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The Guardian view on the bushfires: Australia needs a government with the right priorities. The sheer scale of the bushfires sweeping through south-east Australia, turning the sky first black, then a terrifying apocalyptic red, defies the imagination.
About 5.5m hectares of land has been burned; an area larger than Denmark and the Netherlands put together. This bushfire season began in the Australian spring and the blazes spread far and wide. The vast volume of dust and ash generated has turned the glaciers and snow-capped mountains of New Zealand’s South Island brown. The signs of new and dangerous times are unmistakable. With another wave of unbearable heat expected this weekend, the biggest-ever population exodus is under way from New South Wales, where residents have been told their homes will be “undefendable” in the days to come. This is a national catastrophe.
That rising temperatures, linked to greenhouse gas emissions, have turned swathes of Australian territory into a vulnerable tinderbox is incontestable. That is a counsel of despair. Australia fires: Navy rescues people from fire-hit Mallacoota. Image copyright Fran Lawson The Australian navy has evacuated around 1,000 tourists and residents who were trapped in the fire-ravaged town of Mallacoota on the Victoria coast.
Throughout Friday, landing vessels took people to two ships - MV Sycamore and the much larger HMAS Choules. A local MP, Darren Chester, called it an "unprecedented mass relocation of civilians". Some 4,000 residents and tourists fled to the beach on Monday night, when racing bushfires encircled the town. The evacuees will be taken to Western Port, the navy said - around 16 hours' voyage down the coast. With roads cut off, the military evacuated around 60 people by helicopter on Thursday. The evacuation was voluntary. The larger ship, HMAS Choules, has a "few hundred beds". Ballarat Street Talks – Ballarat Street Talks. Esperanceexpress.com. News, latest-news, The mining industry in Victoria is continuing to push against the state government's proposed royalty on gold mining.
The rate will be set at 2.75 per cent of the net market value of gold production - Victoria is the only state without a gold mining royalty, however it will kick in on January 1 2020. It's expected to raise $27.8 million each year. The Minerals Council of Australia submitted four recommendations to the state government, hoping to reduce the tax's effect on smaller mines, including the Ballarat Gold Mine.
READ MORE: Exploring Castlemaine Goldfields' Ballarat mine However, it says it has been ignored. The mining industry in Victoria is continuing to push against the state government's proposed royalty on gold mining. The rate will be set at 2.75 per cent of the net market value of gold production - Victoria is the only state without a gold mining royalty, however it will kick in on January 1 2020. It's expected to raise $27.8 million each year. Council aiming to fight obesity and food insecurity in Ballarat.
Ballarat hopes for golden future as doubtful debtor's D-day arrives. But Ballarat's fortunes could turn on Monday, when LionGold shareholders vote on whether to allow China's Yaoo Capital to acquire more than 70 per cent of the company.
While Yaoo has little pedigree in mining, it appears to be keen to invest in the sort of exploration that many in Ballarat hope could unlock gold discoveries at the mine to rival the extraordinary discoveries made at Victoria's Fosterville mine in the past four years. In filings to Singaporean regulators in over the past year, LionGold said Yaoo Capital was ''of the view that there is untapped and discoverable potential in the group’s core gold mining project in Ballarat''. In an apparent reference to a better funded future under Yaoo's leadership, LionGold told Singaporean regulators last week it was keen to increase spending on exploration drilling at Ballarat, increase mining rates and install new processing equipment. Yaoo has previously been linked to the gold assets of ASX-listed Terramin. This Ballarat property stylist has been voted Australia's finest.
News, latest-news, When Jo Powell was young, she could think of nothing she enjoyed more than reorganising her bedroom: shifting the furniture, putting her belongings in new places, changing her style.
She's now built a thriving business putting into practice those early self-taught lessons. Her 3 Pea's Property Styling takes the canvas of an existing home and adds the colour and taste Powell has developed both from her own passion and from five years of hard work. Powell is standing inside a property that, for all intent, could be a tastefully restored late 19th Century cottage in the city. In fact it's a new building, constructed to replace a cottage on the site which was beyond repair. When Jo Powell was young, she could think of nothing she enjoyed more than reorganising her bedroom: shifting the furniture, putting her belongings in new places, changing her style. She's now built a thriving business putting into practice those early self-taught lessons.