Australia’s Aborigines still being deceived out of their land – but they are fighting back
the main advocacy that we’re focusing on of course is still land rights. … Aboriginal 
people feel that they are still being deceived in terms of land.
Q&A: Aboriginal rights then and now SBS World News Q&A between Michael and SBS Online Producer Chiara Pazzano 28 JUN 2012, 40 years on, the last surviving founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy says Indigenous Australians are still being deceived over their land.
Michael Anderson is the leader of the Euahlayi people of northern New South Wales and the last surviving of the four founders of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.
Since that historic moment in 1972, he’s been a high-profile fighter for Aboriginal rights, but in a new interview with SBS for NAIDOC Week, he says while much has changed, Indigenous Australians are still
being deceived over their land……
Question: What are the main things that the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is advocating for now? Continue reading
“Stronger Futures” – discriminatory laws condemned by Aborigines and human rights groups
“We want an end to the intervention, we want to have control back over our lives, we want control back over our land and our communities.
Stronger Futures laws condemned after passing Senate ABC Radio Australia 29 June 2012 Indigenous and human rights groups have condemned the Senate’s rushed passing of new laws extending the intervention in remote Northern Territory areas.
It has been nearly five years since John Howard brought in the original policy.
Today’s passing of the Stronger Futures laws mean the current measures
will mostly continue for another 10 years. Continue reading
New wind farm near Barossa Valley would power 68,000 homes
Wind farm mooted near Barossa http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-29/wind-farm-mooted-near-barossa/4100638 June 29, 2012 Pacific Hydro has submitted an application to the Development Assessment Commission for a 42-turbine wind farm on the edge of the Barossa Valley.
The Keyneton wind farm would be north-west of Cambrai, with turbines running along about 15 kilometres of the eastern Mount Lofty Ranges. The company initially proposed 57 turbines for the area but reduced the number in response to community concerns about the visual amenity and potential noise. The nearest house to the wind farm would be about 1.7 kilometres away, with most homes between three and five kilometres from the project.
The wind farm would power about 68,000 homes a year. Pacific Hydro already runs the Clements Gap wind farm, south of Port Pirie, and is proposing another near Georgetown in the mid-north.
Australian government looks to the future with its carbon policy
more than 50 jurisdictions around the world, with a combined population of 850 million, will have a carbon price by next year.
Far from disappearing from the face of the earth, Whyalla’s OneSteel is investing $200m in a port upgrade.
If Australia were to falter and defer carbon pricing, our industries would be stuck with old technologies in a global marketplace in which production processes are moving to lower-carbon energy sources.
Pricing carbon is essential to our nation’s future, BY: CRAIG EMERSON The Australian June 30, 2012 IF you believe the prophecies of carbon pricing opponents, the world as we know it comes to an end tomorrow. The sky will fall in, Whyalla and Gladstone will be wiped off the map, the coalmining industry will be annihilated and price rises will be unimaginable.
Now the truth: the carbon price will increase the general price level by 70c in every $100, households will experience average cost-of-living increases of $9.90 a week and average compensation will be $10.10 a week. Treasury estimates that with the carbon price in place 1.6 million new jobs will be created to 2020. Continue reading
Liberal government would first abolish carbon tax, second take action on carbon contracts
Abbott to act on carbon contracts BY: SID MAHER The Australian June 30, TONY 
Abbott has declared the Coalition will seek to renegotiate contracts signed under the carbon pricing regime, which would be abolished in the first act of a Coalition government.
Speaking after the government yesterday announced it had signed multi-million-dollar, two-year deals with the Alcoa aluminium smelter and the Energy Brix briquette manufacturer, the Opposition Leader said the Coalition would honour contracts that could not be renegotiated…. subscription only
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abbott-to-act-on-carbon-contracts/story-fn59niix-1226412758501
Australian govt really getting Aborigines off their homelands – it’s all about assimilation
Q&A: Aboriginal rights then and now SBS World News Q&A between Michael and SBS Online Producer Chiara Pazzano 28 JUN 2012“……..What’s happening now with the Northern Territory Homelands policy after the Federal Government injected money to keep these communities living on their lands?
Michael Anderson Well, it’s nice in words but in practice it’s not possible because the government is screaming about the fact that we can’t put the infrastructure into those places, into those isolated communities, which is a lot of bunkem.
