Newsletter date: 31 August 2015; last updated 31 August 2015, 7:30am AEST
Contents:
* News Analysis: Brian Williams, The Courier-Mail: QLD News: Traditional owner to challenge Carmichael mine in Federal Court over job and revenue claims [featuring Traditional Owner Adrian Burragubba]
* News Analysis: Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): Prime Minister's interference in Adani mine & port decisions alarming - AMCS
* News Analysis: Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): Federal Govt must not use taxpayer funds to prop up Adani's reef-risking project
* News Analysis: Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): AMCS welcomes Treasurer Curtis Pitt comments that Carmichael not the be-all for QLD economy
* News & Media: Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): Protecting Australia's Ocean Wildlife Since 1965: http://www.marineconservation.org.au/news.php
* News Analysis: Peter Hannam, Queensland Country Life: Govt aid for coal industry 'unwise' [featuring Connie Hedegaard, international climate expert and former EU Commissioner for Climate Action]
* News Analysis: Bernard Keane, Crikey: Court doc confirms: govt admitted screwing up Adani approval
* Background:
WGAR Background: Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners reject Adani's coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin
WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
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- News Analysis
The Courier-Mail: QLD News: Traditional owner to challenge Carmichael mine in Federal Court over job and revenue claims [featuring Traditional Owner Adrian Burragubba]
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/traditional-owner-to-chall...
29 Aug 15: "AN INDIGENOUS group has accused the Adani megamine of giving faulty information as the desperately needed jobs creator faces yet another legal hurdle. Traditional owner Adrian Burragubba will challenge the mine in the Federal Court claiming flawed and misleading analysis of jobs and revenue, and also accused the native title tribunal of racial discrimination for not granting him and other Aboriginals equal rights before it. ... Mr Burragubba’s lawyer Benedict Coyne has denied any suggestion of green conspiracy saying funding came from the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation and the legal team were working free. ... " Brian Williams, The Courier-Mail
- News Analysis
Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): Prime Minister's interference in Adani mine & port decisions alarming - AMCS
http://www.marineconservation.org.au/news.php/678/prime-ministers-interf...
28 Aug 15: "The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) has condemned Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s demands that Adani’s Carmichael coal mine must go ahead, calling it an abuse of the environmental approval process. "The Federal Government is supposed to make an independent and balanced assessment of major projects before deciding whether to grant environmental approvals" said AMCS Great Barrier Reef campaigner Gemma Plesman ... "How can the Australian public have any faith that there will be a proper assessment of the impacts of these projects when the Prime Minister has just told business leaders - and his Environment Minister - that they must back this project." ... "
- News Analysis
Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): Federal Govt must not use taxpayer funds to prop up Adani's reef-risking project
http://www.marineconservation.org.au/news.php/675/federal-govt-must-not-...
25 Aug 15: "The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) is calling on the Abbott Government to rule out using taxpayer money to bail-out Adani’s Carmichael mine, rail and port project, which would ship coal out through the Great Barrier Reef. ... "It would be crazy for the Abbott Government to throw taxpayer’s money after a risky project that threatens the Great Barrier Reef and the tourism industry that relies on it," said AMCS Great Barrier Reef campaigner Gemma Plesman. "Subsidising Adani’s rail line with a grant or loan from the Northern Australia Development Fund would lead to increased dredging, shipping and port development, all actions that put more pressure on an already vulnerable Reef. ... ""
- News Analysis
Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): AMCS welcomes Treasurer Curtis Pitt comments that Carmichael not the be-all for QLD economy
http://www.marineconservation.org.au/news.php/677/amcs-welcomes-treasure...
27 Aug 15: "The Australian Marine Conservation Society has welcomed Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt’s comments that Adani’s Carmichael coal mine is not the be-all and end-all for the Queensland economy. "The Queensland economy doesn’t rely on Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, not when the Reef brings in 69,000 jobs and $6 billion to the economy" said AMCS Great Barrier Reef campaigner Gemma Plesman. "In court Adani representatives admitted their royalties figures had been inflated and they would only pay $3.7b to the Queensland Government over the life of the mine, not the $22b they have publicly claimed. ... " ... Gemma Plesman is available to comment ... "
- News & Media
Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): Protecting Australia's Ocean Wildlife Since 1965
http://www.marineconservation.org.au/news.php
- News Analysis
Queensland Country Life: Govt aid for coal industry 'unwise' [featuring Connie Hedegaard, international climate expert and former EU Commissioner for Climate Action]
http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/news/agriculture/general/news/go...
25 Aug 15: "ABBOTT government subsidies for the coal industry including the proposed mega-mines of Queensland's Galilee basin would not be "wise", says Connie Hedegaard, the former European Commissioner for Climate Action. ... While stressing it was not her role to criticise specific projects, Ms Hedegaard said Australia and other nations with large coal reserves - such as Germany - had agreed at the G20 and elsewhere to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels. "It's not enough to say that we want to [cut subsidies]. We have to start doing it," Ms Hedegaard told Fairfax Media. "A good place would be not to have more subsidies for fossil fuels." ... " Peter Hannam
- News Analysis
Crikey: Court doc confirms: govt admitted screwing up Adani approval
http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/08/25/court-doc-confirms-govt-admitted-scr...
25 Aug 15: "Federal Court documents show that the government admitted it bungled the approval of the Carmichael coal project - a failure it has refused to acknowledge in its campaign to gut a key Commonwealth environment protection act. The government’s justification for gutting the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act - which "vigilante litigants" and "environmental militants" are using courts to block sensitive projects - has been further discredited as information relating to Federal Court action to stop the Carmichael coal mine projects emerges. In a letter obtained by Crikey from the Australian Government ... " Bernard Keane, Crikey Politics Editor
- Background:
WGAR Background: Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners reject Adani's coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/06/01/wgar-background-wangan-jagalingou-tr...
(last updated: 22 August 2015)
WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-the-aboriginal-so...
(last updated: 28 August 2015)
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