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 The baby Penguins of Bicheno are dying of starvation and federal Environment Minister Tania Plibersek remains silent about the crisis. Plibersek has failed to mobilize veterinay nurses to provide emergency feeding. Photo from Reddit The helpless chicks urgently need mashed fish to survive. Normally parents of the  world’s tiniest penguins wade ashore on eastern Tasmania’s mid-summer nights to feed their young, hidden within the dunes. But a month ago, the London Times reported, adults of the Little Penguin species, which count Australia’s southern island state as their stronghold, suddenly ended their nightly visits, leaving their infants to starve. "The cause of the abandonment of their young is unclear but scientists believe a rapid warming of waters surrounding eastern Tasmania in recent years has robbed adult penguins of the small fish that they feed on." That this story of shame has become international only increases the reputational damage being done to the Anthony Al...

Big, brave Anthony Albanese. Toe the party line and keep silent during the parliamentary debate. Wait until the legislation is passed and then pretend you are against it. What a weakie. What a pathetic attempt on Sky Television this morning to suggest Labor has gone too far in supporting the Abbott government’s national security agenda, particularly the new “draconian” restrictions on press freedom which would see journalists jailed for between five and 10 years. I am judging him for what he is. A politician terrified that the Greens, a party with true left-wing sentiments, will win his seat at the next election.