Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, and both are increasing as a matter of government policy. But a homegrown climate action movement is putting a spanner in the works - and just stopped its first coal train.
… Train crash - Australia 'heading backwards' on emissions … Oliver Tickell | 19th December 2014 News Australia Coal Fossil Fuel Politics Climate … Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back!
… Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people Jim Green | 1st July 2016 News Australia Waste Pollution Nuclear Politics WMD Indigenous Peoples kylie sambo-cut.jpg Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful …
Australian governments have long waged a one-sided war on the continent's Aboriginal peoples, writes John Pilger. And now a new weapon has come into play: the starvation of the most remote, culturally intact communities. It's all part of a multi-faceted program of physical and cultural annihilation. And yet the world is silent.
… Starvation in Australia: Utopia's dirty secret John Pilger | 12th April 2016 Comment Australia Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Food Politics Genocide utopia.jpg Australian governments have long waged a …
Australia must acknowledge the horrors lurking in its own history, writes Fiona Broom, and admit to its continuing Aboriginal genocide. It's made harder by the deliberate ignorance of Australia's mainstream culture, politics and media. But with John Pilger's outstanding film, 'Utopia', the excuses are fast running out.
… Utopia - breaking the Great Australian Silence Fiona Broom | 8th January 2015 Reviews Indigenous Peoples Australia Politics Media Film arnhem-land-cut.jpg Australia must acknowledge the horrors lurking …
Natural disasters like flood and drought have cost the Australian government more than A$12 billion since 2009, write Tayanah O'Donnel & Josephine Mummery, with even harsher weather events predicted for coming decades. Clearly, it's just the time for Australia to eliminate funding for research on adapting to climate change.
… Australia axes climate change adaptation … May 2017 News Climate Change Politics Finance Australia Adaptation queensland-flood-cut.jpg … like flood and drought have cost the Australian government more than A$12 billion …
New figures show that three quarters of the sharks caught by Western Australia's shark baiting were undersize. All the more reason to halt the program, writes Elizabeth Claire Alberts - and to end similar programs elsewhere in Australia
… Australia's shark baiting - cruel, dangerous, … quarters of the sharks caught by Western Australia's shark baiting were undersize. All … - and to end similar programs elsewhere in Australia To say that people are angry about …
It's fine for 'green' groups to plant trees, or rescue baby flying foxes, write Susan & Bill Laurance. But when they campaign for the environment, right wing politicians see red, Moves are now afoot to strip advocacy groups of their charitable status, reflecting a broader clamp down on eco-activism across the Asia Pacific region in China, Cambodia, Lao and India.
… Australia prepares tax penalty attack on … Laurance Bill Laurance | 13th June 2014 News Australia Campaigning Politics … inquiry currently being considered by the Australian government - specifically, by the …
In a blunt rebuke to Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott, US President Obama stated that 'every nation has the responsibility to do its part' on climate change, writes Michelle Grattan - in a clear reference to the G20 host's backsliding on climate promises.
… | 17th November 2014 News Climate Change USA Australia Oceans Politics … Feldman under Licence. In a blunt rebuke to Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott, US … promises. US president Barack Obama has given Australia a sharp prod on climate change, …
Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John Pilger. The 'lost generation' policies were meant to have ended in 1969, but a new wave of child thefts is under way - 2013 figures show that 13,914 Aboriginal children were in 'out of home care'.
… Once again, Australia is stealing Its indigenous children John Pilger | 6th April 2014 News Australia Society Politics Indigenous Peoples aboriginal-children.png Australia is still stealing Aboriginal …
For 80 years Australia's Aboriginal peoples have called for land rights and sovereignty, writes Harry Hobbs. And for 80 years they have been ignored or brushed aside. But now delegates meeting at Uluru have issued a 'statement from the heart' demanding constitutional reform to empower Indigenous people to take 'a rightful place in our own country'. Their call must be heard!
… Australia's time to recognise indigenous … Harry Hobbs UNSW | 26th May 2017 Comment Australia Indigenous Peoples Human Rights The Land Politics uluru-cut.jpg For 80 years Australia's Aboriginal peoples have called for …
In a radical departure from it's 'pro free speech' rhetoric, Australia's 'Liberal' government wants to ban environmental boycotts. But as Bill Laurance writes, eco-boycotts are not only an effective tool for reining in corporate excesses - they are also a key democratic right.
… Laurance | 7th April 2014 Comment Forests Australia Media Politics Campaigning … from it's 'pro free speech' rhetoric, Australia's 'Liberal' government wants to ban … critics - for helping it to see the light. Australia's response? Ban environmental …
A 350-member Citizens' Jury convened to decide on whether a massive nuclear waste dump would benefit South Australia just gave the plans a big 'No!', writes Ian Lowe. SA Premier Weatherill must drop his attempt to reverse that decision with a referendum, and accept the jury's well informed, democratic verdict.
