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Commonsense fairness and humanity is needed
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March 16, 2021 12.01am
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GENDER EQUALITY
Commonsense fairness and humanity is needed
I’m a bloke and was on school-pickup duty yesterday – I wish I could have marched, such a great thing to see happening. My mum taught me and my brother as boys in the 1980s and ’90s to respect girls and women – especially her and our sister. So I am fortunate to have lived and breathed her feminism (which today just looks like commonsense fairness and humanity, funny that) and – unlike many men more powerful than me – to find today’s changes afoot plainly needed and no great challenge to my values or self-concept. Thanks mum.
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Post-fire logging removes tree hollows vital for wildlife recovery
An expert review on logging after bushfires found it removes tree hollows which are vital in the recovery of more than 225 native species.
The review of scientific studies on post-fire logging by The Bushfire Recovery Project, a joint initiative of Griffith University and the Australian National University, reported 114 species of birds, 18 mammals, 79 reptiles and 27 amphibians which use tree hollows as homes, are threatened by post-fire logging.
Professor Brendan Mackey, Director of the Griffith Climate Action Beacon and Griffith Climate Change Response Program
The key findings of the report on post-fire logging in Australia were: