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by Kenneth Davidson in the Melbourne Age of 5 May 08

by Kenneth Davidson in the Melbourne Age of 31 Mar 08
Could a 30-kilometre tunnel from the Upper Yarra Reservoir to Big River, which flows eventually to the Murray River and costing $300 million save the dying Murray River system?

, SMH 16 Apr 08

" id="PollutionInChina">Pollution in China

The prosperity that some Australians and Chinese are now enjoying as a result of the boom in the export of our finite non-renewable mineral wealth is being paid for now, by life-threatening pollution. The links below were obtained using the google search terms 'China' and 'pollution'

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, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar 06

, International Herald Tribune, 26 Aug 07

, National Geographic News, 9 Jul 07

by Pete Murphy from the United States, author of

by Steven Lunn of the Australian, 21 Apr 08. Also , and

CONSTRUCTING city buildings to be obsolete after 30 years is a scandalous building industry practice - and one of the most extreme examples of energy inefficiency in modern society, according to international futurist Patrick Dixon. 

Naomi Klein warns that will attempt to use financial crisis to steal more publicly owned wealth.and dismantle remains of the US Social Welfare System. Read article in . Originally published in the Los Angeles Times on 27 January 2008

in the Archdruid Report of 26 Mar 08
How the rise in the cost of oil can have unanticipted flow-on effects, causing other forms of energy, bot non-reneable and 'renewable' to be more expensive thatn anticipated.

Bayside Bulletin 15 Nov 07

Queensland State Sustainability Minister Andrew MacNamara has criticised the Redland Shire Council for threatenting the Koala with local exitinction as a result of its promotion of population growth and housing development. Earlier this year as other local government s were resisting The Queensland Government's demands for enforced population growth, Redland Shire actually offered to exceed the population growth targets that the Queensland had intended to demand of it. As a consequence even a minister of the to pro-grwoth Queensland Government recognises the threat that this poses to the local wildlife of Redland Shire.
 

The Age 14 Nov 07
TWO new reports that paint a dire picture of the Murray River say 70 per cent of red gum forest on Australia's greatest waterway is in poor health and declining. 

Sydney Morning Herald 15 Nov 2007
Fifteen Greenpeace activists occupied a coal-fired power plant on New South Wales' Central Coast this morning, protesting against the climate change policies of both major parties.

The Australian 1 Nov 07
THE Australian National Audit Office has launched a scathing indictment of the navy's $2.1 billion frigate upgrade.
The upgrade is four and a half years overdue and projected to run tens of millions of dollars over budget.

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