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Grant Howard lives in Queensland and is a coal miner currently working in the Bowen Basin At 17, fresh out of school, I landed my first job as a coal miner and have been...

Mackay Conservation Group recently sponsored a community bushfire forum in Kuttabul so that locals could find out more about the future likelihood of fires and how to prepare. The Australia Institute’s principal adviser, Mark Ogge,...

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...