The Frenchman. Francis Barrallier life & journeys 1773-1853
Andy Macqueen (self published) 2024
RRP $40.00
A review by Roger Lembit
Andy Macqueen has written a new book about the life and travels of Francis Barrallier. Barrallier, who served as an Ensign and Aide-de-Camp in the early days of colonial Sydney penetrated deep into the southern Blue Mountains over ten years before the crossing by Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
written by Claire Saxby & illustrated by Alicia Rogerson
Reviewed by Amelia (age 9)
Secrets of the Saltmarsh looks like a fiction book because of its beautiful illustrations and the writing structure, but it is filled with tonnes of bustling facts about the saltmarsh environment!
https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/18c8eb11df25ede6b997dd92
Bruce Donald AM, senior environmental lawyer
Over the last five years I have worked with Ted Woodley, Gary Dunnett and the NPA Executive in a voluntary capacity providing legal advice on the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro battery project. Members are well aware that from the outset the project was considered to be entirely misconceived economically, in its electrical engineering and transmission and involving serious environmental impact on Kosciuszko National Park.
Read More “NPA v. Minister for Environment [2023] NSWLEC 149”
James Sherwood, Conservation Campaigner, National Parks Association of NSW
Reports of 28-degree water temperature inside Pittwater Heads over autumn has made diving off Sydney coast more appealing than ever before. The sad reality, however, is the ecological cost of this year’s marine heatwave may cause irreversible changes to our marine environment along the NSW coast.
This article first appeared in Mid North Coast July 2023 newsletter. Reprinted with permission.
Walk leaders: Sue Goodison & Roxanne Dunn
Number of walkers: 19 (Direct Ascent); 6 (Longer Ascent)
Reports: Sue Goodison & Roxanne Dunn
It was the last working day before Christmas 2023, and I got the call that the Land and Environment Court was ready to hand down its judgement on NPA’s appeal against the Snowy 2.0 amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Plan of Management. Four-thirty pm, moments before the court closed for the year, the Chief Justice announced that he was dismissing NPA’s case. The Minister’s decision to remove the prohibition on the construction of new transmission lines through Kosciuszko, just for Snowy 2.0, was upheld.
Read More “Our case against the Snowy 2.0 transmission lines through Kosciuszko National Park.”
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