Faces of the 2014 election campaign - Lance Lessels
About four years ago I felt that I must take an active part in environmental protection, protection of the natural environment, and that governments were not putting sufficient effort into addressing...
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100 Days countdown: The hot environment issues this election.
On 29 November Victorians will head to the polls to cast judgement on the Napthine Government. With just 100 days to go until polling day Environment Victoria CEO Mark Wakeham takes a looks at the hot...
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Introducing our new Campaigns Director, Alex White
Our new Campaigns Director, Alex White, starts today. Here's what he has to say about why he came to Environment Victoria.Back in 2012, I spent three months working on the Obama campaign in Boston and...
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Faces of the 2014 election campaign - Kylie Rhie-Jones
I had been aware and concerned about climate change for many years and had been trying hard to engage people around me on this issue. I started attending rallies, letter writing events and phone banks...
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Victoria squanders the chance to help its rivers
The Victorian has missed a golden opportunity to get a massive environmental gain for minimal financial pain. They have ignored a once-in-five-year chance to halt a threatening process listed under the...
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VEET granted a stay of execution
If you had a program that was reducing household energy costs, cutting greenhouse emissions and creating jobs, you’d think any government would be keen to keep it, right?Wrong. The Napthine government...
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Preventing the PreventablePolicy Options for Accelerating Coal Mine Rehabilitation and Creating Jobs in the Latrobe Valley
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Preventing the PreventablePolicy Options for Accelerating Coal Mine Rehabilitation and Creating Jobs in the Latrobe Valley
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Missed opportunities on Direct Action
Last night the Abbott government announced that it had reached a deal with Clive Palmer to legislate its ‘direct action’ policy. So four months after the repeal of the carbon price, it looks like...
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Needles in the haystack
Looking for environmental policy on the websites of the major parties ahead of the Victorian election is like searching for a needle in a haystack. There are no sections on environment, nature...
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National parks and river banks – Inappropriate places for cows
Cattle grazing in national parks is headline grabbing stuff. Cows were removed from the Alpine National Park by the Bracks government, let back in by the Baillieu/Napthine government and are about to...
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Wetland Worries
Wetlands are amazing places. Combining land and water, they are home to an incredible array of plants and animals and are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth. More than that, recent research...
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The fossil budget
In just a few weeks, the Abbott Government will hand down its second federal budget. The first attempt didn’t go so well. With cuts hitting the poor rather than the rich, it was roundly dismissed as...
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What does El Nino mean for our rivers?
While Melbourne shivered through icy winter weather last week, the Bureau of Meteorology quietly raised the country’s El Nino status from ‘alert’ to ‘El Nino’. This means that southeast Australia can...
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It's time for an ambitious Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
In May 2014 when the previous Napthine government announced it would close the Victorian Energy Efficient Target (VEET) scheme, thousands of Victorians stood up to declare their support for this...
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Let’s capitalise on unity over riverbank fencing
Environmentalists and farmers are sometimes in opposing camps, but not when it comes to fencing off river banks.The Victorian Farmers Federation recently suggested the Victorian Government should make...
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Growing Convictions
Claire Dawson from Langwarrin Vineyard Church responds to the Pope's Encyclical.front page image: LocationAustraliaSee map: Google MapsIs this a Green Action blog?: NULL Summary: I respond to this...
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Reality checks and the Basin Plan
The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is really quite simple – it’s a $13billion investment in river health and sustainable water use. Yet it is subject to a constant barrage of criticism from user groups and...
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A new turn? What Prime Minister Turnbull could mean for our environment
Malcolm Turnbull on climate change in 2012: "Politicians and shock jocks, scientists and coal barons, all of them can argue for as long as they like, but they cannot change the physical reality."front...
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PM Turnbull, don’t turn back time on water
Prime Minister Turnbull, don’t turn back time on waterThe Murray-Darling Basin Plan was supposed to usher in a new era of responsible water management. But now one of Malcolm Turnbull’s first calls as...
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