ted Roland)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... FOR THE PAST few decades at conservation meetings, conferences and rallies in New South Wales one constant could be relied upon -- a quiet, unassuming, elderly man whose dedication to the environment is an abiding passion. No matter where the...