You don’t have to put telegraph poles and electricity poles out to community, they can put up solar farms and
these solar farms will generate all the power they need for those communities. You know they can get out there and all they need is to connect water tanks to their homes, they can drill down to bores that are on a lot of those homelands and they will supply water. They can also set up horticultural programs in those communities where they can become self-sufficient.
This relocating is all about assimilation, nothing more…..
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1663862/Q&A:-Aboriginal-rights-then-and-now
On July 1 Australia joins international effort to address global warming
[Tony Abbott has] claimed regions will disappear, Whyalla will collapse. The population in Whyalla’s increasing and 
there’s a lot of investment there. I just think a lot of the claims that have been made from Sunday will be able to be tested against reality and I think people will think, “Well, you know, can we really believe what Tony Abbott’s on about?”
VIDEO Combet joins Lateline http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3535240.htm 28 June 12,
“……….[The carbon tax is] meant to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in our economy over time because it’s important for Australia to play its part in international efforts to tackle climate change. We’re part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an advanced economy like ours has to play its fair part, we’re one of the top 20 greenhouse gas emitters internationally and we’re the highest per capita emitter amongst the developed economies. So, we have to play our role and the intention here is to put a price tag on pollution so that there’s an incentive to cut greenhouse gas emissions….
what we’re implementing of course is an emissions trading scheme. I know we’ve discussed this previously, but when it does migrate to a flexible price in 2015, the government of the day will be setting caps so we can achieve a targeted emissions reduction.
Essentially what that means is the number of permits to emit greenhouse gas will be limited and cut each year so that we can achieve a specific emissions reduction target by 2020. So it will be effective, but of course we’re part of the international community. Other countries are doing similar things and a tonne of greenhouse gas emissions cut overseas or in Australia is – it doesn’t matter whether it’s here or overseas, as long as there’s greenhouse gas emissions cut and that’s why linking carbon markets is important…… Continue reading
Australia’s Labor and Liberal parties unite to pass discriminatory law against Aborigines
Indigenous leader Dr Djiniyini Gondarra from East Arnhem Land and Rosalie Kunoth Monks from Central Australia have jointly declared a day of mourning for Aboriginal people following the passing of the laws.
Former Family Court chief justice Alastair Nicholson said the government’s use of special measures could fail a High Court challenge. He said Ms Macklin’s response was ‘entirely predictable’ and maintained the consultation process had been a ‘travesty’.
Day of mourning for cont NT intervention Big Pond News, June 29, 2012 Aboriginal leaders will hold a day of mourning after federal parliament passed legislation to continue the Northern Territory intervention for another 10 years.
Labor and the opposition teamed up to pass the controversial laws in the Senate in the early hours of Friday morning after a marathon debate, which started early Thursday evening.
The laws were amended to reduce the review period from seven to three years. Attempts by the Greens to heavily amend the laws, including cutting the sunset clause from 10 to five years, were defeated.
The Greens accused the government of sneaking the laws through in the shadow of the media storm over asylum seekers on the final day before parliament’s winter break. Continue reading
Senate approves Aboriginal intervention by 10 years BY: PATRICIA KARVELAS The Australian June 29, 2012 The government’s radical 10-year extension of the Northern Territory intervention has passed the Senate after a long overnight debate….. Most measures in the Stronger Futures legislation will be in place for 10 years Continue reading
Lynas Corporation will have to agree to returning its radioactive wastes to Australia, unless it finds a permanent solution
The Temporary Operating License will only be issued after Lynas fulfils two new conditions imposed
AELB: Lynas committed to returning radioactive waste to Australia The Malaysian Insider By
Lisa J. Ariffin June 28, DENGKIL, June 28 — Lynas is committed to return all potentially harmful waste from its rare earths plant here to Australia despite its government’s firm refusal to take it in, Malaysia’s radiation regulator said today.
The Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) told reporters today the Australian miner would have to send home all residue that could not be turned into commercial products or if a location for a permanent disposal facility (PDF) here could not be determined or approved.
“Lynas will have 10 months to come up with a permanent disposal facility plan for its radioactive residue upon receiving its temporary operating license (TOL),” said Dr Noor Hasnah Mohamed Khairullah who is special adviser to the AELB director-general.
