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” There needs to be proper policies put into place where the community gets consulted about the sale of these lands before they actually go ahead and sell them off.”
Category: Environment
A Natural Wonder in Peril
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
by Iain McCalman
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pp.,… Go to Article
‘Won’t get fooled again’?
Time that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives; Pardons cowardice, conceit, Lays its honours at their feet.… Go to Article
The town that was murdered
[Broadcast on PShift, 4zzz, fm 102.1, at noon on friday 7 feb 2014]
We drove up to a small park in Acland to meet the town’s sole surviving citizen Glen.… Go to Article
Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”) is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated by twelve nations; the US, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.… Go to Article
Protected: Coal
Gomeroi community demands protection
Gomeroi community demands Federal Environment Minister Hunt protect family graves from Whitehaven mine
Gomeroi community demands Federal Environment Minister Hunt protect family graves from Whitehaven mine
Gomeroi Elders and community members have issued a statement today (attached) imploring Federal Environment Minister Hunt to protect their ancestor’s graves at the Maules Creek mine operated by Whitehaven in regional NSW.… Go to Article
Call for help as cyclone hits Tonga
Be it climate change or not, this unseasonal cyclone has caused widespread destruction to the South Pacific archipelago of Tonga. The people are resilient and will re-build after the destruction caused by the storm.… Go to Article
Thou shalt not steal – Coal Miners invade Gamilaraay country
Coal Miners invade Gamilaraay country
Traditional owner Paul Spearim speaks with environmental engineer Trevor Berrill and PShift’s Ian Curr about moves by Whitehaven Coal, Idemitsu, Boggabri Coal and Santos to invade Gamilaraay country and to destroy the environment in the process.… Go to Article
Mirarr safety fears remain despite Ranger visit
Traditional owners in Kakadu National Park still fear for the health of their country after a technical team visited the Ranger Uranium Mine today, following a series of pollution spills and safety breaches.… Go to Article
Aboriginal delegation to Santos, “Stop before it’s too late!”
… Go to ArticleTo all Gamilaraay people living in Brisbane who would like to be a part of this, please turn up to Musgrave park at 9.00am to be painted up in Gamilaraay designs.
Palmer Drama
BOB KATTER: Well I’m tenaciously opposed to Clive (Palmer) getting the railway line or any other private person. And remember that these people represent foreign corporations, Gina Rinehart etcetera.… Go to Article
Film tells tale of Otway forestry battle
CLEARFELLING of bio diverse native forest on public land in the Otway Ranges ended in 2008 and the five-year anniversary of this environmental achievement will be celebrated when the Lorne Film Festival premieres the short film ‘Forest for the Trees’ later this month.… Go to Article
Will the Pilliga turn into the head of an octopus?
Winangaya dhawun. Respect the land
Kamillaroi elder Maureen Sulter
Attached is the flyer and map of location for the culture ceremony to be held at the Pilliga Protection Camp this Saturday the 16th of November.
… Go to Article Invitation to Pilliga Protection Camp Culture Week
Here is the information regarding the Pilliga Protection Culture Week.
Attached is the flyer and map of location for the culture ceremony to be held at the Pilliga Protection Camp this Saturday the 16th of November.… Go to Article
Lock the Gate Film Night
Thu Nov 14 – Lock the Gate Film Night 7pm @ Souths Leagues Club, Davies Park, 120 Jane St, West End
Lock the Gate Film Night
Thursday Nov 14 7pm
Lock the Gate Brisbane invite you along to an informative night with the screening of the two new ground-breaking documentaries from Lock the Gate Alliance.… Go to Article
No to Newman. No to uranium mining.
In 1977 Bjelke-Petersen tried to stop the anti-uranium movement by banning
street marches. Unionists and students launched a defiant campaign which
gained community support.… Go to Article
Film: Manufacturing Dissent
Source: Thanks to The Radical Times Archive for Debra Beattie’s doco Manufacturing Dissent.
“History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.”… Go to Article
Film: Fractured country, an unconventional invasion
… Mining starts in existing Tarkine reserve
The official opening of the Nelson Bay River mine in the Tarkine wilderness highlights the inadequacies of Tasmania’s existing reserve system and industrial approvals in the state.… Go to Article
Public inquiry into Bill to extend mining to 2035 on Stradbroke
Wednesday 30 October
9am -1pm.
Parliament House
The committee will hear evidence from interested parties.
Location Parliament House
RSVP 07 3406 7908
Sibelco likely to be scheduled first up, Quandamooka People will give presentations as will the environment sector, interested individuals and island businesses.… Go to Article
Saving old growth forests in Tasmania
Excerpts from ‘Explorers of Western Tasmania‘ by C.J. Binks
In April 1825, Edward Curr (a former settlor) had by this time accepted temporary appointment as secretary of the new company (VDL Pty Ltd).… Go to Article
Historic film: If U Don’t Fight U Lose
The video you see was put together after the Queensland state election in 1977.
The video you see was shot and edited under difficult circumstances over 35 years ago, after the Queensland state election in 1977.… Go to Article
Refugees, sea shepherds, and bankers…
Hi folks,
Greetings from France, where the European leg of my world tour has begun… Next is Germany, Denmark, Norway and Belgium, then North America. … Go to Article
Sand-mining fears for Quandamooka
by Courtesy of Koori Mail.
QUANDAMOOKA Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation (QYAC) chair Cameron Costello is deeply concerned that a close relationship between the Queensland Government and sand-mining company Sibelco could see sand-mining on North Stradbroke Island extended without permission of the traditional owners.… Go to Article
Vale Ross Watson
Ross Watson – a leader of the 1982 Commonwealth Games protests and founder of the Murri school and of Murri radio (fm 98.9) in Brisbane – died this week.… Go to Article
Chernobyl Heart
6pm Wednesday 24 April
lock n’load (upstairs function room)
142 Boundary St, West End
How to get there – take bus 199 to Stop 7, Boundary Street, West End.… Go to Article
Council’s case against Homer reaches new depths
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”… Go to Article
Stradbroke island sand still being sold unlawfully
Stradbroke island sand still being sold unlawfully – http://www.riversideindustrialsands.com.au
The Supreme Court in 2010 ruled that the company could not sell silica sand under its mining leases for purposes such as mortar and render.… Go to Article
The Australian Green Development Forum hosting Cuban Professor
The Australian Green Development Forum is hosting eminent Cuban Professor for their roadshow on April 1st.
Follow the hyperlink for more information and registration
Professor Fernando Martirena from Santa Clara University in Cuba will be our special guest for the 2013 AGDF Building Resilience Roadshow.… Go to Article