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Athol Davis
Athol Davis has been a woodcutter for 40 years in forests around Koondrook and Barham“I was born in Balranald up around the Murrumbidgee and moved to Koondrook when I was six or seven. Dad was with the...
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Keith Stockwell
Keith Stockwell is a retired school teacher who lives in Moama and is a BirdLife Australia representative and member of several community environment groups“A good wetland should be able to drain and...
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Peter Cummins
Peter Cummins owns and operates Waterwheel Wines in Bridgewater On Loddon“Our family grew tomatoes all around Bridgewater for 30, 40 years. So we purchased water from the Waterwheel business that was...
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Rob Asplin
Rob Asplin runs River Country Adventours. For 16 years he and wife Joan have been taking people on canoe and camping trips along the Goulburn and Murray Rivers.“I grew up at a place called Willaura in...
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Royce Dickson
Royce Dickson, a former school principal, helped form the Shepparton-Mooroopna Urban Landcare Group“I formed the urban group here, we’ve been going five years. I’d been on the river health and water...
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Tuesday Browell
Tuesday Browell lives in Richardson’s Lagoon wetland off the Murray River near Torrumbarry. The 100 acres of land has a conservation covenant on it“That out there is Richardson’s Lagoon and it’s now...
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Wally Cubbin
Wally Cubbin is president of the Goulburn Valley Association of Angling Clubs and regularly meets with water and catchment authorities“I didn’t do much fishing as a kid. About 1958 my future wife’s...
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Closing time
for Australia's dirtiest powerIn the next ten weeks the federal government will sign contracts and announce dates for the closure of up to 2000 MW of Australia’s most polluting power stations. The...
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State Budget 2012
State Budget 2012Environment Victoria made a detailed submission to the State Budget process via the One Million Homes alliance, which we convene. This Alliance is campaigning for the State Government...
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Connecting ecology and economy
Victorian government misses the pointReading the Victorian government’s submission on the draft Murray Darling Basin Plan, you would think that restoring river health was of no benefit to anyone and...
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Gillard's clash
with coal power tricksWith the clock ticking towards the federal government’s June 30 deadline for contracts for closure, the brinkmanship is beginning in earnest.In just eight weeks the government...
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Campaign Briefing: TIME’S UP for polluting coal in Victoria
TIME’S UP for polluting coal in VictoriaJune 30 is shaping up as a key date for Victoria’s energy future.Firstly it’s the deadline for a decision by the Federal Government about which coal-fired power...
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Victoria, Heatwaves & Climate Change
Victoria, Heatwaves & Climate ChangeWeather data and climate trends The two worst Victorian heatwaves on record have happened in the past 5 years: January/February 2009 and January 2014. 1In 2009,...
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It's going to cost money. Get used to it.Part of what we do here at Environment Victoria is meet with politicians, their advisors and government bureaucrats.It’s how we atone for our sins.Is this a...
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Victoria's environment - A state in reverseTuesday, 31 July 2012A new report into the Baillieu Government’s environmental record has found that the decisions taken by the government will have a...
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