Dear Mr Garrett
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Dear Mr Garrett, we need your help. The Qld Government has already strangled and choked the Burnett River, with a series of weirs and the Paradise Dam. Dead fish, dead turtles, and dozens of broken promises. Now they want to choke the life out of the Mary River. There are far better alternatives. Don’t let them Murray the Mary.
Poll Dancing Anna
Poll Dancing Cartoon from the Courier Mail website, for a few hours on Wednesday 3-12-08 until it mysteriously disappeared.
Conservationists launch court action over Qld dam fears
ABC’S Karen Berkman reports the lungfish has become the focus of Federal Court action that could stop the Traveston dam in Qld’s south-east.
Dear Mr Garrett
Plea for help to save the Mary River from destruction by the Qld Government. Based on lyrics from Midnight Oil live performance at Paradise Theatre in 1992. “The backbone of this country’s broken. The land is cracked, the land is dry. They build another dam, In another part of town. The water’s gonna go. The dust it will come down. And the place, she won’t be right.”
The Chaser - U.S Bases Midnight Oil parody
This is a parody of U.S Forces by midnight Oil, whose ex-front man Peter Garrett (The guy with a shaved head) is now a member of the Australian Labor Party whose left-wing policies are now becoming more right wing..more like the Liberals who are currently in power.
Save the Mary River Rally Sept 6
500 people rallied at the site of the proposed Traveston Dam to voice opposition to a dam that will wipe out endangered species, submerge prime agricultural land, and is a non-sustainable, non-solution to the water crisis
Save the Mary River
A short 2 min video (suitable for sending to email contacts) trying to highlight the importance of Peter Garrett’s upcoming decision regarding the EPBC assessment of the proposal to dam the Mary River at Traveston Crossing.
David Attenborough on Queensland Lungfish
A short excerpt from the excellent BBC series “Life in Cold Blood” about why the Queensland Lungfish is so significant in terms of the Earth’s evolutionary history.
Peter Garrett - Watershed Video
Here is a short 2 min video (suitable for sending to email contacts) trying to highlight the importance of Peter Garrett’s upcoming decision regarding the EPBC assessment of the proposal to dam the Mary River at Traveston Crossing. Please help with distributing this link widely.
The Mary River Project
Confronting the worst drought on record, Australia’s fastest growing region is running out of water. On the cusp of a state election, 27th April, 2006, Premier Beattie is desperate to solve a looming ‘apocalyptic’ water shortage. He flies by helicopter into the Mary River Valley north of Brisbane to announce the construction of a dam the size of Sydney harbour. It is a shock, ironclad decision that sends waves through unconsulted government departments, councils and local communities. A fight breaks out.
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill …All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy,then, is humanity itself.” - Club of RomeThe First Global Revolution (1991), page 104 an elite international think-tank, consultants to the UN.