Oz Update

Well as I said in a previous post things have gotten somewhat interesting here in the land of Oz and not in a good way.  For a country that is supposed to pride itself about providing a ‘fair go’ for everyone we seem to be failing rather badly on a variety of fronts.  I don’t …

She’s Alive…Beautiful…Finite and Hurting – Thursday’s Thought for the Day

  Thank you to Tashi Witekauha for sharing Sanctuary Asia’s Clip with us – this world is a gift, a precious gift not an unlimited convenience store that can be restocked when it’s shelves are emptied.  We live because of it and to destroy its’ resources for greed and profit is to destroy ourselves. This world and all on it is …

Australia? Not For Much Longer if Abbott stays in Power

How do I begin this post? I typed introduction after introduction and each left me feeling at a loss.  It wasn’t until I took a step back that I realized that the issue wasn’t that I didn’t know what I wanted to say it was that I didn’t know how to say it without resorting …

Reef Facts – After We Stop the Spin by the QRC

Now everyone knows there is a certain amount of spin doctoring when it comes to advertising and media campaigns. The manipulation of data or the selective use of particular data is an effective tool that can be used without ACTUALLY lying. But the latest ads that have come out to support the coal industry via …

Trash Tales – To Boldly Go Before Us

    Well it appears that yet again we have sunk to all new depths and that my friends is not entirely sarcastic. It appears that in a recent survey of the ocean floor bottles, plastic bags, fishing gear, and various crap have been found as deep 4.5 kilometers below the surface, and in areas …

Little Thought for Thursday

Well now this is a lovely piece of snark from Smile – Be Happy, aimed at our illustrious Prime Minister and his minions. All of whom have just decided to gut funding into research, revoke funding for the environmental research and planning, increased the cost of medicare along with raising the age of the retirement …

What I’m Wondering this Wednesday.

What I’m wondering this Wednesday is precisely how does our state and federal government have the unmitigated gall to call for a boycott of an ‘ice-cream‘ company by saying they are bad for the Reef related Tourism.  This company, Ben & Jerry, are protesting the proposed dumping and dredging on the reef and offering free …

A Smile and a Few Thoughts for Monday

These images are courtesy of Greenpeace Africa and although is it meant to get a smile it also has a point as does the image below regarding solar energy So in all seriousness looking at the image below which is your choice in the overall scheme of things?

This Will Break Your Heart

I came across this video clip on Viral Protest for Australia’s Environment and simply couldn’t believe what I saw.  The images here show just what impact humanity has on this planet, even when we are not even there.  This is Midway Island and it has no human occupants, the majority of the wildlife is made …

Musing on Monday Morning

  While the description is a little generalized the intent behind it is utterly correct.  We’ve become a society so concentrated on micro-managing that we lose sight of the bigger problems. Or it may simply be that most feel overwhelmed or unwilling to deal with the larger issues and thus concentrate their efforts where they …