By Amy Blain The last day of 2019 started in pitch-blackness. It was 7 am on a mid-summer morning and the sky was jet black. Fires had travelled fast overnight, leaping 120km and had reached us at our holiday retreat, a gorgeous homestay in beautiful Bermagui. The fires were close enough that ash was falling […]

By Cat Holloway, Callala Matters The fight to save Callala's precious forest, gliders and birds intensified this week with two dramatic developments. Callala Matters discovered that Shoalhaven City Council staff buried a crucial in-house environmental analysis opposing a contentious subdivision in Callala Bay. Our Government Information Public Access (GIPA) application for Council’s internal communication revealed […]

By Takesa Frank What do you do when your forest home is under attack from the forestry industry? You take strong action as Takesa Frank did very recently. Even more distressing is the knowledge that these magnificent native forests are being destroyed for low value wood chips, firewood and pallets. This is Takesa’s story.   […]

By Richard Bates Zombie developments infest the entire east coast of NSW, there’s at least 20 of them. The epicentre, however, is the Shoalhaven with no less than five environmentally destructive zombie coastal developments underway that we know of. By now we all know about the 'zombie' development approvals from years back that raise their […]

By Bradley Stanton It’s commonly stated that gambling in Australia is the equivalent of guns in America. The gambling Industry has captured politics in the way the National Rifle Association has in America. Let’s be frank - the gambling industry doesn’t care about you. Its sole purpose is to cause harm and misery to the […]