Lachlan Barker

• Lachlan Barker is a freelance journalist and writer.

  He graduated from Sydney Uni with a science degree, with a double major in Zoology and Chemistry in 1987.

  Lachlan has worked for Greenpeace, Vancouver and Sydney; Australian Seabird Rescue, Ballina, NSW, in the environmental sphere; and the Sun-Herald, Sydney; the Grafton Daily Examiner, Grafton; and The Northern Star, Lismore, in the field of journalism.

  He currently lives in Byron Bay and works as a gardener when not writing.

  Lachlan is becoming more apolitical with every passing year, as being political means having to vote for one of two very bad options.

  His first book, about becoming an alcoholic, can be read (free) at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/396620

  Lachlan occasionally does paid research for the Lock the Gate Mine Rehabilitation team.

  Lachlan blogs at cyclonecharlie88.blogspot.com.au. You can also follow him on Twitter @CycloneCharlie8.

Articles written by Lachlan Barker (158)

• 24 January 2017 | Queensland LNG sector continues to drag Santos down
• 9 January 2017 | Australian test cricket ends summer on a high, though Channel 9 leaves sour taste
• 28 December 2016 | IA #4 top story of 2016: Queensland's collapsing LNG industry
• 8 December 2016 | Coal price rally puts Adani Power under catastrophic financial pressure
• 29 November 2016 | Australia finally pulls something from the wreck
• 11 November 2016 | Does Queensland need an LNG industry?
• 27 October 2016 | Re-Powering NSW 2016 Conference: As long as it is coal, gas and nuclear
• 17 October 2016 | Drayton South mine will exceed air quality limits and must be rejected
• 4 October 2016 | Grand final weekend: Roy & HG fans were the real winners
• 18 September 2016 | Despite Baird's continued denial, coal seam gas is finished in NSW
• 25 August 2016 | Coalition climate numbskulls back again flogging CCS at a cost of $209 billion
• 10 August 2016 | Time for a mining rehab tax
• 27 July 2016 | LNG takes another lurch toward financial oblivion
• 24 June 2016 | Queensland gives NSW the Origin Blues at Lang Park — again
• 13 June 2016 | Why agriculture – not gas or coal – is important for Australia
• 3 June 2016 | NSW continue Origin doldrums
• 26 May 2016 | ACCC gas report is nothing more than LNP propaganda
• 12 May 2016 | Origin planning to drill CSG wells through Linc explosive gas zone
• 29 April 2016 | Condamine fire: CSIRO called out over conflict of interest with GISERA
• 18 April 2016 | Peabody's grossly inadequate rehab bond
• 6 April 2016 | Santos pond liner fails putting Pilliga and Great Artesian Basin at risk
• 4 April 2016 | West Indies sweep T20 World Cups
• 23 March 2016 | New Zealand batter Australia in India
• 16 March 2016 | New Acland coal mine: The land that rehabilitation forgot
• 8 March 2016 | Matildas make it to Rio!
• 22 February 2016 | SPORT: The return of the Funnel-Web(b)
• 19 February 2016 | CSG Inquiry: 'Liars, cheats and thieves'
• 12 February 2016 | Mystery explained: Hunt's award handed out by the oil industry
• 8 February 2016 | The Superbowl ... and other adverts with a little bit of sport in the background
• 29 January 2016 | Queensland's collapsing LNG industry
• 27 January 2016 | SPORTS REPORT: Nice guys don't always finish last
• 17 January 2016 | Saving the Great Barrier Reef: One picture at a time
• 12 January 2016 | January sport: The good, the bad and the ugly
• 3 January 2016 | Adani’s finances go from bad to worse
• 23 December 2015 | Festive fun and games
• 8 December 2015 | Santos CSG flaring on the Pilliga makes a mockery of 'total' fire ban
• 7 December 2015 | Dubai win for the Wallaroos
• 30 November 2015 | NSW approves Mt Thorley-Warkworth coal mine extension using flawed data
• 23 November 2015 | Trailblazing Ashleigh Barty pioneers a new code hope
• 9 November 2015 | A day at the races as Australia thrashes the Kiwis
• 7 November 2015 | Qld CSG emissions damage bill to cost an eyewatering $23 billion a year
• 26 October 2015 | Mighty Wallabies bound into another Rugby World Cup final
