It's great to see that a mainstream TV program actually bought into the environmental damage the oil spill in the Timor Sea is causing.
Yes, the oil is still leaking into the ocean, and according to a WWF representative interviewed this evening on Channel Tens, "7PM Project", (a panel show which often takes a light-hearted look at today's news), it is causing untold damage to thousands of marine animals that inhabit this part of the ocean.
The irony that it is simply the location of the spill that prevents it from being front page news every day was not lost on the panel. The uproar had the spill happened on the Barrier Reef or the Kimberley coast cannot be underestimated.
One wonders if it will only be a similar disaster occurring on our shores that will actually cause our Government to take action to create laws to fully protect the environment.
Money from oil and other such mining products will not buy back extinct species.
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