The NSW Government is so determined to carry out its plans to exterminate our koalas that it has established a regime of logging under marshal law. When 80 NSW citizens gather in their forest to confront the criminal damage being done there they are greeted by a 5 police cars and a police rescue truck. when asked why the police on site can't answer.

This report from Sean O'Shannessy who was on site 

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This year is the 20th anniversary of the US/Australian invasion of Iraq. It is also the 10th anniversary of the confinement of Julian Assange. To commemorate these two important related events Lismore people gathered at the War Memorial to speak out against the suppression of free speech that is flourishing in the world today and to call for Assange to be released and anti public protest laws to be repealed.

Eddie Lloyd and Graeme Dunstan spoke eloquently and Environmental as Anything's roving reporter Param Berg was there to record their words and share them with the world.

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Tessa Campesi has been seeking answers on what is going on in our forests so she went to Bulga Plateau where one of the most effective community campaigns to end native forest logging in Australia is located.

She interviewed a wide range of community members and seasoned campaigners about why they are standing up to the might of the NSW government and the corporate logging industry.

Our Federal government has finally decided to take some moderately effective action to reign in fossil fool price gouging. Tim Buckley, Director of the Climate Energy Finance think tank ( https://climateenergyfinance.org/ ) tells us how this will really affect the coal and gas cartels and Aussie energy consumers.

President of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, Jo Dodds, has a unique perspective to offer on the experience of having her home engulfed in the climate emergency. Her response to that crisis has been outstanding. Far from being shattered by the experience she has been forged into an extraordinarily effective activist for climate justice.

NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says he is proud to have made the EPA into a "tough cop on the beat" with "teeth" but when they are called out to investigate dozens well documented breeches of the logging rules they behave like a paper tiger.

Ecologist Mark Graham says this is "existential stuff" and that the NSW LNP Government are "an outfit of koala killers"

A peaceful and lawful walk-on by about 40 local community members into illegal Forestry Corporation (FCNSW) old growth forest industrial logging operations was held on Wednesday 10th August 2022 to measure recently destroyed giant trees and to bear witness to the crimes currently being committed in Ellis State Forest by FCNSW and its contractors.

Local ecologist and private conservation reserve operator Mark Graham spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything on Sat 13/8/22 to describe what they found and what must happen next for our State Forests

Sue Higginson is our representative in the NSW Parliament Upper House. She spoke to Sean O'Shannessy about the recently released report from the Parliamentary Inquiry into NSW floods and the upcoming parliamentary debate on ending public native forest logging on Environmental as Anything on Saturday 13/8/22

Lismore City Councilor Adam Guise was rescued from his North Lismore home in February during the cataclysmic floods that engulfed the region surrounding it. He has been calling on the Local, State and Governments to act effectively to secure the homes of every flood affected resident. There is an alarming prospect that the homes of many of those people will just be left in harms way or worse bulldozed.

Adam spoke to Sean O'Shannessy on Environmental as Anything on Saturday 13/8/22 about the issues involved in building back better in the face of the climate emergency.

End Native Forest Logging Petitioner Takesa Frank has started something important with her parliamentary e-Petition. NSW Parliament will now debate the protection of our State Forests. Hear her tell Environmental as Anything what got her started and where to next.

She says "We saw the bushfires destroy 80 per cent of South Coast forests and less than a month later Forestry NSW came into these and started logging,"

"It was really devastating to see that firsthand and watch them destroy the forests we helped protect."

Ms Frank's petition on the parliamentary website asked the Legislative Assembly to:

• Develop a plan to transition the native forestry industry to 100 per cent sustainable plantations by 2024

Both major parties are yet to support the transition out of native forest logging.

"This is what the people want, and if you don't start acting on it that's when the voters are going to change [their vote]," Ms Frank said.

"We're so close to a state election that they're going to have to start listening to the people." Takesa reckons