• 22 October 2015 | Latest coal import figures deal further blows to Adani and Shenhua
• 12 October 2015 | Into the finals: Hawks, Cowboys and Wallabies
• 28 September 2015 | Goodbye Goodes as Day has his day
• 14 September 2015 | Matildas pay bad and so is booing Goodes
• 12 September 2015 | GVK Hancock's Galilee mine might have scored a legal win but can it score the funds?
• 31 August 2015 | Australia win the Ashes and Day rises again
• 28 August 2015 | The Darling Downs coal seam gas bomb
• 21 August 2015 | Do we want to stop governments flouting the law? Are you serious Senator Brandis?
• 17 August 2015 | A Diamond Day rises out of the Ashes of Australian sport
• 7 August 2015 | Federal Court rules Adani approval invalid
• 3 August 2015 | Returning the Goodes
• 29 July 2015 | Worse than ice: Push to kill off killer alcohol during TV sports broadcasts
• 21 July 2015 | Mick Fanning punches the shark as Australia crunches England
• 16 July 2015 | The battle against Shenhua ramps up: Koalas vs Coal incites civil disobedience
• 14 July 2015 | Wednesday woes: Qld crush NSW in Origin while Aussies stumble in Ashes
• 9 July 2015 | Greg Hunt approves disastrous Shenhua coal mine
• 6 July 2015 | Tour de Ashes
• 30 June 2015 | Matildas bow out of World Cup with Ashes back on the line
• 27 June 2015 | Financial disaster looms for Shenhua coal mine
• 22 June 2015 | Matildas have finest Day after waltzing past Brazil in World Cup
• 20 June 2015 | Time to end the 'gas is cleaner' crock
• 16 June 2015 | Good win for Matildas before Origin II
• 9 June 2015 | Matildas lose to USA, but signs good for tournament
• 5 June 2015 | CSG is destroying the iconic Darling Downs along with residents' health
• 2 June 2015 | The Goodes, the bad and the ugly
• 1 June 2015 | Who will pay the more than $17.8 billion mining rehabilitation bill?
• 26 May 2015 | The Battle of the North: State of Origin returns
• 18 May 2015 | Cycling, CSG and the Brick with Brains
• 13 May 2015 | Anglesea coal mine and power plant closed after community pressure
• 11 May 2015 | Cycling and the principled David Pocock
• 9 May 2015 | Metgasco win fails to simplify the future of CSG in NSW
• 4 May 2015 | Brisbane's Olympic-sized laugh
• 28 April 2015 | IA sport: Catch the Fever
• 20 April 2015 | The inspirational Charles Eugster
• 15 April 2015 | AGL's CSG blunders flare at Gloucester and expose EPA
• 13 April 2015 | Marvellous sporting Masters
• 9 April 2015 | Queensland: Bureaucrat string puller one day, CSG mining big shot the next!
• 7 April 2015 | Easter sport, the dope and the drug cheats
• 30 March 2015 | Lifestyle choices and the World Cup win
• 26 March 2015 | How to cut our GHG emissions by 9.37% - Independent Australia's plan
• 23 March 2015 | Pararoos are go as Australia's cricketers go through
• 16 March 2015 | Go the mighty Mugars!
• 13 March 2015 | Reef in peril as new Qld Government waves through Abbot Point expansion
• 9 March 2015 | Matildas suffer British soldiers' sexist abuse in Cyprus
• 6 March 2015 | NSW Premier Mike Baird plays the coal mining exaggeration game
• 3 March 2015 | Walk in her bowling spikes
• 27 February 2015 | One year on: Morwell residents look forward to a brighter future without coal
• 23 February 2015 | The young guns of world sport
• 20 February 2015 | Walkers to highlight triple threats to Sydney’s water
• 17 February 2015 | The World Cup and the Ladies Masters
• 11 February 2015 | The rise and fall of Tony Abbott: The man from yesterday
• 9 February 2015 | Scotland and the World Cup
• 5 February 2015 | Shenhua coal project may undermine Baird's electoral chances
• 3 February 2015 | Temperatures rising as hot Socceroos win the Asian Cup
• 30 January 2015 | Greg Hunt's $20 billion carbon tax fiction — and other lies
• 27 January 2015 | Aussie sport triumphant over Australian Day weekend
• 19 January 2015 | Smashing summer of sport
• 18 January 2015 | Here we Joh again! Big miners put out the trash for the Qld election
• 12 January 2015 | New year of sport erupts with drunken darts chaos
