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  1. Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
    "One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

    "The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
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    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

    Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
    commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

  2. Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
    "One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

    "The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

    Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
    commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

  3. The nature reform bill: “riddled with loopholes that would enable rampant deforestation and species extinctions to continue at pace”.

    "Ken Henry warns Labor’s nature laws ‘are worthless’ unless minister tightens ‘national interest’ exemptions. Every project developer is absolutely convinced that their project is in the national interest... Henry said the vague drafting of the “national interest” exemption and the failure to close loopholes for native forest logging and land clearing were problems that needed to be fixed."
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    theguardian.com/australia-news

    Labor’s environmental law overhaul: a little progress and a lot of compromise
    theconversation.com/labors-env
    #EPBCAct #exemptions #NationalInterest #deforestation #LandClearing #FastTrackApprovals #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #climate

  4. The nature reform bill: “riddled with loopholes that would enable rampant deforestation and species extinctions to continue at pace”.

    "Ken Henry warns Labor’s nature laws ‘are worthless’ unless minister tightens ‘national interest’ exemptions. Every project developer is absolutely convinced that their project is in the national interest... Henry said the vague drafting of the “national interest” exemption and the failure to close loopholes for native forest logging and land clearing were problems that needed to be fixed."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    Labor’s environmental law overhaul: a little progress and a lot of compromise
    theconversation.com/labors-env
    #EPBCAct #exemptions #NationalInterest #deforestation #LandClearing #FastTrackApprovals #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #climate

  5. How an “absolutist position” seeks to block even minor copyright exemptions, and usually succeeds

    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in the US in 1998, at an early stage of the shift to a digital world, with little concern for the serious harm it would cause as everything became suffused with software. The problem is that the DMCA prevents circumvention of copyright protection measures (generally known as “digital rights management”, or DRM), even if the purpose of […]

    #absolutistPosition #circumvention #dmca #DRM #esa #exemptions #iceCream #ifixit #mcdonalds #publicKnowledge #rightToRepair #section1201 #usCopyrightOffice #videoGames

    walledculture.org/how-an-absol

  6. In conclusion, the interaction between the #1stAmendment and #14thAmendments, along with the changes instigated by the #RFRA, forms a multifaceted legal landscape requiring meticulous #JudicialScrutiny. The #principles of #religiousfreedom and #equalprotection unequivocally #reject the #granting of #exemptions from #antidiscrimination #laws, preserving the #integrity and #coherence of the #Constitution. (7/8)

  7. In conclusion, the interaction between the #1stAmendment and #14thAmendments, along with the changes instigated by the #RFRA, forms a multifaceted legal landscape requiring meticulous #JudicialScrutiny. The #principles of #religiousfreedom and #equalprotection unequivocally #reject the #granting of #exemptions from #antidiscrimination #laws, preserving the #integrity and #coherence of the #Constitution. (7/8)