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1. Turnbull’s Sri Lanka visit ‘reprehensible’

   the Manus Island detention camp deteriorates – food, water, medicine and power supplies have been cut ...

2. Death of a dairy cooperative — Part 1

   were already angry at the $1 a litre milk deal with Coles that valued their product cheaper than water ...

3. Invasion Day: the tide is turning

   housing and water and power?” Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protesting against ...

4. African peasants highlight struggles at global meeting

   land, mineral resources, seeds and water. These resources are increasingly being privatised due to the ... various forms of protest to access land, water and development resources. “We do various social actions ...

5. Honduran communities resist mining project

   banks of the Lara River, which feeds into the main water supply for the capital of Azacualpa, Santa ...

6. ‘Govt is giving oil and gas away for free’, tax activists say

   production in Commonwealth waters and the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) is not forecast to collect any ...

7. Turkey jails artist for painting of Kurdish village destruction

   Rights. Turkish forces have also prevented Kurds from accessing food, water and medical care. They have ...

8. Puerto Rico devastation badly worsened by US treatment — before and after the hurricanes

   a direct hit by Maria, both storms greatly strengthened by warmer ocean water caused by climate change. The ... response of Washington to bring desperately needed fuel, water, food and medicine to its Caribbean colony. ... ability to provide safe drinking water, maintain roads and operate public transportation”. For her part, ...

9. West Papuans call on Australia to stop supporting occupation

   trying to water down human rights resolutions — as it did last month regarding the violence unfolding in ...

10. Pride, protest and pomp: 40 years of Mardi Gras

    and equality — and at exactly the same moment, our government cut off food, water, medical supplies ...

11. Community takes on New Hope Coal in Land Court

    water and the destruction of prime agricultural land. "We've got grass, we've got cattle, ... but without water coming out of the ground we can't provide the cattle with water,” he said. ...

12. Turkey: Huge march to break siege as regime escalates attacks

    police fired gas canisters, plastic bullets and water at people seeking to break the siege. Armoured ... vehicles, tanks and water cannons were reported to be stationed on all streets. Skirmishes broke between ... demonstrators and state forces in the Yenisehir neighbourhood after state forces used gas bombs and water on ...

13. Northern Australia mangrove dieback 'unprecedented'

    last year.” He said a deadly lack of fresh water and increased water and atmospheric temperatures ... and make the water dirtier and that will kill seagrass and coral. If it involves seagrass then the ...

14. West Papuan refugees flee to Australia

    authorities for taking part in a ceremonial handover of sacred water and ashes from Australian Aboriginal ... permission for the Australian participants to enter Indonesian waters and threatened to arrest or respond ... the sacred water and ashes. Two others were being hunted by police. Other organisers of the event say ...

15. Mothers attempt suicide as conditions deteriorate on Christmas Island

    babies are given just ice and water.” The suicide attempts came after a meeting between detainees and ... immigration officers late yesterday. Angry women desperately showed the immigration officers a glass of water ... , showing how dirty the water they were expected to drink was. At the meeting, Immigration officers told the ...

16. No bribes will be enough if CSG poisons the land

    failure in the Pilliga, with at least 20 toxic coal seam gas waste water pollution incidents, including ... Artesian Basin, the only major water source for almost a quarter of the Australian continent. The hardy ... deserve better than a government playing Russian roulette with their water supply and their very ...

17. ‘Something is badly amiss when Qld bushies embrace �鶹��ý Weekly’

    our food and water security is severely endangered. Farmers are mobilising against the incursions of ... a CSG drilling site in Sydney’s main water catchment. “This approval advances a project that risks the ... drinking water of 4.3 million people in NSW,” she said. The Australian seemed horrified to report on ...

18. Cracks appear in Illawarra CSG project

    calling for a ban on CSG mining in drinking water catchments. Stop CSG Illawarra spearheaded a petition ... Council unanimously voted to urge the NSW government to ban CSG in the region’s water catchments. Local ... satisfied our land and water is safe.” Australia June 21, 2012 927 Stop CSG Illawarra protest on Austinmer ...

19. Gillard signs deal with Nauru to dump refugees

    The area has no water supply or waste water treatment capacity. The other camp, “Statehouse”, is being ... waters by August 28. Most were being held on Christmas Island and in Darwin. Some had launched hunger ...

20. CSG company applies to extend drilling approval in the Illawarra

    first bore hole” for 16 wells spanning two drinking water catchments (Woronora and Nepean). This is ... water catchment is unsuitable for CSG exploration and production. Allowing this development to go ahead ... that mining cannot occur… in any water catchment area, and will ensure that mining leases and mining ...

21. In wake of Sandy, Venezuela sends aid to Haiti, Cuba

    food items and water, as well as machinery to help remove debris. The hurricane first struck the ... foreign governments; Venezuela has already sent a boat containing 240 tons of food and water which will ... will send a plane on Monday with several tonnes of food and water to help the population.” Lamothe also ...

22. Billion-dollar liars: Mining industry ads exposed

    precious water catchment areas and prime food producing regions. These ads are often more targeted in their ... campaign leads with the question, “Couldn't CSG threaten our water supplies?”. “No. Just the ... groundwater,” says Stop CSG Illawarra, “the ad goes on to claim as fact that CSG is not a threat to water.” They ...

23. Worker-owner sustainable industry one step closer

    Cooperative will install their first solar hot water unit in Melbourne on April 15. A fully equipped ... projects, such as providing low-income earners with solar hot water units. Demand for the project is being ... The Eureka’s Future solar hot water unit factory will be located in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, in the ...

24. United States: Fracking waste too toxic for toxic waste dump

    formaldehyde, which are subsequently found in local air and water supplies. One 2011 study linked 25% of the ... Geological Survey identified toxic chemicals found in local water supplies in Wyoming linked to nearby ... mandated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The natural gas industry has also played an active role in ...

25. United States: Fracking waste too toxic for toxic waste dump

    formaldehyde, which are subsequently found in local air and water supplies. One 2011 study linked 25% of the ... Geological Survey identified toxic chemicals found in local water supplies in Wyoming linked to nearby ... mandated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The natural gas industry has also played an active role in ...

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