Comments on: BioBanking - Another Christmas Holiday Surprise - Consultation closes 01.02.08 http://www.botanybay.info/2007/12/14/biobanking-another-christmas-holiday-surprise Protecting Environment = Protecting People Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.botanybay.info/2007/12/14/biobanking-another-christmas-holiday-surprise#comment-142 Tom McLoughlin Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:22:25 +0000 http://www.botanybay.info/2007/12/14/biobanking-another-christmas-holiday-surprise#comment-142 Biobanking has such a crap reputation. A SMH journo scoffed at it over the phone to me recently. But it indirectly got a good wrap by their Sydney Magazine for Dec 08 re 'most influential Sydney people' which was a joke analysis posturing by cliquey herald trusties at least in the enviro section. I posted on this with some quite sharp bruising rebuttals regarding professional reputations of several people involved not least govt bureaucrat pushing biobanking given it arises from a 1997 attempt at racist extinguishment of native title by NSW Farmers in the Brigalow Belt southern mallee woodlands area, when they were desperate to achieve 'bucket loads of extinguishment' after the Wik legal case building on Mabo legal case in regards to Western Division leases in NSW (some 2/3 of NSW area). Yep, the farmers cooked up a wedge of the Blacks using the dumb greens. But I was wise to it then in 1997 and put a spoke in the wheel: Here is the link of the racist history of biobanking - Systemic racism in NSW behind the 1997 origins of 'bio banking' aka 'tradeoff' land clearing? at http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1772974/systemic-racism-in-nsw-behind-the-1997-origins-of-bio-banking-aka-tradeoff-land-clearing/ with picture there of one Simon Smith, Deputy Director General of Environment. Actually he is a grey man bureaucratic fixer to greenwash developer green lights. In this respect a recent traverse is instructive from 1997-2008 culture of the ALP sellout to developers in 5 or so Big Press articles, and now Greens website: Democracy4Sale (NSW) at http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/id122.html Appropo 'the most influential' here is my sledge of the patriarchal and pretty sleasy posturing of trusty Keith Muir in the green sector within the TEC fold: Wednesday, 12 December 2007 Foolish Fairfax 100 most influential list? The Keith Muir case study at http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1771620/foolish-fairfax-100-most-influential-list-the-keith-muir-case-study/ (with comment of ex NCC CEO Sid Walker at the end there) and howler #2 here Thursday, 13 December 2007 Sydney Magazine 'most influential list' howler #2 at http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1771874/sydney-magazine-most-influential-list-howler-2/ Anyway what I really want is a nice pic of Botany Bay natural heritage so that's enough for now. Keep up the great work Linda. You are an intellectual amazon in my book. Biobanking has such a crap reputation. A SMH journo scoffed at it over the phone to me recently. But it indirectly got a good wrap by their Sydney Magazine for Dec 08 re ‘most influential Sydney people’ which was a joke analysis posturing by cliquey herald trusties at least in the enviro section.

I posted on this with some quite sharp bruising rebuttals regarding professional reputations of several people involved not least govt bureaucrat pushing biobanking given it arises from a 1997 attempt at racist extinguishment of native title by NSW Farmers in the Brigalow Belt southern mallee woodlands area, when they were desperate to achieve ‘bucket loads of extinguishment’ after the Wik legal case building on Mabo legal case in regards to Western Division leases in NSW (some 2/3 of NSW area). Yep, the farmers cooked up a wedge of the Blacks using the dumb greens. But I was wise to it then in 1997 and put a spoke in the wheel:

Here is the link of the racist history of biobanking -

Systemic racism in NSW behind the 1997
origins of ‘bio banking’ aka ‘tradeoff’ land clearing?

at http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1772974/systemic-racism-in-nsw-behind-the-1997-origins-of-bio-banking-aka-tradeoff-land-clearing/

with picture there of one Simon Smith, Deputy Director General of Environment. Actually he is a grey man bureaucratic fixer to greenwash developer green lights.

In this respect a recent traverse is instructive from 1997-2008 culture of the ALP sellout to developers in 5 or so Big Press articles, and now Greens website:

Democracy4Sale (NSW)

at

http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/id122.html

Appropo ‘the most influential’ here is my sledge of the patriarchal and pretty sleasy posturing of trusty Keith Muir in the green sector within the TEC fold:

Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Foolish Fairfax 100 most influential list? The Keith Muir case study

at

http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1771620/foolish-fairfax-100-most-influential-list-the-keith-muir-case-study/

(with comment of ex NCC CEO Sid Walker at the end there)

and howler #2 here

Thursday, 13 December 2007
Sydney Magazine ‘most influential list’ howler #2

at

http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1771874/sydney-magazine-most-influential-list-howler-2/

Anyway what I really want is a nice pic of Botany Bay natural heritage so that’s enough for now. Keep up the great work Linda. You are an intellectual amazon in my book.

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