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Forest Rescue tie up logging operation.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 27/02/2012 - 5:41pm

Media Release: Forest Rescue 27th February 2012

Forest Rescue has successfully stopped work within the Warrup section six logging coupe again today, Monday 27th February 2012.

A Forest Rescue activist has tied up all logging machines within the Warrup logging coupe, and then suspended himself in a jarrah tree attached to the web like rope system, bringing work to a halt.

Forest Rescue has been battling the FPC and Warren Forest Products Services for nearly an entire month now.

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Biggest ever environmental rally in Malaysia - Against Australian company Lynas Pty Ltd

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 27/02/2012 - 10:24am

Australia’s Lynas Rare Earth Plant made history in Malaysia today when a nationwide rally to stop the project occurred. An estimated 20,000 citizens together with Malaysian civil society organisations converged in Kuantan for a rally to protest against the Lynas project and to demand for a clean and safe future for Malaysia. The Stop Lynas campaign has escalated into the biggest ever environmental issue for the country. Participants arrived from all over the country including the east Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.
Related: stoplynas.org -- Rally footage on Youtube -- Coverage in The Age

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Barnett kills numbats

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 25/02/2012 - 2:53pm

The Forest Products Commission are currently attempting to decimate the largest intact numbat colony in our state at Warrup forest. There are more pandas in the wild in China (1600) than numbats in Western Australia (under 1000), and the numbat is our state fauna emblem.
"It is disgusting in this day and age that the Barnett government have scant disregard for our state emblem, which is on the brink of extinction. How will we explain to future generations that we stood idly by while the FPC destroyed the last major colony of numbats." - Forest Rescue spokesperson Simon Peterffy.

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My hat goes off to those organising DIY events around Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 21/02/2012 - 4:16pm

Recently I read an article on Indymedia that was a review on a DIY bridge gig held in North Melbourne. I have decided to write this follow-up article looking at a few of the DIY gigs that have been happening around Melbourne at the moment. Especially in the punk scene lot of the DIY of movement has been growing somewhat stale compared to what it has been in previous days.

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No nukes for NSW

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 21/02/2012 - 5:36am

SNAP RALLY: No Uranium Mining NSW
12.30pm. Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Outside NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Bring friends, banners, signs ...

The O'Farrell government has introduced legislation to overturn a 26‐year ban on uranium exploration in NSW, opening the way for future proposals to mine and export uranium.

The NSW government has no mandate for uranium mining in NSW. This issue was not raised at the election and, until recently, Premier O'Farrell maintained that government had 'no plans' to overturn the ban.

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Recognition of inherent Aboriginal title

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 6:37pm

Not much use a charter of rights that can't be ratified by a women's legislature since all that does is perpetuate male privilege, which is at cause of why a charter of rights is needed in the first place.

The doctrine of discovery, as with terra nullius, is male speculation intended to preserve male privilege, which wouldn't survive autonomous female scrutiny, as the collapse of these approaches with the empowerment of women attests.

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International news and opinion

Wilkie to supprt Abbott for PM

Submitted by Noel Conway on Mon, 30/01/2012 - 2:44pm

Andrew Wilkie has shown his true colours in this report where he has said he will vote in favour of a motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister. Wilkie will not forgive Gillard for ditching his pokies reform bill and will now vote with the opposition to unsettle the government. Wilkie can no longer say he is concerned about the welfare of working families, which his pokies reform was meanto to do, Abbott will turn back the boats, tear up workchoices,

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Turn back the boats

Submitted by Noel Conway on Sat, 21/01/2012 - 8:17pm

The Opposition under Tony Abbott if they win election have a very clear policy to Turn Back the Boats. This goes beyond the idea of off shore processing or temporary visas, it means refugees will no longer be able to land on our shores. If anyone thinks that there is not a clear distinction between Labour an dthe Liberal Pary on this issue read this article. The Liberal's are turning back th eclock and entering very murky waters, they will rip up work choices, aband

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END:CIV director Franklin López to tour Australia

Submitted by stimulator on Fri, 20/01/2012 - 9:08am

END:CIV director Franklin López to tour Australia.

END:CIV illustrates the brutality of a civilization addicted to
systematic violence and environmental destruction, and the heroism of
those who confront it head-on.

As Australia is beginning to experience more frequent environmental
crises resulting from climate change and a history of poor environmental
management this film will be instrumental in bringing awareness of the
need to confront the system which allows this destruction to continue.

López’s will answer questions from the audience and lead a discussion

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Concern for Iranian refugees on hunger strike in Broadmeadows Detention Centre

Submitted by benjaminsolah on Mon, 16/01/2012 - 2:09pm

Refugee activists have raised concerns for the welfare of two Iranian refugees currently on hunger strike in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accomodation centre in Broadmeadows, after one refugee, on hunger strike now for 6 days, was found lying by the fence.

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