Australian organisations unite to lead new climate, energy, campaign
The Transition Decade: New Campaign Aims to Reshape Australia’s Climate Politics, T10 Starts with Community-Wide Engagement, SolveClimate.com, by Leigh Ewbank – Mar 7th, 2010, In Australia, several environmental groups have banded together to encourage a new approach to climate action. Continue reading
Australia’s shame – the treatment of atomic test veterans
They were given little protection against the radiation and were simply told to turn their backs on the explosions
Treatment of atom bomb veterans a ‘national disgrace’, Sydney Morning Herald JENNIE CURTIN, February 28, 2010 ONE of Australia’s most respected military figures has joined veterans’ groups in calling for war benefits to be paid to Australian servicemen who were exposed to British atom bomb tests in the 1950s. Continue reading
Foreign uranium companies, including Australian, endanger Niger’s water
water in the region had 10 times the level of radioactivity considered safe.
Niger’s uranium coup, boilingspot: 7 March 2010 On February 18, Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja was overthrown in a military coup. A military junta calling itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, headed by Major Salou Djibo, took power Tony Iltis | Green Left Online | 6 March 2010 “……the junta is unlikely to confront the causes of Niger’s extreme poverty: Western-imposed neoliberal austerity and the environmentally and socially destructive plunder of natural resources, particularly uranium……. Continue reading
Muckaty nuclear waste dump plan threatens groundwater
Muckaty station sits above an ancient aquifer which is used by both the aborigines for drinking water and white station owners to water their cattle. It also experiences large intermittent rainfalls during the year.
A heresy is occurring in Australia, anthropologyworks by Helen Caldicott, 8 March 2010, “….the current abuse and desecration of several aboriginal tribes inhabiting their land in the Northern Territory. This land called Muckaty station is conveniently located adjacent to the railway line, constructed recently by Dick Cheney’s former company Halliburton, which bisects Australia connecting Darwin, a port in the north, to Adelaide a port in the south. Continue reading
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