Category: Opinion

A plea to his own government for stronger action on climate change by Warren Entsch, Federal Member for Leichardt and Special Envoy to the Reef, has won the applause of the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS).

If Trump wins the Presidential election in November, it means only one of two things: that either he has succeeded in cheating at the election by stymying mail voting and undermining the election’s legitimacy, or that the American people have genuinely re-elected him despite his dangerously erratic foreign-policy forays; his destructive trade policies; his employment of toadies and cronies and his supplicancy to autocrats and dictators. Indeed, they would have endorsed those actions. Either way, the US would be neither a worthwhile ally nor a worthy one.

The Morrison government has confirmed today that every Australian will receive a free coronavirus vaccine dose.
The Federal government has signed an agreement to secure a minimum of 25 million doses with British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Victorians should be proud today; their hard work during Phase 4 lockdown is now paying off. And all Australians should say “Thank you, Victoria!”

The Daintree Coast contains some iconic and familiar landscapes, from the wet tropical rainforests to the Great Barrier Reef, and the complicated labyrinth of mangrove systems in between. What most people don’t know is that these various systems are intricately interdependent. In reality they are not separate systems at all, but three parts of a fantastically complex whole.

Mayor Kerr – it must feel great to just “know” things! I listened to the Special Council Meeting yesterday regarding Lot 83. Mayor Kerr repeatedly…

Why did it take a pandemic to implement a change of heart for so many of our vital government policies?
When the pandemic ends, we’ll be demanding a fairer system…what went wrong?
And what will the future look like?

The three leading coronavirus vaccines, Oxford / AstraZeneca, Moderna, and CanSino, are currently undergoing Phase 3 trials, one in the US, one in Brazil, and one in Brazil and South Africa.

The lock-down in Melbourne and the lockout here in Queensland are both helping Australia move towards possible eradication of COVID.

Days like these make us all realise that we live in Paradise!