Support for recent letter
A Better Eurobodalla (ABE) is a community forum dedicated to having open and inclusive government in our region. ABE expects that before governments, at any level, make decisions that will impact their communities, they will undertake broad and meaningful consultation, listen to and share expert advice, and proceed using a transparent decision-making process so that the community understands who makes decisions, when and why.
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ABE has applied these principles to the open letter "Shire jobs in Clean energy, EVs and carbon farming", (Letters, Bay Post/Moruya Examiner, December 31, 2020) sent to the Eurobodalla Mayor and all Councillors calling for action on climate change .
The letter outlines a number of well-considered actions to be undertaken by Council which would both enhance community resilience in the face of climate change, as well as provide long term economic and environmental benefits for the Eurobodalla region.
In particular, ABE supports the letter's recommendation for a climate action forum in Autumn 2021 where community groups can come together with council business and the community to develop and implement solutions that will address the likely impacts of climate change in our region.
ABE hopes that the Eurobodalla Mayor and councillors will give the open letter their full attention and looks forward to them supporting the suite of suggested actions, particularly the community consultation initiatives. This will be critical to long term success in tackling the major issue of climate change, which requires the broadest possible range of ideas and commitment from across the Eurobodalla community.
Brett Stevenson, ABE co-convenor
Moruya Heads
Why not Wattle Day?
To every Australian - be fair and seriously consider working towards a day to honour our country without shame or sorrow.
Long before a human footprint left its mark in the soil, wattle trees flourished and by the circle of the sun, awakened the bush with the light of their blooms.
Surely it would be most appropriate to proudly celebrate the first day of Spring not as Australia Day but Australia's Day, on Wattle Day.
Dawn Waterhouse
Mossy Point
'Give flake a break'
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) is encouraging seafood lovers to take the pledge to #GiveFlakeABreak and choose sustainable alternatives to flake when they visit their local chippy this summer.
In Australia there is no legal obligation to call shark meat, commonly known as 'flake', for what species it is or where it's from, and quirks in Australia's national environmental law permit the harvest of endangered sharks. There are also problems with the way some shark species are fished in Australia which result in the deaths of threatened species of turtles, dolphins, dugongs, seals and other protected shark species.
AMCS shark scientist Dr Leonardo Guida said there were plenty of delicious sustainable alternatives.
"Flake should only refer to shark meat from gummy and rig sharks which aren't endangered, yet endangered school shark, endangered scalloped hammerheads, and critically endangered whitefin swellshark can still end up on your plate as flake." said Dr Guida.
