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by sheilan
Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:29 am
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: Call to Stand
Replies: 23
Views: 25139

Re: Canberra rally

Since Napoleon, the French civil code has contained rights to property and related right to compensation if the State should have a legal reason to interfere with it. Australia would be much better off with the Napoleonic civil code and its land-use planning and inheritance provisions than with what...
by sheilan
Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:01 pm
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: AVATAR
Replies: 6
Views: 8060

Re: AVATAR

If you liked the movie, please have a look at my review here and comment: http://candobetter.org/node/1762 I liked it too. I thought it was politically significant. I know this is way off the track but AVATAR is the best movie. Go and see it. If you like forests, plants, trees and living sustainably...
by sheilan
Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:59 pm
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: Call to Stand
Replies: 23
Views: 25139

Peter Spencer has been presented in the media as if he is wanting to clear his land, as in as in "Peter Spencer has had most of his land (Shannons Flats in NSW, near Canberra) locked up by native vegetation laws." This won't get him sympathy from the wider public. There is nothing in there about wid...
by sheilan
Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:45 pm
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Logging Brown Mt risks massive drying - protest tomorrow
Replies: 1
Views: 5753

Logging Brown Mt risks massive drying - protest tomorrow

News is just in is that a decision to log the huge forests of Brown Mountain will be made in a week or so and the loggers will go in immediately afterwards! Brumby is not planning to protect it! Be there Tomorrow at 10.30am on the steps of Parliament House Victoria. We want everyone who can come alo...
by sheilan
Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:52 am
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Need for Peoples' Commission into bushfires & climate
Replies: 7
Views: 11388

names of climate change refugees

Colin, I sense some sarcasm in this post and a recent one about yaorts in Frankston. It is really not necessary. Please tell me what the problem is in a straightforward way. Is it to do with the concept of climate change or causes of climate change? Is it to do with forestry? Or something else. With...
by sheilan
Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:36 pm
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Need for Peoples' Commission into bushfires & climate
Replies: 7
Views: 11388

Request permission to reproduce your comment

Duane,
Could I reproduce your comment on candobetter.org in the discussion there please?
by sheilan
Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:27 am
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Need for Peoples' Commission into bushfires & climate
Replies: 7
Views: 11388

Need for Peoples' Commission into bushfires & climate

Need for a Peoples' Commission into Bushfires using Climate change activism I am Posting this to NSF and other places in hope of raising some interest. This post draws attention to the fact that the Climate Change movement has marshalled a lot of people who are potential activists but they seem to ...
by sheilan
Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:51 am
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Pressures to overproduce
Replies: 9
Views: 13583

Slavery

Thanks Shirley. Yes, it's frightening.
And people have known about this kind of slavery since time immemorial.
Did you know that relocalisation is really what 'anarchism' is about?
All these movements to take back power get demonised, one after another.

regards,

Sheila Newman
by sheilan
Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:09 pm
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Pressures to overproduce
Replies: 9
Views: 13583

Pressures to overproduce

On a site I edit at http://candobetter.org/node/1346#comment-3135"> we are engaged in a discussion about overproduction</a>, among other things. Natural Sequence Farming has been alluded to. If you feel strongly about the subject of pressures to overproduce (which negatively affect soil and hydrolog...
by sheilan
Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:04 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: NSF in central Australian rangelands?
Replies: 0
Views: 4521

NSF in central Australian rangelands?

What is Peter Andrews' take on flat, degraded arid rangelands in places like Charleville and Longreach in Queensland? I was talking to someone in the area who was saying how in principle NSF would work, but he seemed to be implying that the problems of slow-flowing irregular rivers, aridity, irregul...
by sheilan
Wed May 06, 2009 10:37 pm
Forum: Questions about the NEW book 'Beyond the Brink'.
Topic: An extract from Beyond the Brink
Replies: 3
Views: 8803

Firestick farming and Back from the Brink

I just read the extract posted on Allens books on line from Peter Andrew's second book. I have not read the second book - I am having trouble finding a copy. However I am responding to P. Andrew's comments about the flack he got about his interpretation of the role of aboriginal firestick farming. I...
by sheilan
Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:18 am
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: BIODIVERSITY: The key to a healthy ecosystem
Replies: 5
Views: 7375

Big agribusiness and water - crucial enquiry April 14 - batt

Please pass on. Our current farmers, especially irrigators, may have bad practices, but big agribusiness gives me the chills and the government/corporate support for the new pipeline is particularly scary. The Victorian government has been aggressively pushing, on behalf of big-agribusiness and corp...
by sheilan
Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:35 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: Deforestation drys continents - new theory explains how
Replies: 5
Views: 8074

Deforestation drys continents - new theory explains how

Whilst many people have been aware (but have mostly been ignored) that vegetation, especially forests, create rain, and whilst desertification has been linked to deforestation historically many times, there is a new and robust theory to explain how this may happen. See also How logging causes forest...
by sheilan
Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:20 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: Bushfires in Victoria: Natural sequence hydrology approach
Replies: 40
Views: 43561

Colin, please expand on your Dandenong Ranges observation

Could you expand on this a little? Colin wrote, "A point to take note of regarding hydrating the landscape; if you are down in Melbourne and go to the Dandenong Ranges National Park, their is a walk straight up the hill from the entrance around a gully. One side of the gully is cool temperate rainfo...
by sheilan
Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:18 am
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: Bushfires in Victoria: Natural sequence hydrology approach
Replies: 40
Views: 43561

Write a statement for candobetter

Novaris, James Sinnamon, the owner of candobetter.org , often documents where comments or letters to the editor were knocked back or where the press failed to cover some candidates for elections. We have had some very interesting articles based on this. It is a way of exposing the bias of the press,...