What's left now for Underwood bushland ? "Federal referral" with the slim chance of a reprieve? Lets face it, not great odds in the context of recent environmental reviews. Then there's direct action. But we are going to need a grass roots campaign and activism that would put the French farmers to shame.
What does it take to get people out on the streets, protesting instead of watching, particularly here in WA.
Yet the recent incongruous gathering of wealthy miners and their paid entourage shamelessly flaunting their pearls and their self interest were out for all to see, while the really disenfranchised and disadvantaged barely raise a finger or rate a mention.
It seems to be all about entitlement, the feeling of being owed a due. Where is our society, when the rich can jump up and down and get sympathy and the lowest paid are summarily dismissed as threatening our precious economy when even a small wage increase is proposed ?
Well, to quote Tony Abbott, "it's crap".
Openly campaigning at the "Diggers and Dealers" minefest this week, the minemeisters are openly spruiking the Liberal party and they are not pulling any punches. Surely this will raise more than an historians eyebrow or two in years to come, as they ponder the derailment of social justice in the land of the fair go.
Meanwhile the plight of our local native species, an iconic island of biodiversity, an integral link in the chain of remnant vegetation that reminds us of the heritage that was the Swan coastal plain, is waiting for the bulldozer and the chainsaw. ( Courtesy of our finest academic institution )
Where are those entitled millionaires when you need them?
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