Search Results: conservation
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 02 April 2007
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Pollution released by high-flying jets directly into the atmosphere is up to four times as damaging as the same amount released at ground level. Increasingly people are prepared to spend significant money to salve their consciences over flying.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Binoy Kampmark
- 24 December 2006
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The story of Irwin's life, already being written, will conclude that he was a good conservationist, a global ambassador for protecting 'dangerous' animals. But how can the owner of a zoo be worthy of such a title? Zoos are enclosures that imply a loss of sanctuary and celebrate the subjugation of nature. From 19 September 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 18 September 2006
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The story of Irwin's life, already being written, will conclude that he was a good conservationist, a global ambassador for protecting 'dangerous' animals. But how can the owner of a zoo be worthy of such a title? Zoos are enclosures that imply a loss of sanctuary and celebrate the subjugation of nature.
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INFORMATION
- Geoffrey Laity
- 09 July 2006
Farmers and water
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 09 July 2006
Summertime, and the livin’s less easy—at least in southern Australia.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 07 July 2006
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 05 July 2006
The power of nature has been dominant this summer—the heat, the drought, the dust and the terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes, Maryanne Confoy
- 03 July 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.
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AUSTRALIA
Commonwealth cousins Australia and Canada are headed toward distinctly different futures
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Ruth Lovell savours Tiepolo’s Cleopatra by Jaynie Anderson.
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ENVIRONMENT
It has been one of those Australian summers where nature has been dominant. The heat, the drought, the dust and the ever-present, terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Radhika Gorur
- 31 May 2006
Radhika Gorur reviews Brigid Hains’ The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier.
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