... animals is the risk of weed or disease. Weeds infestations have already proved impossible to eradicate and the potential for disease causing pathogens could very quickly devastate Barrow Island. The inevitable series of cumulative impacts of further developments will substantially diminish Barrow Islands conservation values. Another negative externality is the "foot print issue". This includes ... issue. Environmentalists insist that massive expansion into such a fragile and largely undisturbed ecosystem is environmentally unjustifiable. The release of feral predators or weed species on...

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... as the Pacific Nightmare and the newly elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Michael Somare, has declared his Government's opposition to the continuation of the camp on Manus Island. The Pacific Solution has cost Australia dearly, not only in the millions of dollars used to bribe these impoverished states to take those Australia does not want but, far more ... ...

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