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Fail: our report card on the government’s handling of Australia’s extinction crisis

Image: Shutterstock Australia is losing more biodiversity than any other developed nation. Already this year the charismatic and once abundant gang gang cockatoo has been added to...

5 major heatwaves in 30 years have turned the Great Barrier Reef into a bleached checkerboard

  Image: AP Just 2% of the Great Barrier Reef remains untouched by bleaching since 1998 and 80% of individual reefs have bleached severely once,...

There’s no end to the damage humans can wreak on the climate. This is how bad it’s likely to get

  Picture: Alexander Beltes/ EPA A major new report published last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contained grave warnings on where Earth’s climate...

This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know

  Picture: AP Photo/Noah Berger Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more...

Not declaring the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ only postpones the inevitable

  Picture: Shuttlestock After much anticipation, the World Heritage Committee on Friday decided against listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”. The decision ignored the recommendation of...

Australian government was ‘blindsided’ by UN recommendation to list Great Barrier Reef as in-danger. But it’s no great surprise

 Picture: Shuttlestock The Australian government on Tuesday expressed shock at a draft decision to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”. But the recommendation has been...

Seriously ugly: here’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century

 Picture: Shuttlestock This is a long read, it is an important read, so set aside time to take it all in. Imagine, for a moment, a...

‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing

 Picture: Shuttlestock In 1992, 1,700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans...

‘This situation brings me to despair’: two reef scientists share their climate grief

A researcher completing bleaching surveys in the southern Great Barrier Reef after a major bleaching event.  ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CORAL REEF STUDIES Few...

The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. There are a whopping 45 reasons why

A helicopter view of Bait Reef in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Justin Blank/AAP When the managers of the Great Barrier Reef recently...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.