“If they fail to find a location for the PDF, or if the plan is not approved, then Lynas has to return the residues back to Australia. Continue reading
Senator Christine Milne spells out the need for Australia’s action to reduce carbon emissions
The Climate Institute estimates the carbon tax could create up to 32,000 clean-energy jobs by 2030
the International Energy Agency has warned the world is on track for a six-degree increase in global temperatures.
“That’s planetary wipe-out,” the Tasmania senator said ahead of the carbon tax starting on July 1.
Carbon tax will create green jobs: Milne http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/carbon-tax-will-create-green-jobs-milne/story-fn3dxiwe-1226411123997 BY: JULIAN DRAPE June 28, 2012 The federal opposition argues Labor’s carbon tax will squeeze the life out of the economy but the Australian Greens insist pricing pollution will actually help create new industries and jobs.
GREENS leader Christine Milne says growth in the United States and Europe is being driven by the need to move away from oil to renewable energy and the carbon tax will ensure Australia isn’t left behind. The “zero-carbon economy” will provide “big opportunities”, she told AAP. Continue reading
Carbon tax essential for Australian superannuation funds’ $700 billion renewable energy investment
Greens attend energy forum, Wauchope Gazette, 27 Jun, 2012, THREE of the four Greens 
council candidates attended the Renewable Energy Forum, held at the Glasshouse recently. The event was organised by the Nature Conservation Council and Australian Conservation Foundation, and follows other informative climate change related events, such as the forum last year by Professor Ross Garnaut.
Lead Greens candidate, Mr Ian Oxenford said, the highlight of the evening was the ‘revelation’ from the keynote speaker, Nathan Fabian, representing the Investor Group on Climate Change, a consortia of Australia’s leading superannuation funds, that Australian based superannuation funds have $700 billion of renewable energy investments for Australia.
The future of these investments depends on a long term effective price on carbon. “Mr Fabian said that without certainty of carbon price, investors will have no choice but to direct these funds to offshore investments,” Mr Oxenford said.
“This should ring alarm bells to those praising the threats of the Federal Leader of the Opposition to scrap the ‘carbon tax’ (sic) if he is elected Prime Minister next year.”….. Continue reading
Aboriginal and solar firms join in outback solar projects
Indigenous firm eyes solar power http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/business/a/-/wa/14049902/indigenous-firm-eyes-solar-power/ Peter Williams, The West Australian June 27, 2012, A new indigenous-controlled energy company has plans to build solar power systems in regional areas as big as any existing projects in Australia.
Carey Power, a joint venture between indigenous-owned mining services provider Carey Mining and Perth solar energy specialist Next Power, is targeting mine camps as well as remote communities and local governments.
Next Power chief executive and Carey Power executive director Kieron D’Arcy said Carey Power planned to install systems of up to 10 megawatts, equal to the size of the nation’s biggest solar plant being built in the Mid West. Continue reading
BHP buys more Olympic Dam licences Jun 27 2012 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8490254 BHP Billiton has bought four exploration licences for areas in the Olympic Dam region in South Australia for $3 million.
BHP bought the licences, and five exploration licence applications, from mineral exploration company Copper Range, which had been reviewing its presence in the Olympic Dam region since the departure of a joint venture partner.
BHP is currently considering a massive expansion of its copper, gold and uranium mining operations at Olympic Dam.
Extreme anti carbon tax claims by Tony Abbott’s campaign could lead to legal trouble
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has set up a hotline for members of the public to make complaints about misleading carbon tax claims.
Special Minister of State Gary Gray plans to visit the South Australian city of Whyalla on Sunday – a community Mr Abbott said would be “wiped off the map” because of the carbon pricing scheme….
The Government says more than $300 million is available to councils, community groups and charities to help offset the costs of the carbon tax.
Warning issued over anti-carbon tax posters ABC News, By chief parliamentary correspondent Simon Cullen, June 27, 2012 Labor is warning small businesses against displaying the Coalition’s anti-carbon tax posters, saying they risk million-dollar fines if the information is found to be misleading.
The Coalition has sent the fliers to bakeries, butchers, dry cleaners and fruit shops just days before the carbon tax is due to take effect. Labor is warning businesses to be “very, very careful” about being part of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s campaign by displaying the posters in their shop fronts.
“Don’t allow him to drag you into his cynical scare campaign because the consequences of that are very serious,” Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury told Parliament. “If you do mislead your customers, then you could face fines of up to
$1.1 million.”……. Continue reading
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