Lesley Dewar's Blog Posts Tagged 'oil' (3)

Dear Minister Ferguson

The electorate has always been able to communicate directly with the Prime Minister, through his or her office email address, at Parliament House until now.

Almost all Federal Members of Parliament have a direct email box @aph.gov.au – and it is extraordinary that the Prime Minister should choose to have her  usual @aph.gov.au email address closed, when matters of great future importance are being considered.

Make no…

China-Pipeline-Rupture.pdf

In late 2010, an oil pipe line exploded in China. The pictures in the attached file are believed to be from that site. They are presented in good faith.

This…

My family used to live in Big Bell, a gold mining town in the middle of Western Australia. In the summer, my father played Country Week Cricket and one year we went with some other families to Busselton on the coast. We stayed at the caravan park and we all went fishing, crabbing and played on the beach. The water was crystal clear; you could see the crabs twenty feet below your boat and the beach was covered with thousands of iridescent sea…