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Friday on my mind 12.09.2019 This week the effects of climate change became all too real for many people living insouthern Queensland. Unprecedented fires continue to burn through prime agriculturalareas near Stanthorpe and Applethorpe...

Photo credit: CSIRO   The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most diverse and important ecosystems on the planet, and yet it is being suffocated by chemical and sediment run-off from the terrestrial environment. ...

The Daily Mercury 27.07.19 showed a front page headline decrying thepeaceful protest being organised against businesses that support the Adani mine.The Mackay Conservation Group makes no apology for legitimately opposingthis mine, because of the...

Humans are capable of amazing things. Our ingenuity is limitless. This month marks 50 years since humans first set foot on the moon. In 1969, only 8 years after President J F. Kennedy announced...

Many of us are keen to reduce our environmental impact and do our best but with limited access to public transport, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, coal and gas dominating energy production and suburban sprawl...

Environmental organisations such as Mackay Conservation Group have focused on preventing the Adani mine from being constructed for several years. We have built a movement of two million people around the country who support...

Tomorrow (June 8) is World Oceans Day, so it’s time to consider the big blue bits that cover 70 per cent of our Earth’s surface. We know that our oceans are being damaged by human...

Photo supplied by Jeff Tan For those who may have missed it Thursday 22 May was world turtle day, a special day to celebrate and raise awareness of these iconic creatures.   Here in Central Queensland...

Iceland is an interesting country. It has a population of 340,000 people, about the same as the population of Mackay and Townsville combined. Its land area is just more than the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday Region. The...

As Australians we pride ourselves on being egalitarian, the land of the fair go. Yet there’s nothing egalitarian about the treatment that Indigenous Australians receive. Apart from poorer health, incarceration, life expectancy and income...