Marine Parks in Australia – Minister to make decision
Australia’s Environment Minister Tony Burke is expected to announce the boundaries of protected commonwealth waters in June. Some coalition MPs and commercial fishermen fear jobs will be lost. But author Tim Winton says linking marine parks is broadly popular. Hear him interviewed here (4min) thanks to ABC radio.
“Well I guess we’re at an interesting and pretty exciting moment in our national history. Back when Australia was poorer, less educated, less confident of its place in the world people reserved land for national parks – ecosystems, land forms, forests. And as a result of that – that kind of enlightened impulse – we now enjoy, on the fringes of our cities, in some instances in hearts of the cities themselves, right out into the interior, wild places, places of respite.
Right now we’re right on the cusp of being able to do the same thing in the sea to bring about a system of marine parks right around Australia to basically preserve a good chunk of our ocean assets for the future.”
- Tim Winton, scribbler and environmentalist, redneck, fisherman, surfer, grandfather…
Arrr, but what you think and hoped is secure, is maybe not so.
thats a pretty lame reply, but ha it’s Tim, and I find I am followin him like some last hope. I shit you not.
hard to resist wanting to be saved (even by a good bloke like Tim)
or fight
or follow blindly some greenish alternative that means we still have all we have today
or shutdown, go numb, alternate between pissed and pissed off
when there is no-one in power who seems to care
that the more-than-human world is slowly throttled
and we think we are at the centre
we are wrong
nevermoreso
The difrence of being pissed and pissed off is great. I can be pissed and get on the internet (Kurungabba) and voice my opinion. Or I can be pissed off and wanna be a soldier and fight the Assad Militamen. But really I am really in a quandray.
bloody scribber
shane is latin for spam .. no ?
yes
.. but spam cannot respond intelligently, shane
no
My test is now how to make you, Shane, say maybe
I really am a wanderin drunk, lookin for what I don’t know,