Northern Australia Media Releases
- WA Premier Barnett disregards process and environment in pre-empting LNG decision - October 15, 2008
- Garrett's strong stand on Tiwi logging - October 15, 2008
- Push for World Heritage protection for Cape York - October 08, 2008
- New Northern Australia Taskforce urged to reject extreme development plans - September 26, 2008
- Bligh on the environment: broad targets welcome, but details and action required - September 08, 2008
- Barnett's Kimberley industry plans threaten Humpback whale Sanctuary - August 12, 2008
- Ditching Kimberley canal welcomed but protection for the Fitzroy River crucial - August 09, 2008
- Northern Territory election: environment groups issue policy report card - August 08, 2008
- Green groups welcome NT Government scrutiny of Tiwi Island’s landclearing - August 07, 2008
- TV ad blitz calls for political action on land clearing in NT - August 01, 2008
Yesterday’s announcement of a preferred site for an LNG processing hub in the Kimberley shows a fundamental disregard for due process, Indigenous rights and the environment from new WA Premier Colin Barnett.
The Wilderness Society welcomes the decision by Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, to impose tough new conditions on logging giant, Great Southern Plantations, for a range of serious breaches of environmental conditions related to it's controversial clearing of 26 000 hectares of forests and woodlands on the Tiwi islands, north of Darwin.
A leading Australian environment group, The Wilderness Society, will seek the support of the World Conservation Congress in Spain this week for a World Heritage nomination for Cape York. A resolution will be voted on later this week at the Congress in Barcelona urging the Federal and Queensland Governments to continue to work with Traditional Owners to develop a nomination and seek their final consent for a World Heritage listing.
The Wilderness Society calls on the new Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce, launched today in Broome by the Commonwealth Government, to reject outright foolhardy schemes to move agriculture and irrigation into northern Australia.
The Wilderness Society Queensland welcomes the climate change and environment targets announced by Premier Anna Bligh but has called for more detail about how these targets will be met.
The Wilderness Society WA has expressed grave concern that recent statements by Opposition leader Colin Barnett promoting the industrialisation of the Kimberley could lead to the demise of the region’s newly discovered Humpback whale sanctuary.
The Wilderness Society welcomes the announcement by WA Opposition leader Colin Barnett that a future Coalition government would not build a water canal from the Kimberley to Perth.
A coalition of environment groups this morning issued a report card assessing the environmental policies of the political parties on the eve of the Northern Territory election. The report card is published in this morning’s NT News.
The Wilderness Society and the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory welcome today’s announcement by the Northern Territory Chief Minister that any further land clearing on the Tiwi Islands will be subject to a full and public environmental assessment process.
The Wilderness Society launches a TV ad campaign challenging the next Northern Territory government to rule out further destructive land clearing in special parts of the Territory including the Tiwi’s and the Daly River.
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