The Liberals Swift Parrot Extinction Plan
In an extraordinary abrogation of his duty, Minister for the Environment, Roger Jaensch dodged his responsibility to protect the swift parrot from extinction.
In an extraordinary abrogation of his duty, Minister for the Environment, Roger Jaensch dodged his responsibility to protect the swift parrot from extinction.
It is the most viewed article on the Guardian Australia's website and it has been widely distributed across the country.
Your giant tree policy is a sham that does not even protect our largest example of Tasmania's flowering emblem, Lathamus Keep.
I am showing the House a photo that was taken in recent days, near the Florentine Valley.
The Greens strongly support the huge protest action being held by the Bob Brown Foundation today, and thank all those who have attended
The right to peaceful protest in Australia is deeply ingrained and held by all of us. It is part of our identity. It is a core value of the Tasmanian Greens.
Tasmania has both the greatest carbon-rich stores of native forest in the country and the most substantial intact ecosystems remaining in Australia.
Rebecca White has again shown her Labor party is in lockstep with the Liberals, supporting continued widespread logging and burning of native forests.
It does what all animals do to survive: it goes to where the food is. That is the beauty of the swift parrot.
It is one of just three migratory parrots in the world, two are Tasmanian resident. It has the longest-known migration of any parrot.