Pushing Aboriginal people off their land for mining interests is nothing new in Western Australia, but Premier Barnett’s plans to close 150 communities and gut the Aboriginal Heritage Act takes it to a new level, reports Mia Pepper You’d be forgiven for thinking West Australia was the Wild West. The announcement from the WA Government […]
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Having lived through the 1991 Desert Storm bombing and the 2003 Shock and Awe bombing in Iraq, I tread carefully when speaking about any danger greater than war that children in our world might face. I won’t forget children in Baghdadi hospitals whose bodies I have seen, wounded and maimed, after bombing campaigns ordered by […]
The residents of the Torres Strait Islands face becoming Australia’s first climate change refugees, a First Nations man from Darnley Island in the Torres Strait has warned. Torres Webb said the effect of man-made climate change, often denied by Prime Minister, Tony Abbott and right-wing politicians and commentators alike, was being seen first-hand right now […]
On an open jeep safari in Kruger National Park in South Africa, we sighted a gaunt-looking lioness stalking a herd of impala from a stony outcrop. Lions only hunt in the daylight when they are extremely hungry. The lioness’ location was radioed through by our ranger to other safari jeeps in our vicinity, despite our […]
Patents and the profit motive have combined to aggregate 73 per cent of the world’s commercial seed market to ten agrochemical companies. As a result 93 per cent of seed varieties are now effectively extinct. Monsanto is one of the leaders in the privatisation of what was once presumed free-to-all. Monsanto seems to be able […]
The Western Australian Forest Alliance has warned against the Federal Government’s Budget announcement to provide taxpayer-funded subsidies to companies that want to burn native forest trees in order to generate energy. “If the Abbott Government thinks it’s going to clearfell WA’s prized karri and jarrah forests for energy generation, itʼs got another think coming,” said WA Forest […]
Muckaty Station is a small township in the remote Northern Territory, 110km north of Tennant Creek and roughly 800km south of Darwin. Also known as Marlwanpa, the land is held under Native Title having formally been returned in 2001 to the traditional owners – the Milwayi, Ngapa, Ngarrka, Wirntiku, Kurrakurraja, Walanypirri and Yapayapa peoples. Muckaty […]
The 2014 Walkatjurra Walkabout will begin Thursday at Yeelirrie Station, Western Australia’s biggest uranium deposit, now owned by one of the world’s biggest uranium companies – Cameco. Elders from across the nation will lead the fourth Walkatjurra Walkabout, through Country in opposition to the proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine. Western Australia is on the brink of […]
Members of the Peasant Unified Movement of Honduras, carry mock coffins bearing pictures of people killed in land conflict clashes. There were 109 activist deaths between 2002-13 in Honduras, making it the world’s second deadliest country for communities defending natural resources. Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images from The Guardian Once can read chilling stories on Democracy […]
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is concerned that severe climate events are having a significant impact on the health care needs of Australians. The College of Nurses said that their concerns were reasserted this week with the release of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which details the affect climate change is […]
General News
- 5 Apr 2019
Public rental homes – ‘social housing’ – surprisingly to many only account for 4 percent of Australia’s 9 1/2 million households. There are only 400,000 public rental homes nationwide. Within these homes, after the homeless, live the poorest Australians. Only […]
(0) - 2 Apr 2019
We’re at the end of 2019’s first quarter and tragically the Australian suicide toll stands at 750 thus far. Suicide is the leading cause of unnatural deaths, yet suicide prevention is not a national priority. The Australian suicide toll is: […]
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We rail against homogeneity while beneath it all, the ambience and veils of the eclectic, we long for homogeneity, at least in the name and form of equality. Critical class and race theories abound but all remain manifestations. Windows into […]
(0) - 1 Jan 2019
There is more homelessness than is reported. Youth homelessness is on the increase. It’s complex in terms of the spectrum of issues; complex life circumstance dynamics that led to homelessness, including family violence and/or neglect of the needs of children, […]
(2) - 30 Aug 2018
The death of a child is always heartbreaking but when it is by suicide it is as devastating as it gets, with long term negative psychosocial effects for those left behind. There is a whole different level of anguish and […]
(0) - 22 Aug 2018
Future generations will damn the present for its atrocities as we damn and indict the past for theirs. The offshore custodial predicaments that have degenerated to indefinite immigration detention will cast a dark pall of grimness and aspersions into the […]
(0) - 8 Jun 2018
It’s been many a year since I reviewed my position in so far as an Australian republic is concerned. I know that from my arrival here 43 years ago I have always felt extremely uneasy about the fact that the […]
(0) - 3 May 2018
Over the last five or six years I have written extensively about the sheer discrimination that is present in our migration system here in Australia. That discrimination is not on the basis of race (that is another angle altogether – […]
(1) - 24 Apr 2018
Many reckon they understand the accumulation of life stresses hurting those who live below or in close proximity to the poverty line. Poverty and suicide intersect. Poverty and incarceration intersect. Incarceration and homelessness intersect. The layers of stresses and the […]
(0) - 22 Apr 2018
Wheelchairs for Kids is one of those one in a million charities where everyone is a volunteer, where no one draws any form of remuneration. In its three decades since establishment, it has donated rough terrain children’s wheelchairs to 73 […]
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