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1. Climate extremes — time to phase out coal and gas

   coastal town of Dunalley. Had the town been further from the refuge of the water, it's likely there ... waters moved south. Thankfully the floods and fires have resulted in few deaths, unlike the 2009 Black ...

2. ‘Jerrys in jeopardy’: community steps up fight against king coal

   Hunter Valley Water Users Group, which has about 300 members. He said that the “gateway” process created ... rapid coalmining expansion on our air quality, water resources and the future of our sustainable local ...

3. Coalition unveils new plans to persecute refugees

   would entail a “navy blockade” in international waters — which would be illegal under international ... reach Australian territorial waters, where they could ostensibly apply for protection. But the Coalition ...

4. Community pressure makes CSG an election issue

   to our water, our health and our land. Stop CSG Sydney was formed in St Peters when it became known ... has run petitions and written submissions on the sustainable use of our land and water; and created ...

5. 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 ...

6. Lock the gate on Darren Lockyer's spin

   megalitres of water and millions of tonnes of salt are produced. You explain that you agreed to help ... water; show me the state forests where there are no landowners to slow development; show me Gladstone, ...

7. Traditional owners accost oil company offices

   food, water and culture. The firm then agreed to a meeting only after the traditional owners said they ... groundwater sources that Aboriginal communities need for fresh water. “We don’t trust mining companies,” ...

8. Detroit bankruptcy takes aim at pensions

   29-and-a-half years in the Water Department. “I could have worked someplace else and made more money,” he said, ... improve city services—which often, in the world he comes from, is code for privatization. Water, garbage ...

9. Refugees: How Australia makes Nauru do its bidding

   Desalination is necessary because the island has almost no fresh water supply. Its arid landscape and lack of ... imported fresh water, foodstuffs and almost everything else. Yet its unemployment rate tops 90%, again due ...

10. Israel razes Bedouin village

    Intifada. “They brought tear gas and water cannons, but didn't use them. There was a handful of Israeli ... acknowledge the villages and denied basic services such as water, electricity, roads, schools and waste ...

11. Ecuador to leave oil in ground

    Citizens’ Assembly in 2007 and adopted in 2008 — guarantees the right to clean water, and grants enforceable ... legal rights to the environment. Widespread distrust of Correa’s mining and water policies remains among ...

12. United States: Leaked oil remains despite BP and government spin

    Obama even swam in gulf waters with his family to “prove” the safety of the area, ABC Online said on ... own analysis showing up to 79% of the oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico remained in the water ...

13. Barangaroo development plans opposed

    Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water declared parts of Barangaroo and Hickson Road ... the water’s edge. Behind all the spin around environmental sustainability claims, there is a shocking ...

14. Germany: Two party system unraveling

    a peaceful demonstration, using batons, capsicum spray and water cannons. A 66 year-old pensioner, Dietrich ... Wagner, was almost certainly permanently blinded when police hit him in the face with a water cannon. ...

15. EITI: A transparently inadequate initiative

    gallons of water a month and dumps toxic waste into the Ajkwa river, eliminating all plant life along its ... banks and polluting drinking water. Yet the company can claim on its website: “Rio Tinto has expressly ...

16. Gillard attacks workers’ safety

    other states up to the standard in NSW. But the harmonisation process will water down OH&S to meet ... 2010 858 OH&S National Day of Action, Canberra, May. The harmonisation process will water down ...

17. Haiti election: exclusion in a time of cholera

    address the country's failing water system. In 2000, a $54m loan from the Inter-American Development ... Bank (IDB) should have given the Haitian government means to rehabilitate its urban and rural water ...

18. Bring troops home from Afghanistan to help with Qld flood crisis

    construction of the Wivenhoe Dam to safeguard Brisbane from future flood waters. That dam has never been at ... tides would spell disaster. At the moment the rain has stopped but the water is making its way south and ...

19. Australia's role in Japan’s nuclear fiasco

    in 1999, two people died and hundreds were irradiated. In 2001, a water pipe at Hamaoka-1 exploded, ... releasing radioactive steam into the containment building. In 2002, 16 workers were irradiated after a water ...

20. Refugee uprising caused by inhumane system

    deep water. I also became very wary of how PM Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott would ... water. Because of these experiences I endured in detention, I understand why people would protest or try ...

21. Australia’s deadly refugee system

    thousand that reach Australian waters, many thousands more endure horrific conditions in so-called transit ... odds and reach Australian waters, the federal government uses other tactics to deny their rights as ...

22. Farewell Pete Gray, 1980-2011

    onto the grave. A vessel of water from the ocean was passed around for people to reflect upon; the ... water would later be returned to the ocean, a metaphor for Pete’s own dissolution back into the greater ...

23. Japan: Huge protest against nuclear power

    whether or not to support nuclear power, water privatisation, water tariffs and the granting of immunity ...

24. ALP-Greens coalition slash jobs, schools

    100 police jobs. The 5% cap on water price rises was increased to 10%, meaning price rises of up to ... water and sewerage to council control. Reduce parliamentary and top-bureaucrat perks, privileges, ...

25. John Pilger: Australia invaded, not 'settled'

    shouldn’t be watered down. We wouldn’t expect Jewish people to accept a watered-down version of the ...

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