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1. Refugee activists target National Gallery of Victoria

   action, the Artists’ Committee placed red dye into the water of the gallery’s famous moat and water wall. ... They assured the public the dye used is specially formulated for pools and water features and filters ...

2. Chevron abandons drilling plans in Great Australian Bight

   Bight’s pristine waters are vital breeding and feeding grounds for many marine mammals, including 36 ... trying to turn into an oil field. It's very deep water, it's very rough water, it's ...

3. 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 ...

4. Gamilaraay people fight for their songlines, country in epic anti-CSG fight

   fight is about totems — “our water, the environment and the land itself”. Gamilaraay, one of four ... 850 trucks per day. That’s a massive amount of salt. Where are they going to put it? And the water ... Protecting water “Our native title boundaries are bound by four rivers: the Mooki in the south; the Macintyre ...

5. Liberals prepare sale of ACTEW

   is proposing the sale of the ACT's electricity and water provider, ACTEW. Carnell claims the ... a 50-year franchise on water and sewerage. After the disasters of privatised water, sewerage and power ...

6. Unions 'can go forward'

   Waters. Mundey argued that unions today "need to reach out now more than ever. But in the face of the ...

7. Joke of the week

   When we have a half glass of water, is it half empty or half full? Down the ages it was answered thus: ...

8. Global warming and Australia's 'Big Dry'

   are concluding it's best to sell the next-to-meaningless water rights, accept a government exit ... air can hold more water vapour. As global temperatures have risen, one result is that the tropical ... the Indian Ocean Dipole are represented by areas of warm and cool water on opposite sides of the ...

9. Detention policy costs another life

   government's policy of detaining foreigners caught fishing in Australian waters. Muhammed Heri was the captain ... in Australian waters. According to Asylum Seeker Resource Centre oordinator Pamela Curr, there are 90 ...

10. SOUTH AFRICA: Protesters released on bail

    The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC) will continue to demand free water and electricity, ... SECC will continue to organise marches, boycotts and will reconnect the poor people's water and ...

11. Protest against corporate trickery

    to Australian waters. The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) held a 200-strong community picket at ... Australian waters again. The federal government was complicit in this deceit as it provided the renamed ship ...

12. On the box

    31, Monday March 25, 9pm. Visit <http://www.channel31.org.au>. Troubled Waters — In Broome, ... Indonesian fishermen are routinely incarcerated for their "invasion" of Australian waters and are ...

13. Attack at Woomera

    withdrew a tank housing a water cannon from the Woomera detention centre. Newnam was one of more than 200 ... responded with banners of their own, police swarmed into the detention centre using water cannons and tear ...

14. India:'We may drown, but we will not move'

    By Sean Healy Scores of Indian villagers are threatening to drown themselves in the rising waters ... wave of protest. But the looming monsoon threatens finally to drown their villages; water levels are ... already rising. By the evening of August 10, the waters in the village of Dhomkhedi had reached the house ...

15. Ireland: a socialist in parliament

    addicts. The Socialist Party was also heavily involved in the campaign against water charges. I was the ... chair of the Dublin Federation of Anti-Water Charge Campaigners. Question: Were water charges a major ... 1994. Just before the water charges were introduced, the government had granted an amnesty to super-rich ...

16. IRAQ: Basic services below pre-invasion levels

    water and sewerage sectors has fallen below pre-invasion levels even though $16 billion of US taxpayer ... numbers of Iraqis with drinkable water and sewage service. Only the hours of power available to Iraqis ... electricity erratic at best, clean drinking water also has become rare" in Iraq's cities, AP ...

17. UNITED STATES: Dead marine's family condemns oil war

    Waters-Bey. In his working-class Baltimore neighbourhood, there is anger, pain and sorrow. His four sisters ... US socialist newspaper. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun, Michelle Waters, Kendall's ... we're out of a brother. Bush is not out of a brother. We are." Nakia Waters told the newspaper, ...

18. East Gippsland fights mineral sands mine

    mine requires about the same amount of water as used by the 29,000 households supplied by the Mitchell ... River. This water is not available locally. It is planned to be piped from the Sale aquifer, but that ... aquifer is fully committed and can only be released by purchasing existing water rights. There will be an ...

19. Brazil: 'Mountain tsunami' a disaster waiting to happen

    metres of iron-ore tailings, reddish mud and water slurry. A “mountain tsunami” is how firefighters in ... water slurry. The miner's union initially reported that 15-16 people had been killed and 45 people ... communities, or some 250,000 people, are without potable water. Sanmarco initially insisted that the slurry was ...

20. On the box

    On the box Water, The Drop Of Life — Explores regions which have accelerated their water ... conservation efforts and communities using new technologies to make better use of the available water. SBS, ...

21. Ok Tedi pollution slammed

    International Water Tribunal (IWT). The PNG government was criticised for encouraging the mining giant's ... disputes over fresh water resources, found that the mine's waste disposal practices were responsible ... results in the discharge of large quantities of toxic tailings and waste water and the dumping of tonnes ...

22. Actors portray refugee tragedy

    Water, which is based on the on the firsthand experiences of those who survived the sinking of SIEV X. ...

23. Save our Sisters

    residents and source of water for domestic and agricultural/horticultural use, is about to be logged for ... indicated that road construction and harvesting activities will reduce the water quantity available for use ... Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment to issue an environmental protection notice, but both ...

24. Duck rescuers needed

    hunting season. A shooter stands in the frigid water dressed in camouflage. A flock of black ducks ...

25. The 'Tampa Affair': 2 years on

    way to Australia. When the Tampa attempted to enter Australian waters in order to drop off the asylum ...

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