*Department of Australia is an online satire project created by Leslie Nassar. Leslie was Fake Stephen Conroy and Fake Today Tonight; he created TweeVee TV, the Twitter moderation platform that powers the on-air tweets for ABC’s Q&A; he was a digital media officer for Victoria Police, an “emerging technology” nerd in Telstra’s chief technology office and most recently the director of Technology for Razorfish Australia.
The Sandpit: Department of Australia
*Department of Australia is an online satire project created by Leslie Nassar. Leslie was Fake Stephen Conroy and Fake Today Tonight; he created TweeVee TV, the Twitter moderation platform that powers the on-air tweets for ABC’s Q&A; he was a digital media officer for Victoria Police, an “emerging technology” nerd in Telstra’s chief technology office […]
article-article-body
An open cut coal mine is no where near as ugly as a wind farm…but only to those who see dollar signs in the coal.
I come from a land of slag heaps, black and susceptible to solifluction of acid rain and ” pea-souper fogs.
Where just breathing was the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
I worked with gravity stoked Babcock and Wilcox boilers to drive the factory with its superheated steam.
Nothing escapes coal dust it’s everywhere and pneumoconiosis is an affliction of many miners and where the Miners Black Cough does not get you the TB will.
This picture of a coal based economy – where I was brought up — but a visit to the Hunter/ Latrobe Valley is like revisiting childhood home.
Today with the mines closed, “How green is my Valley” is once again a reality and most of the natural beauty of Wales is restored but the scars remain.
It is again a major holiday destination.
Conversely this mine and Abbots Point will destroy one the natural wonders of the world — an irreplaceable asset to enrich the Indian owners while impoverishing the Australian landscape by an recidivist environmental vandal