Arding Community Member Awarded John Winter-Irving Bequest

by | 26 Feb 2018 | SLAM

Local Arding Landcare Group member, Chris Duncan, has been recognised as the 2017 recipient of the John-Winter Irving Bequest. Chris Duncan and her husband David are working with Northern Tablelands Local Land Services and the Arding Landcare Group to conserve and...

Add my name: Save UNE habitat trees

by | 13 Feb 2018 | Event, SLAM, UNE | 3 comments

This statement of concern was drafted by 30 members of the UNE community at a recent meeting to discuss habitat tree removal on the UNE campus. If you care about native wildlife and the beauty of the UNE campus, please add your name to this statement. This statement...

Taking stock of the war on our wildlife

by | 30 Jan 2018 | SLAM

Australia’s record of protecting our plants and animals at both a national and state level is poor, with another 134 species added to the threatened list in the past seven years. In NSW, the problems are likely to worsen, not least because of the inaptly named...

Video: Top 10 brands polluting our beaches

by | 6 Dec 2017 | SLAM

Every September, millions of people around the world participate in International Coastal Cleanup Day to take part in a larger effort to protect our ocean. Cleanups alone, however, will never solve the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean or on its shores. This...

November Forum: SLA Celebrates 10 Years

by | 2 Nov 2017 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM

Special Forum Thursday, 2nd November at 7pm  Kent House, opposite Central Park on Faulkner Street Where to now? Ten years ago a large group of Armidale people were concerned enough about our future to create SLA. Are you still interested in how we might locally...

The truth about gas

by | 19 Oct 2017 | SLAM

The Australia Institute has been hard at work debunking the gas lies and econobabble. Because the simple the truth is, we have enough cheap easy-to-extract gas in Australia to last 100 years. As Australia Institute advisor, Mark Ogge, wrote in Crikey...