Habitat Australia articles from October 1998

Habitat Australia archives from October 1998

green VIEWS.
October 1, 1998... AGM, 14 November The 32nd Annual General Meeting of the Australian Conservation Foundation will be held in Melbourne at 7.00 pm on Saturday 14 November 1998 at ACF headquarters, 340 Gore St, Fitzroy. Agenda items must be submitted in...

campaign TRAILS.
October 1, 1998... Jabiluka Campaign Jabiluka Hotline The Jabiluka Hotline has been set up to increase awareness of the Jabiluka campaign to stop ERA's uranium mine at Jabiluka within Kakadu National Park, and to promote the campaign through one central...

30 years between drinks: THE SNOWY RIVER.
October 1, 1998... You won't find many buildings more than thirty years old in the town of Jindabyne, at the gateway to the Snowy Mountains National Park. Most of the original township lies under Lake Jindabyne, a dam that was filled in the 1960s by holding back...

THE DON THING.
October 1, 1998... In early July, Don Henry found himself back on the beaches and in the forests where it all started. Moreton Island is one of the string of great sand islands off the southern Queensland coast. Like nearby Stradbroke Island, it has long...

Bilbies' call of the wild.
October 1, 1998... The sale of chocolate bilbies is again being used to support bilby conservation projects across Australia. ACF and Coles Supermarkets have developed a strong and unique partnership to raise funds for bilby conservation and to ensure that...

The environmental yardstick: attention all parties!
October 1, 1998... An environmental yardstick for the 1998 Federal Election has been compiled by a coalition of environment groups comprising ACF, the Wilderness Society and state conservation councils from around Australia. The yardstick represents key...

Taxing performances: the Coalition, Labor and the environment.
October 1, 1998... Taxation has become the number one election issue -- the Coalition's GST-centred tax reform package versus Labor's tinkering around the edges of the existing structure. At first glance, this election's focus on taxation would appear to have...

What happened to that Telstra money for the environment?
October 1, 1998... The Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) was the centrepiece of the Coalition's environment platform during the 1996 election campaign, promised in return for the part-sale of Telstra. As a result, a total of $1.25 billion for special projects was made...

Senate Inquiry submissions give the thumbs down to new environment law.
October 1, 1998... There has been a strong public response to the Senate Inquiry into the federal government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Bill (1998). So far, over 600 submissions have been received from a Wide range of community...

Talking Shop.
October 1, 1998... Just before Easter this year, a special delivery was made to the ACF Shop in Sydney. The new shop manager, Jeff Poole, arrived. When Jeff noticed the job advertised in the newspaper, he recognised it immediately as a way to match his...

Barking up the wrong tree.
October 1, 1998... Like oil, orange juice and pork bellies, carbon has become a commodity to be traded on the stock exchange. Since the Kyoto Conference in December last year, countries who are a party to the Climate Change Convention have begun looking for ways...

consuming choices.
October 1, 1998... Having trouble finding organically grown leeks, fitting an energy-saving light bulb, disposing of the paint tins in the shed, deciding which direction to face your new water tank? In this new Habitat feature we hope to help you with the...

Solar systems.
October 1, 1998... Adrienne Reid of Finch Hatton, in Queensland, wrote in to Habitat, questioning the effectiveness of her solar power system. In 1980 my partner and I left Darwin in search of a piece of paradise with good water, unpolluted soil and a...

your council.
October 1, 1998... ACF's 37-member Council contributes diverse skills and experience to ACF's national campaigning strength. In November 1997 the members of ACF elected councillors in each state and territory to represent their views about ACF's direction and...

Winning the West's environment.
October 1, 1998... ACF will be stepping up it's Campaigning in Western Australia From this month. David Sutton has been appointed as Project Officer under ACF's WA State Plan. Having moved to Perth two years ago from his position as Coordinator for the North...