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Not easy being green

Thursday, 26 June 2008 -It is not just whaling that is teaching a new government that it is not easy being green; petrol is proving to be a far more difficult issue. more

Taking their harpoon home

Thursday, 26 June 2008 - Don't make promises that you can't keep is not a bad rule for politicians as Peter Garrett, Kevin Rudd and the Sydney Daily Telegraph are about to find out. Before the last election Labor in Opposition thought promising to push hard to stop the Japanese whaling in southern waters was a vote winning thing to do. Now in Government, but having raised the expectations of whale lovers throughout the land, Labor is finding that being anti-whaling is not so easy. more

Germans have acted, will Australia?

Monday, 19 May 2008 - The crisis in the Rhine Valley of the bees being killed by agricultural chemicals has seen the Federal German Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) ban a wide range of insecticides including at least one being sold in Australia by Bayer. more

Rod on the spot

Monday, 10 March 2008 - The campaign against the use of plastic bags relies heavily on stories of damage to marine animals, which inadvertently gobble them up, to gain public sympathy.

The ABC news website at the weekend illustrated the problem with a picture of a turtle with a large fragment of a blue plastic bag hanging out of its mouth that was "supplied" by a Rod Prendergast. more

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