Here we go round the mulberry bush, mulberry bush, mulberry bush!

When is a dedicated Nature Refuge in Queensland not a dedicated Nature Refuge? When it can be devastated by open cut coal mining. But only so long as a commensurable offset is put in place and dedicated as a Nature Refuge, which could then also be mined, if another offset is put in place and dedicated as a Nature Refuge. Which could also be mined, but only provided a commensurate offset is put in place and dedicated as a Nature Reserve! And so on, and so on. Er, are you following me? Check out the Queensland Governments Offset Policy See

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  1. From Bimblebox Nature Refuge caretaker’s desk

    If you fly over this country at the dry time of year, they stand out these National Parks and Nature Reserves like little green gems tossed on flattened brown paper. They sparkle with life, these miniscule nurseries. These are stark reminders of what Australia once was, these microcosms of the future, blueprints for the big repair job once the madness ceases and recovery begins.
    For science now confirms what nature has been shouting out all along – we can’t go on like this. That’s what is so demeaning and frustrating, to be bogged down in Offset Policy politics, trying to redirect this blind judgment, so cumbersome, top heavy and self-serving with all the entrenched vested interests.
    Of course, we cannot allow all this to be trashed for coal at this point in history.

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