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Environmental activism 2021: An act of love by @margokingston1

February 15, 2021

First published on Echo NETDAILY February 11, 2021. A long time ago, maybe 20 years, I mentioned climate change in conversation with Professor David Flint, a man who proclaims his deep conservatism and convened Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy. He laughed, saying a stray meteorite would blow up the planet someday, so we may as well do […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ClimateAction, #ClimateEmergency, #ClimateStrike, #KingstonReports, #leardblockade, Activism, Front Page, Margo Kingston Tagged With: #auspol, #climateaction, #ClimateStrike, #leardblockade, Activism

Corruption? Let’s remind ourselves of Joh: @margokingston1 comments

February 5, 2021

First published on Echo NETDAILY January 18, 2021. As a Brisbane teenager in Sir Joh’s stifling, authoritarian, corrupt police state, I’d buy a Nation Review each week to read Mungo on federal politics. His dark humour grounded in passionate belief gave me a way to see a Queensland politics that had hope in it. When I mentioned […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #KingstonReports, Front Page, ICAC, Margo Kingston Tagged With: #independentsday, Federal ICAC, Independents

Narrabri coal seam gas – where are we up to? @Ppl4Plains reports #Pilliga and #LockTheGate

August 14, 2020

For over ten years, the threat of a gasfield in the Pilliga State Forest to the south of Narrabri has hung over our heads. People for the Plains is a local group that first gathered in 2013 to educate ourselves and the broader community about the gasfield threats and I have been part of that […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ClimateAction, #ClimateEmergency, #lockthegate, #Pilliga, Activism, CJ CSG Reports, CSG, CSG Features, Environment, Front Page, Grass roots politics, Sally Hunter, Sally Hunter

Musings in #coronavirusworld: @margokingston1 comments

May 8, 2020

Hello. It’s been a while. My last published piece was an editorial before the federal election. Two months later my plan to write an #IndependentsDay book ended when my mother was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia the day after my 60th birthday. Solitude in the home my mother and I shared for 14 years. Solitude spent taking […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #coronavirusworld, #covid19au, #IndependentsDay, #KingstonReports, #transitzone, Front Page, Margo Kingston, MargoFrontPagePin

Scale and implications of #KoalaKillers crime still unknown: @jansant reports on #SpringSt

February 5, 2020

Since No Fibs published the first news story on the Portland Koala Massacre, the number of dead, injured, starving and trapped koalas on the Victorian blue gum timber plantation near Cape Bridgewater is no clearer. According to a Rob Hadler, spokesperson for South West Fibre (SWF) – the company who carried out an approved timber […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #AustralianBushfires, #ClimateAction, #ClimateEmergency, #ClimateStrike, #koalakillers, #SpringSt, Climate Change, Front Page, Wayne Jansson Tagged With: #auspol, #AustralianBushfires, #climateaction, #climateemergency, #ClimateStrike, #koalakillers, #springst, climate change

Gruesome koala massacre during logging operations in Victoria: @jansant reports #springst

February 2, 2020

Unknown numbers of koalas – possibly hundreds – have been killed during plantation logging operations south west of Portland in Victoria this week. Friends of the Earth (FOE) reported koalas were left to starve after logging operations in late December 2019. Last week, surviving koalas were bulldozed into slash piles, along with the bodies of […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #AustralianBushfires, #ausvotes, #bushfirecrisis, #ClimateAction, #ClimateEmergency, #SpringSt, Environment, Front Page, Wayne Jansson Tagged With: #auspol, #AustralianBushfires, #bushfirecrisis, #climateaction, #climateemergency, #springst, Ausvotes, environment

Diary of an Orbost climate refugee: @greengipps reports on #AustralianBushfires

January 12, 2020

There’s nothing special about me this week. I’m one of many hundreds, maybe thousands, worried about their homes burning down. My home in Cabbage Tree Creek, East Gippsland, might be burning as I write. I have a fire bunker which was about to get installed when the fires started and now no heavy machinery available. […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #AustralianBushfires, #bushfirecrisis, #ClimateAction, #ClimateEmergency, #ClimateStrike, #PeoplesClimate, #stopAdani, #VicVotes, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Front Page, Grass roots politics, Scott Campbell-Smith Tagged With: #auspol, #AustralianBushfires, #bushfirecrisis, #climateaction, #climateemergency, #ClimateStrike, #peoplesclimate, #stopAdani, #VicVotes, climate change, Energy, environment, Front Page, Grass roots politics, Scott Campbell-Smith

Let’s get together on climate change and take the government on SERIOUSLY: @margokingston1 crazy idea for @NoFibs #ClimateStrike

December 15, 2019

Having been immersed in US and British politics for a while, and seen how groups with common core values can’t seem to get together to fight for them due to disagreements on other matters, I noticed a tweet by Greens leader Richard di Natale. YES! Consider: The centre and centre right, (Steggall, Sharkie, Haines), centre […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ClimateAction, #ClimateStrike, #CurrentFibs, #KingstonReports, #YouthForFuture, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Front Page, Margo Kingston Tagged With: #auspol, #climateaction, #climatechange, #climateemergency, Democracy

Inside #Medevac team effort of community and Parliament: @drkerrynphelps in conversation with @margokingston1 #auspol

December 5, 2019

Kerryn: That was an extraordinary experience and Darrin and I worked hand-in-glove because I couldn’t have done without Darrin and his connections in the Labor Party. The Labor Party had been fiddle-farting around with its refugee policy for a really long time and they were completely paralysed, they weren’t game to step up and do […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #KingstonReports, #MediaMargo, election2019, Front Page, human rights, Margo Kingston, Refugees

Quiet leader of #ClimateEmergency: @burgewords #CarolSparks interview #NSWFires

November 10, 2019

Journalist Michael Burge interviewed Carol Sparks — mayor of Glen Innes Severn Shire Council in the NSW New England region — in 2019, before this week’s bushfires that have caused multiple fatalities and property losses, and continue to burn in conditions widely described as “unprecedented”. Here’s a glimpse of where Clr Sparks’ principled stand about climate […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ClimateWarriors, #NewEnglandVotes, election2019, Front Page, Michael Burge Tagged With: bushfires, Carol Sparks, climate emergency, Glen Innes Severn Shire