Whatever BHP Billiton wants to expand operations at its huge Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine, Australian authorities are almost frantic to give it. Clear violations of environment laws are not even being allowed to stand in the way.
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The nuclear industry has been responsible for some of the crudest racism in Australia's history. This racism dates from the British nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s but it can still be seen today.
The British government conducted 12 nuclear bomb tests in Australia in the 1950s, most of them at Maralinga in South Australia. Permission was not sought from affected Aboriginal groups such as the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Tjarutja and Kokatha. Thousands of people were adversely affected and the impact on Aboriginal people was particularly profound.
There is a lot to celebrate in the legacy of retiring Greens leader Senator Bob Brown. Above all, he has been central to holding together the most successful new electoral party project in Australia that sits significantly to the left of the traditional parties of government, Labor and Liberal-National. The Greens won 1.7 million votes out of 13 million voters in the last federal election.
About 80 activists and artists gathered outside the Queensland Government Executive Building on April 13 to voice their discontent over the axing of the Premier's Literary Awards.
The picket was called by Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of South Brisbane in the April 28 by-election, Liam Flenady, and Hannah Reardon-Smith, both of who are also artists.
鈥淪crapping the Premier鈥檚 Literary Awards in the name of budget savings makes no sense,鈥 Reardon-Smith said. 鈥淭he $244,000 saved amounts to a mere 0.00028% of what we鈥檙e told by Campbell Newman is our state鈥檚 $85 billion debt.
Activist Marlene Carrasco says some organisations visit refugees in Sydney鈥檚 Villawood detention centre in the same way they might make a trip to the zoo.
鈥淵ou know, [some of the big NGOs], they just come in, say hello, then the zoo visit鈥檚 over and they leave,鈥 Carrasco told 91自拍论坛 Weekly outside Villawood on a gloomy Easter Sunday.
The 42-year-old Muslim woman makes the short trip to Villawood every Sunday from Merrylands, the western Sydney suburb to which she migrated in the 1970s. She said visitors needed to do more than just visit refugees 鈥 and she should know.
So far this year we've raised $36,811 for the 91自拍论坛 Weekly Fighting Fund. This is a good effort, but well short of our running target. To reach our 2012 target of $250,000 we need to have raised about $80,000 by the end of this month.
The decision by the organisers of the three-day Marxism 2012 to invite a broader range of international speakers and allow other socialist groups to set up stalls at its three-day Marxism 2012 conference in Melbourne over the Easter long weekend was a welcome and positive step.
The conference is organised each year by Socialist Alternative and its sister organisation, the International Socialist Organisation of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Two officers identifying themselves as being from . If recent headlines are anything to go by () such surprise visits will become ever more frequent for anti-coal activists like me.
More than 150 people gathered at a public meeting in Hobart on April 3 to discuss the problems and solutions related to Forestry Tasmania, the government-owned company established to manage the state鈥檚 forest assets. The audience heard from Associate Professor Graeme Wells, Dr Frank Nicklason, Environment Tasmania鈥檚 Dr Phil Pullinger, veteran forest activist Geoff Law and Dr Andrew Lohrey.
In the largest protest so far in a campaign that has grown steadily since the start of semester, 1500 University of Sydney students and staff rallied on April 4 to protest against the university management's move to sack 360 academic and general staff.
鈥淵ou have to put more pressure on your government to allow Afghans to decide their own future,鈥 Afghan democracy activist and former MP Malalai Joya told a 150-strong public forum on April 11. 鈥淣o nation can liberate another nation,鈥 Joya said. 鈥淭en years of war should have made this clear. It's better the troops leave.鈥
Coalmine workers employed by the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) in central Queensland's Bowen Basin are standing firm in the face of escalating attacks by their employer. In the latest round, BHP has announced the closure of its Norwich Park coalmine, south-east of Dysart. The move is clearly aimed at putting pressure on the mineworkers to settle their longstanding industrial dispute.
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