Wild

Bob Brown’s green living

More than a century ago British cleric, nature-lover and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote ‘What would the world be, once bereft of wet and of wildness? Let them be left …’

To his ‘wet and the wildness’ I would add ‘and wildlife’. Yet ninety percent of Australians vote for parties with wildlife-killing policies, such as coal mining, logging of native forests and more dogs and

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