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    Green Letter Days

    Dec 20, 2021 3 minutes
    [Bob Brown]

    The 25th November, 2021 was a green letter day for Australia.

    Firstly, the Minister for the Environment, Sussan Ley, announced her government had dumped its proposed concrete airport in Antarctica. The concrete runway—existing Antarctic runways are on ice—would have impacted seals, penguins and other seabirds in the neighbourhood and, in one fell blow, increased the human footprint on the wilderness continent by 40%. Australia’s new Antarctic ship, the RSV Nuyina, would have been

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