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1. Land Court approves Kevin’s Corner coalmine

   just total injustice.” He said changes to Queensland water laws made it “even easier for big miners to ... unlimited groundwater”. Without water, he said, farmers’ livelihoods would be destroyed. Annette Currie ...

2. Big win for Palestine as US students at Barnard College vote to divest from apartheid profiteers

   Elbit Systems,  Lockheed Martin,  Hewlett-Packard,  Bank Hapoalim  and  Mekorot, Israel’s state water ...

3. In Manjib, ‘we have organised our own life with great hope’

   we were liberating our city. They also provided aid to people such as water, food, shelter, medicine. ...

4. Loopholes in Queensland’s proposed law will allow ongoing clearing

   water quality. Landowners have been able to lock in those exemptions — protecting them from changes to ...

5. When the student press shook established power

   of Death” — signalled the high-water-mark of student publishing dissent. Some issues were slower to ...

6. Australia is a global top-ten deforester and Queensland is leading the way

   improve the quality of waters running onto the Great Barrier Reef are estimated at $5–10 billion over 10 ... years. Nearly 40% of the land cleared in Queensland is in reef catchments, which will reverse any water ...

7. Safe access zones, free speech and abortion rights

   distressing images and attempting to hand unwanted literature to people, to sprinkling holy water on people ...

8. Climate change is a ticking time bomb

   half a billion people are already dealing with climate-change driven food and water crises. Canadian ... wrecking our land, air and water can be entrusted with such important decisions. We cannot do this under ... nature and imposing a logic of domination upon nature, transforming everything into commodities: water ...

9. Mexico: Neoliberal attacks ignite gas war

   municipal water companies. At the time the legislation was passed, the government said privatisation would ... lead to cheaper prices, and cleaner water. Puebla was one of the first states to privatise its water ... supply. Today, it has the most expensive water of any major city in Mexico. Its prices are about 10 times ...

10. Crucial reading for grasping the Indigenous economy

    canals to hold and move water. They traded valuable products like axe-heads, smoked eels and possum-skin ...

11. Is banning live exports enough?

    smothered in faeces, unable to lie down to rest, or even reach food or water. It shows what the live export ...

12. United States: Huge protests against Trump tearing children from parents

    kidnappings, the poisoning of water, the policy of scorched earth – in other words, the killing of the people, ...

13. #SOSManus: Let’s build the pressure to bring them here

    continue – demanding that the government restore food and water and evacuate the men to safety. Teachers ... November 9, calling on the government to ensure food and water access to the men, to take up New Zealand’s ...

14. United States: Standing Rock still needs support

    Standing Rock salutes the Water Protectors, whose courageous resistance has forced the Obama administration ... are inseparable from Indigenous rights. An Injury to One is an Injury to All! Mni Wiconi: Water is ...

15. Statoil to drill for oil in Great Australian Bight

    environmental concerns over the project, including worries over potential oil spills in the rough waters of the ... conditions on the planet” and “extreme deep-water drilling under such conditions is too risky”. “Any spill ...

16. Militarising the police is no solution

    Andrews has also been talking up his party’s “hard-line” stance, including watering down the presumption ...

17. Protests mount after Trump’s fake order on immigrant child separations

    back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere’.” These remarks by Waters, who ...

18. Damning interim report finds fracking is toxic, unsustainable

    a choice between healthy food production or gas. It is a choice between the long-term safety of the water ... Industry expressing some concern about co-existence. The use of and contamination of water was another ... major concern for submitters. Apart from the large volumes of water the industry uses, the safe disposal ...

19. How the Illawarra has (so far) stopped CSG

    has so far put a stop to the local CSG project, which threatens the drinking water for greater Sydney. ... Apex Energy had consent to drill 15 CSG wells in and around Sydney's drinking water catchment (a ... development in drinking water catchments. SCSGI's demands have been successful in drawing people into the ...

20. Howard uses UN report to push nuke 'solution'

    radio's AM program on February 3, federal minister for environment and water resources Malcolm Turnbull ... never seem to warrant a mention in Howard's glowing accounts of nuclear power. The massive water ... power plants use up to 80% more water than conventional power stations. In the driest inhabited ...

21. Can the salt supertanker be turned around?

    roads have been affected; within decades, salt levels in drinking water in several regions may exceed ... the desirable limits established by the World Health Organisation, and in some regions water may ... riverine systems are largely degraded; and in South Australia, at least 20% of surface water resources are ...

22. Chile: Support for Mapuche political prisoners grows

    evening commuters. Police used water cannon to break up the demonstrators. Protests were also held in ...

23. Cuba unveils plan to confront climate change

    use to drought and rising sea water; and new farming methods. Specific projects include crop ... water availability; and reforestation to protect soil and water sources. Cuba’s preparations for meeting ...

24. An astute insight into the musical-industrial complex

    labelled Randall “evil”. Others have since joined the protest, including Elvis Costello, Roger Waters, Gil ...

25. 70 years on, Palestinians are still resisting Israeli crimes

    the borders, imports and exports, water supply, electricity supply, people's movements, the army ...

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