… No means no! South Australia must dump the nuclear dump Ian Lowe … 16th November 2016 Comment Nuclear Waste Law Australia Indigenous Peoples Politics … nuclear waste dump would benefit South Australia just gave the plans a big 'No!', …
Australian environmentalists' declare new Prime Minister, Tony Abbotts' green agenda as ‘anti-environmental', designed only to profit the mining industry at the cost of climate change solutions, reports Maxine Newlands......
… New Australian Prime Ministers' anti-environmental … September 2013 News Climate Change Politics Australia fish.jpg Australian environmentalists' declare new …
Political earthquakes in Canada and Australia have seen climate-sceptic leaders replaced by new ones committed to effective climate action, write David Konisky & Matto Mildenberger. It may be going too far to say that's why they were elected - but these elections do show that green policies are no electoral drawback.
… 2015 Comment Climate Change Politics Canada Australia USA trudeau-victory-cut.jpg … Political earthquakes in Canada and Australia have seen climate-sceptic leaders … comes shortly after fellow climate skeptic , Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, was …
Australia's Labor scored a big win in Victoria's election this weekend - and with the party's 'green' policies that's potentially good news for the state's exploited forests. Now's the time to keep campaigning for the early creation of a Great Forest National Park.
… Heather Keith | 1st December 2014 Comment Australia Politics Forests Biodiversity huge-mountain-ash-cut.jpg Australia's Labor scored a big win in … storage, potentially delivering about 8% of Australia's overall emissions reduction target …
What do the Australian Environment Foundation, the Renewable Energy Foundation and the Global Warming Policy Foundation have in common? They are all fiercely anti-environment, writes William Laurance - and we must beware their 'eco-doublespeak'.
… Politics Campaigning Renewables Energy UK Australia Media sheep-wolf-teeth-cut.jpg What do the Australian Environment Foundation, the … George Orwell would have appreciated the Australian Environment Foundation . That's …
New analysis of the vast body of research shows 97% of climate scientists agree that human activities are fuelling climate change, writes Tim Radford. But thanks to aggressive attempts to convince us otherwise, only 12% of people in the US are aware of this high level of agreement.
… research project. But sadly not in Australia and the USA, hotbeds of climate change denialism. US and Australian scientists have found an … of Queensland's Global Change Institute in Australia, and colleagues from the US, Canada …
Why does the fracking lobby refuse to engage in open, public debate? Because, writes Paul Mobbs, it has already got its way, with the uncritical support of all the 'mainstream' media and political parties. You and I simply do not matter. So what are we going to do about that?
… the USA, Canada, Poland, South Africa, Australia, etc.) we can conclude little else. … developments are making the opposite case: In Australia, the New South Wales Government … or uncertain impacts of these processes. Australia has seen some recent high-profile …
The world is in the grip of a massive wave of militarism of which most of us are blissfully ignorant, writes John Pilger. When did mainstream media last tell you about the US's $1 trillion nuclear weapon renewal? NATO's massive build up of military power on Russia's eastern frontier? The encirclement of China by nuclear-armed US bases? The world is at war. Pass it on!
… in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. … bombers. This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the … media. In 2015, in high secrecy, the US and Australia staged the biggest single air-sea …
Environment minister Tony Burke says the government has done its best to stop downgrading of UN heritage status
… minister, Tony Burke, told Guardian Australiaimprovements made since May showed … confident that we have evidence to show that Australia takes management of the reef … [UNESCO] understands the limits we have under Australian law. It's a nuanced situation. "But …
Last October Greenland repealed a law that banned uranium mining. Now mysterious Australian mining companies are staking out the country for exploitation. But as Antony Loewenstein reports, local fears are growing, and political opposition is heating up.
… Australian uranium mining in Greenland is … that banned uranium mining. Now mysterious Australian mining companies are staking out … is heating up. This is a story about an Australian company you've never heard of, …
As the G7 leaders prepare to meet in Bavaria this weekend, small-scale farmers from around the world call on them to abandon their disastrous plan for the corporate takeover of global agriculture and the extirpation of small-scale farmers everywhere - those who produce most of the world's food. True food security must be rooted in local control over land, seeds and water.
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Superpower confrontations and growing tensions in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Arctic are all part of a new Cold War, writes Alexander Reid Ross - and this time Green campaigners are under attack by both Russian authorities and NATO ...
… spying cases have been revealed in the UK and Australia, with industry hiring undercover … to spy on the Mauls Creek blockade in Australia and the UK deploying undercover …
Boosters of 'free trade' agreements - like the Trans Pacific Partnership that's being signed today - like to make big promises, writes Pete Dolack: trillions of dollars of economic gains, billions of dollars of investment, millions of new jobs. But there's only one certainty, and it's one they never mention: the permanent redistribution of power and income from working people to capital.
… GDP per year on average, as a result of TPP; Australia an extra 0.07% annually, and Canada … in the US alone. Canada, Mexico, Japan and Australia would each suffer jobs losses in the … It also can't be reached if Canada, Australia and Mexico each fail to ratify, so …