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Fire. (Devine).(bush fires around Sydney, Australia)
THE SOLE PURPOSE of civilisation is to defend us from nature. This sound advice is from Sigmund Freud. I think we ignore it at some peril.
However, Sydney, the acme of Australia's contribution to the maintenance and advance of civilisation, yet again flaunted its indifference to peril, and perhaps to civilisation, by welcoming the new year with another burst of bushfires, its second major conflagration in eight years. More recklessly than any other city I know, or have even heard of, Sydney absorbs systemic doses of nature in quantities that pose grave risk to its health.
It has 38,000 hectares of national park within its metropolitan boundaries, much of ...
- SA National Parks hopes Isidingo will prove a goldmine of young black...
- Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa) August 23, 2006 700+ words
...black people by writing national parks into the script of the South...television soapie, Isidingo. National Parks chief operating officer Sydney Soundy said in a briefing...where he presented the national parks budget, that most visitors...
- NSW: Shooting in national parks a dead duck, Macdonald says
- Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) July 29, 2009 700+ words
...NSW: Shooting in national parks a dead duck, Macdonald says SYDNEY, July 29 AAP...allow hunting in national parks is unlikely, the...shooting activity in national parks," Mr MacDonald told reporters in Sydney. "I wouldn't...
- NEW SOUTH WALES GOVT WON'T CLEAR NATIONAL PARKS FOR DEVELOPMENT.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News October 11, 2006 700+ words
SYDNEY, Oct 11 Asia Pulse - The NSW government...property developer Harry Triguboff for national parks surrounding Sydney to be bulldozed to make way for development...has told Fairfax newspapers that Sydney has too many forests and parks that...
- Wasting national parks. (uranium mining on public land)
- Magazine article from: Habitat Australia Sweeney, Dave Cowell, Ophelia April 1, 1997 700+ words
...This image will be a part of the continuing campaign to protect country and culture, and to end uranium mining. * Dave Sweeney and Ophelia Cowell are ACF uranium campaigners working out of the Melbourne and Sydney offices respectively.
- Clear-felled: two national parks in a year.
- Newspaper article from: Australasian Business Intelligence July 19, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Wendy Frew Jul 19, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New South Wales farmers illegally cleared about 30,000 hectares of native vegetation in...
- National parks at the heart of sustainable development.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 18, 2002 700+ words
...18 September 2002-UK Government: National parks at the heart of sustainable development...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09182002 National Parks are at the heart of the Government...Mr Michael told delegates that the National Parks are central to the Government's agenda...
- Canon National Parks Science Scholars Announced for 2002; Program Expanded to...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 28, 2002 700+ words
...WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2002 The Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program for the Americas...to include students and research in national parks throughout the Americas. The Americas...students throughout the region, the Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program for the Americas...
- National parks should help communities, report says; Call for added role in...
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) November 4, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Martin Shipton NATIONAL parks in Wales should be given a "third mission" to...to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first national parks. Wales has three national parks covering the Brecon Beacons, the Pembrokeshire...