• 5 January 2015 | Abbot Point: Dumping on land at Caley Valley
• 23 December 2014 | Canberra and Australia win — but women’s sport and health fans lose
• 15 December 2014 | Australia beat India in a win for the ages — and for Phil
• 10 December 2014 | Time to cease the 'clean coal' crock
• 8 December 2014 | Abbott Government's cruel ABC cuts hurt women's soccer
• 5 December 2014 | David Pocock and the Leard Forest vs the ARU and the vandals in charge
• 1 December 2014 | 63 not out forever: Vale Phillip Hughes
• 25 November 2014 | Always and forever Lansdowne Road
• 19 November 2014 | G20 leaders slap down embarrassing Abbott and the COALition
• 17 November 2014 | The Stars of the South
• 9 November 2014 | How cricket's big bash is making us big
• 1 November 2014 | Bentleigh Green tops Adelaide City while Australian cricket dreams of green tops
• 30 October 2014 | Greg Hunt and the paid polluters' 'lower' electricity prices
• 26 October 2014 | Football and cricket: A tale of two tumbles
• 24 October 2014 | ANU stands firm against furious anti-divestment attacks: Just good business
• 19 October 2014 | AMA looks to hit alcohol advertising out of the park
• 16 October 2014 | Coal is NOT good for humanity — or Australia
• 11 October 2014 | Drugs in sport: Tour tainted again while unblemished Diamonds sparkle
• 8 October 2014 | The Minerals Council puts out the trash for old King Coal
• 4 October 2014 | Diamonds, Opals and the night NRL grand final
• 1 October 2014 | Alleged partiality in NSW Gov’t meetings with Rio Tinto over Warkworth coal mine continuation
• 27 September 2014 | Formula E and Roy and HG
• 20 September 2014 | Australia's biggest sports — and the footy
• 19 September 2014 | Who's paying for the Abbott Government propaganda in our power bills?
• 14 September 2014 | Sport on Sunday: Women, wheels and waves
• 6 September 2014 | League and Aussie rules gets serious
• 5 September 2014 | Rubbishing the RET for King Coal by David Leyonhjelm and The Australian
• 30 August 2014 | The Sydney Swans and Tommy Dean
• 25 August 2014 | U.S. Open tennis starts tonight: Australians in the mix
• 16 August 2014 | Bledisloe Cup battle: Australia looks to end New Zealand's record-breaking run
• 15 August 2014 | Why sport is important
• 14 August 2014 | Baird Government sacrifices wombats in quest for woodchips
• 9 August 2014 | Driving for dough at the U.S. PGA
• 7 August 2014 | Go-ahead for mega-coal mine threatens the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Artesian Basin
• 2 August 2014 | PREVIEW: Super Rugby grand final — Waratahs vs Crusaders
• 29 July 2014 | Au revoir au Tour de France
• 20 July 2014 | Yellow Jersey battle goes up hill and down dale
• 16 July 2014 | NSW Government clears way for widespread woodland devastation
• 12 July 2014 | The Tour de France experience
• 10 July 2014 | Germany's Brazillion and sod’s law
• 5 July 2014 | Le Tour de France rides again
• 30 June 2014 | World Cup 2014: David Attenborough of commentators and Hannibal Lecter of players
• 30 June 2014 | KNAGs win CSG battle at Bentley
• 18 June 2014 | World Cup Brazil 2014: Into the second round of matches
• 13 June 2014 | FIFA World Cup 2014 kicks off
• 5 June 2014 | The Leard Forest slaughter: Whitehaven bulldozes and rips while the animals kip
• 26 May 2014 | Abbot Point (Part 4): Government conceals toxic dredge spoil danger
• 24 April 2014 | The Leard Forest Maules Creek coal mine ecological disaster
• 21 April 2014 | Business as usual in NSW — one liar for another
• 8 April 2014 | Abbot Point (Part Three): Stopping Hunt dumping on the Reef
• 30 March 2014 | Dumping on the Reef: The Abbot Point disaster (Part Two)
• 20 March 2014 | Dumping on the Reef: The Abbot Point disaster (Part One)
• 17 March 2014 | March in March Byron Bay: Locals unite
• 11 March 2014 | NSW Government forces Origin to spread anti-carbon price propaganda
• 7 March 2014 | Morwell fire uncovers coal's hidden costs
• 6 March 2014 | Allowing alcohol advertising during kid's viewing times
• 25 February 2014 | Sochi and the renewable energy target