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1. Gov'ts, corporations must stop pillaging the Pilliga

   Mining Environment John Rainford Pilliga Forest Great Artesian Basin Water The Great Artesian ... Basin is one of the world’s largest underground water reservoirs. It is the only source of water for ... commissioned by the Artesian Bore Water Users Association (ABWUA). The report found that the reservoir’s ...

2. NSW politics: corrupt and corrupting

   inquiry, which will examine people associated with a company called Australian Water Holdings (AWH), is ... Water. The Obeid family has an investment in AWH, which holds contracts with state-owned Sydney Water to ... Girolamo, who was also on the board of Sydney Water until he resigned following the ICAC announcement. Di ...

3. Shell now planning for catastrophic climate change

   set to carry out more environmentally irresponsible deep-water drilling as a result of their planned ... $US74 billion takeover of rival company BG. BG is a British multinational with several deep-water ... its presence in deep-water drilling at the same time as increasing operations in liquefied natural gas ...

4. Planning reform a miserable farce in NSW

   “The next Liberal-National government will ensure that mining cannot occur in any water catchment area ... to shift the blame to the PAC for allowing mining in water catchment areas. The government hides ... submissions to the PAC opposing CSG mining on the Illawarra escarpment in a water catchment area weren’t ...

5. Why the refugee crisis will get worse

   such as food and water supplies that are being constrained by climate factors would lead to conflict. ... which claims that water shortages were a prominent factor in the 2011 Syrian civil war. According to the ... forced to move to urban areas due to dwindling water resources and their ongoing mismanagement. The ...

6. Sinodinos and the $20 million deal

   before he became chairman of Australian Water Holdings (AWH) that the cashflow and costs of the company ... government-owned Sydney Water to lay water and sewerage pipes. With the NSW government certain to change from ALP ... Sydney Water, so it was actually the NSW taxpayers who were funding the Liberal Party. Sinodinos stood to ...

7. Government spin masks real agenda on CSG

   would have put into effect the election promise by O’Farrell to ban CSG operations in water catchment ... CSG development in drinking water catchment areas. As the demonstrations in Bentley showed just days ...

8. ICAC finds Eddie Obeid corrupt again

   influencing the actions of two public servants over the water allocation for the farm. There is also the ... possibility of further findings over the Obeid family’s secret stake in Australian Water Holdings. Despite ...

9. Climate warnings coming true in Australia

   ozone depletion, fresh water use, change in land use, biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, atmospheric ... water, together with a loss in pollination. We were forewarned of this in 1972 when Limits to Growth, ...

10. Corruption commission investigates coal collusion

    Central Coast MPs Chris Hartcher, Darren Webber and Chris Spence donned “water not coal” shirts at a rally ...

11. Privatisation leads to higher prices, unemployment

    of 60%. Since June 1995, productivity in electricity, gas and water fell by 24.9%. In all other ...

12. Steel city becomes anti-gas leader

    to prevent CSG mining in the Sydney Basin water catchment area. But the struggle goes on for bans on ...

13. Annette Schneider willing to pay price for stopping coal trains

    food and water supplies. “We can’t all lie down in front of coal trains, but we can stop the culture of ...

14. Fast train plans show CSG danger

    fugitive methane gas emissions. After water is removed from coal seams, the methane becomes mobile and can ...

15. Japan: New elections amid more economic gloom

    clean up the plant in the past four years, 500,000 tonnes of contaminated water with nowhere else to go ... is now stored in more than 1000 tanks on site. A large quantity of contaminated water still finds its ...

16. Drugs of modernity – crystal methampetamine

    early 1980s. In its white crystalline powder form, cocaine hydrochloride is a water-soluble salt that ... When these two drugs were withdrawn in 1962 and 1963, demand for a powdered form of water soluble speed ...

17. Unemployment same as during financial crisis

    world is still in recession or barely treading water. China’s growth forecasts have been lowered from ...

18. Royal Commission won’t look at employer practices

    current royal commission? Ackland said: “In my waters, I feel that Dyson Heydon is just the sort of ...

19. The rise and fall of free education

    in the life of a growing number of citizens. The high-water mark was reached in 1975-76. In 1948-49, ...

20. The politics of Australia’s unemployment

    national president, Alistair Waters, said: “Surveys have been cut altogether, we’ve seen changes to the ...

21. The return of WorkChoices? Productivity Commission’s attack on workers’ rights

    identifying impediments to jobs growth. What this can only lead to is either a watering down of present ...

22. The real reason for the Productivity Commission

    watered down and penalty rates would become a two-tier system with Sunday penalty rates in the ...

23. Dyson Heydon has form

    “In my waters, I feel that Dyson Heydon is just the sort of take-no-prisoners man to make the ...