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Toxic waste nightmare in Perth suburb
emergency canister. As a result, firefighters used millions of litres of water, instead of foam, to put out ... Bellevue Primary School, 500 metres away, where polluted water had pooled just outside the fence. The ...
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Close Woomera, Australia's concentration camp
doesn't talk. "He used to love cars, but after seeing the water cannon trucks pounding detainees with ... water, he is now afraid at the sound of a car. I have other friends whose 10- and 13-year-old daughters ...
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Ruddock abandons Nauru refugees
Australian territorial waters, and as such they became our responsibility as soon as Australian forces took ... seekers, including those intercepted in Australian territorial waters. Ruddock has a point that all ...
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Turning our backs on Labor
Australian blue-water shipping industry declined from 72 ships to 46. Many jobs were lost — nearly half. Yet ... leadership, the union movement is finished, dead in the water. There will be [those who say] that we should ...
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Horror conditions for refugees on Nauru exposed
collapse from heat exhaustion. When the refugees first arrived, Durham said, there were severe water and ... food shortages. Water is now imported from the Solomon Islands and food from Brisbane. At first, there ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Strike solid despite state repression
places like Chatsworth in Durban and in Cape Town, where residents have been fighting evictions and water ... water cannon and a woman SAMWU member was assaulted by police. That same day, police fired shots into ...
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UNITED STATES: Black farmers demand loans
'We're going to be very nice to you. Here's the bathroom. Here's the water fountain.' But ... we didn't come here to use the bathroom and the water fountain. The [farmers] came for their ...
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Government tests Labor with islands' excision
in Australian waters since December. There is a boat rumoured to be on its way, but the government ... to water, he will cave in and he will flash a green light, not to the interests of the Australian ...
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News Briefs
Carrum Downs water treatment plant. AMEC is a contractor employed to install seven new diesel generating ... sets at the plant, which is owned by Melbourne Water (a state government body). The picket is ...
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Mistreatment of asylum seekers continues
Australia's detention centres, in the form of Panadol and the advice to drink more water. Melbourne refugee ... inadequate fresh water (detainees are now dependent on rainwater), no medical attention is available to ...
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PALESTINE: PNA: US encouraging 'slaughter'
declared the area a disaster zone. "They have destroyed the roads, the water supplies, sewage, ... have endured a week of severe restrictions on their movement. Water supplies and electricity networks ...
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BOLIVIA: 'Gas war' protests intensify
councillor Juana Quispe. The anti-privatisation "water war" protests of 2000 kicked out Bechtel, ... the US corporation that had bought Cochabamba's water supply, and the February 2003 riots blocked ...
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Irati Wanti- 'The poison, leave it'
nuclear waste will damage wildlife, water and the spirit of the land. The Kungka Tjuta are very active in ... into the water." Administration of remote storage and long distance transportation of these wastes ...
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CANADA: Neoliberalism and SARS make Toronto sick
water inspection services contributed to e-coli contamination of the town's drinking water, has ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
was saving the Otways? The latest draft Otways plan says the Geelong and Warrnambool water catchments ... of our most precious resource — clean and reliable water, not greedy profits for a few. People ...
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Howard must go!
seekers had thrown children into the water in an attempt to force Australian sailors to rescue them and ... the water to the media. These pictures had been supplied to his office along with other pictures that ...
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EAST TIMOR: Solidarity activists condemn oil deal
territorial waters. That is what is happening now. While Indonesia occupied East Timor, everybody's ... territorial waters. Canberra pressured Jakarta into agreeing to setting up a Zone of Cooperation (ZOCA) which ...
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EPA: 'Emission Permission Authority'
resulting from these court cases were $217,000 against Emerald Peat for water pollution offences, $100,000 ... against Sydney Water for a licence breach and $50,000 against Bega Valley Shire Council for unlawful waste ...
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East Timor: Long queues for medical facilities
"impromptu" drains, trails of water seeping out from toilets and kitchens are ubiquitous. In fact, this is my ... consultations, syringes are "sterilised" in a glass of hot water and then reused. The desperate, ...
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Hindu fundamentalists knocked back
to enhance mass struggles outside parliament, rather than getting dragged into the murky waters of ... headache in negotiating the treacherous water of murky bourgeois parliamentary politics is not over ...
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IRAQ: No to 'smart' sanctions
million Iraqis in the last 10 years for want of medicine, food and clean water. However, the unspecified ... allowed — like water pumps for village wells and refrigerated trucks to transport milk — he made it clear ...
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Accord ends Ecuadoran Indian uprising
indigenous health, education and development agencies; resolve conflicts over land, water and other natural ... Salesian Polytechnic University. The government had previously cut off water and electricity to the site ...
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Labor government approves ADI development
atmospheric regeneration, cooling and water supply purification. The development will cause greater traffic ... congestion and air and water pollution. It would stretch existing health facilities as no new public ...
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TURKEY: 'Return to Life' brings death to prisoners
water hoses but they were not squirting water into the burning dormitory. Those who supposedly came for ...
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Asylum seekers become public enemy No. 1
that the Ratna Mujiam, carrying 130 asylum seekers, had hit short of the low-water mark and was ... about the huge military arsenal deployed in waters between Australia and Indonesia at an estimated cost ...