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Foreign workers to benefit from Australia’s mining boom
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is fighting for an equitable distribution of wealth amid the current mining boom. Gillard visits workers who are afffected by foreign labour scheme. (Photo: Gary...
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Conservationists blast Tasmanian wood exports to China
The Tasmanian Government has given Forestry Tasmania the trial green light to export blackwood logs to China with high hopes of potentially creating a multimillion wood industry– ignoring earlier...
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Queensland slams UNESCO, defends gas on Great Barrier Reef
UNESCO has released its damning environmental report on the Great Barrier Reef, but the Queensland State Government hit back saying the report poses an obstacle to the multi-billion dollar seam gas...
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Australia: WA ‘sells soul’ to gas firm for tourism boost
Western Australia (WA) is set to defy all opposition to chase its dream to turn Broome into a key tourist destination - including a court’s injunction order to stop gas giant, Woodside Petroleum, from...
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Australian mining magnate increases stake in Fairfax Media
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart grabbed the largest stake at Fairfax Media with additional 42 million shares costing $25 million which she bought in just one transaction today. This increased her total...
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Rinehart’s Fairfax: A voice for the Australian mining industry?
Following Gina Rinehart’s massive share buy last week, Fairfax announced its long-overdue plan to go digital via paid subscription — scrapping outdated print versions of Australia’s major broadsheets,...
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Australia: Lower House passes bill on offshore asylum processing
Human smuggling is unstoppable. Two incidents of capsized vessels near the Christmas Island were reported this week. Rescue operations have been dispatched to look for survivors. Risky arrivals of boat...
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Australia: No deal on asylum seekers
PM Julia Gillard's benchmark policy scrapped by High Court and Senate (Photo: Kym Smith) The Senate upheld a High Court’s decision to scrap an extra-territorial solution to people smuggled by boat...
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Australia warms to carbon tax
Right wing politicians continue to employ scaremongering tactics to thwart public support for the carbon tax, which took effect on July 1. The public has also feared the new tax would hurt households....
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Aussie mining tycoons eye Singapore property investment
Australian mining billionnaires have had enough when it comes to exorbitant Government taxes. Now, they are looking for investment elsewhere. Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is reportedly bought two condo...
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Mining boom over, Rio Tinto Australia cuts jobs
Barely two weeks after Deliotte Access Economics predicted the end of the mining boom by 2014 or so, Rio Tinto announced its massive job cuts in its Sydney and Melbourne offices Tuesday. Sky News...
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Australia: Coal to power the economy
Following economists’ recent prediction of the impending end of mining boom cycle, the Federal Government is scrambling to find an alternative solution to power the Australian economy and is now...
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Australia: Tasmanian Devil faces logger, miner in the Tarkine
What’s the fuss about Tarkine? Here, some of the tallest and oldest trees in the world are being logged for woodchips — irreplaceable virgin forests converted into toilet paper. – The Green Left...
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Australian experts to boat people: Go back to Asia
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard beamed when she met the Press in Canberra looking as if she is out of the asylum conundrum. The Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers, which her Government appointed...
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UN raises concern over Australia’s new asylum law
Following Australian Parliament’s passage of a bill to process asylum seekers offshore, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) held a press briefing in Geneva saying...
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Australia: Brown, Sea Shepherd mark Fathers’ Day with ‘No-Gas’
Former Senator Bob Brown will be the star celebrity on Fathers’ Day when he gathers a throng of supporters to see the Sea Shepherd’s Steve Irwin ship docked onto the Circular Quay in Sydney, Sept 2....
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EU-funded giant trawler blocked from ‘plundering’ Australian waters
MV Margiris, a giant fishing vessel measuring 146-metre long, has been banned from its grand mission to fish 18,000 tonnes of pelagic fish off Australian waters. Super trawler Abel Tasman could suck...
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Australia: Gay marriage debate riddled with fear
Legalising same sex marriage faces a big hurdle in Parliament taking into consideration the big divide in Australian society at the crossroad of conservatism and change. More than 3,000 advoccates of...
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Aussie Greens push for Tarkine’s enlistment as World Heritage Site
The Wilderness Society, Tarkine National Coalition, and GetUp! have joined forces in the campaign to protest the “out-of-control” mining ventures in the Tarkine in Tasmania and push for its enlistment...
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Australia: Shocking live animals and Melbourne Cup
Shocking mails were dropped into the Green Journo’s mailbox. One subject warns: “You’re not going to like what you see.” But that is not the only mail with a word of caution, but a few more. Anti-live...
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