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1. NT landowners battle for a healthy river

   Indigenous Environment Democracy Emma Murphy Water Mataranka Representatives from the Environment ... 13 to host a public meeting about water allocations in the region. The Country Liberal Party ... a water planning committee — made up of local pastoralists, traditional owners, Department of Land ...

2. NT Labor conference votes to ban fracking

   recommendations are implemented we can protect the environment, water, existing jobs industries, sacred sites and ... Manangoora cattle station near Borroloola and a fishing tourism business, said: "Water is life for our ... region and we are here to tell the government today that we will not accept any more risk to our water ...

3. Darwin pub staff take a stand against racism

   would ask me to charge (Indigenous customers) for water, which we’re obviously not allowed to do because ...

4. Darwin rally demands Labor keep its promises

   inquiry into the impacts of an onshore shale gas industry, which would collect baseline data on water ... quality and look at all aspects of the industry — water usage, land clearing, contamination risks and the ... water. I know the territory is a bit of a basket case financially, but if this industry goes ahead, in 50 ...

5. NT gas pipeline will lock in climate pollution for decades, say campaigners

   proposals include some positive steps, such as making mining and petroleum operations subject to the Water ... pointing out that he sits on the board of Icon Water, which, along with the board of Jemena, manages a gas ... what happens when water is poisoned. He told the meeting: “We're already dealing with ...

6. Historic land claim victory for Mithaka people

   native title over more than 33,800 square kilometres of their land and waters on October 27. This is one ... land and waters in the Diamantina and Barcoo shires, and in the expansive Channel Country of outback ...

7. Traditional owner: don't mine our land

   a significant Alice Springs water supply. Canadian resource giant, Cameco, has entered a joint venture with ... problems with the pace of ground water restoration, according to Canada's Calgary Herald. Traditional ... "There's a bore there and Alice Springs communities get their water from there, it would be too ...

8. Indigenous people most affected by climate change

   water and food-borne diseases will increase dramatically. While the IPCC doesn’t specifically link this ... the salination of freshwater, changes in flowering patterns and fish moving to colder water”. Lisa ...

9. Rural Darwin fired up over gas plans

   water sources.” Emma King, a local resident and member of Don’t Frack the Territory, highlighted the ... build roads and use water, with only small exclusion areas around gardens and houses. King said she ...

10. Dig the music, not the poison

    close to the town’s water supply and four Aboriginal communities. Canadian mining company Cameco, on ...

11. Defiant anti-APEC protesters gather

    police water cannon is already on display, and the gathered activists have had motorcades of riot squad ...

12. NT government caves in to anti-fracking pressure

    a bore field that supplies 20% of Darwin’s water. Public objections to the application closed in ... organised to protect their land and water. Just days before the announcement of the rural area reservation, ... asking for their coastal waters to be protected from exploration. The Protect Arnhem Land campaign was ...

13. NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance

    This includes nearly all of Arnhem Land, national parks, popular fishing areas, water catchments and ... — associated with methane leakage, water contamination and other concerns — were beyond regulation. There was ...

14. Good news stories from the desert country

    wailing that he was lost in the desert and needed "beer, water, food and rugs. Especially beer." ... only got water through the charity of people at Ippenarra station. We were paying up to $10,000 and we ...

15. Cyclone Lam hits Aboriginal Communities in NT who now face weeks without housing

    outstations to assess the damage. The same day, communities finally had access to safe drinking water again, ... without safe drinking water and dry bedding could have even more devastating consequences than we ... know if and when it was safe to leave the shelters or drink the water. These messages were shared, ...

16. What's behind government refugee bashing?

    with the Indonesia government to intercept the refugees' boat before it entered Australian waters ... dangerous waters and funded detention of asylum seekers in transit countries — was too soft. The poll also ...

17. NT protest house: union solidarity with Aboriginal struggle

    — about 40°C at 10 in the morning — and the water had to be bucketed in, we would start at 5 in the ... Paddy [Gibson], we would head out with elders to the local water hole about an hour away to cool off and ...

18. NT: Young people tell of solitary confinement, gassing

    in the Behaviour Management Unit (BMU) have no fans or air conditioning, no access to drinking water ...

19. Climate change comes to the Torres Strait

    Aboriginal communities, can increase exposure to water-borne disease during flooding, for example. In the ...

20. Jailed Burmese refugees: ‘We came here for freedom’

    came in four boats, arriving in Australian waters between September 2009 and January 2010. They were ...

21. Solidarity is vital for Indigenous struggle

    drinking water on site. But building a new community is a long-term project. The Socialist Alliance ...

22. Solidarity is vital for Indigenous struggle

    drinking water on site. But building a new community is a long-term project. The Socialist Alliance ...

23. Anti-APEC protesters: united and peaceful

    Public Order and Riot Squad vehicles, including the new $600,000 water cannon, sirens blaring, past the ...

24. NT walk-off: Indigenous community defies racist intervention

    in the protest camp, despite high temperatures, scarce water and fierce dust storms. Donald Thompson, ...

25. Why Twiggy’s Aboriginal jobs plan will fail

    phased-out and watered-down into a corporate-controlled work-for-the-dole scheme. Senator Mark Arbib told ...