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Environmental activist takes on Australian mining company

Susan Price — 2023-08-10T14:16:06Z

“A campaign in solidarity with Aissat and the people of Tala Hamza, Amizour and Béjaia is calling for the legal proceedings against him to be dropped and for an end to repression and intimidation and to respect freedom of expression.”

- IV583 - August 2023 / Ecology and the Environment, Australia, Algeria

Good riddance to Morrison, time to fight Labor

Tom Bramble — 2022-05-24T07:19:53Z

“Nor can we expect to see Labor take serious action to deal with climate change. Labor is committed to the fossil fuel industries and its carbon emissions targets are a joke.”

- IV568 - May 2022 / Australia

“Global Britain ”, “AUKUS”, etc. Anglosphere supremacism and the promised wars in the China Sea

Thierry Labica — 2022-03-17T08:14:50Z

“But in this region taken as a whole, new and old fears and recriminations combine with the challenges represented by the gigantic growth of trade with China.”

- IV566 - March 2022 / United States (USA), Britain, Australia, China

Novak Djokovic is no Spartacus

Dave Kellaway — 2022-01-10T13:53:29Z

“Whatever happens we stand in solidarity with the migrants unfairly repressed by the Australian government and in favour of a zero tolerance policy on vaccination for players in such events.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Australia, Covid-19 Pandemic

Unions need to crush the anti-vax movement

Louise O'Shea — 2021-09-26T07:08:39Z

“It is positive that other unions, particularly health workers, have condemned the protests and that there has been widespread derision towards participants.”

- IV560 - September 2021 / Australia, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Covid-19 Pandemic

Corporate giants censor the internet and control the news

Daniel Taylor — 2021-03-01T15:48:39Z

“Radicals are going to have to take seriously the challenges of organising to disseminate and discuss information using diverse technological platforms.”

- IV554 - March 2021 / Australia

Megafires in Australia: a climate tipping point, live

Daniel Tanuro — 2020-01-28T05:59:05Z

The expression â€˜tipping point' refers to the point when a system passes from one system of equilibrium to another, the point where it is no longer possible to prevent accumulated quantitative changes from causing a qualitative change. It is used in many different fields, from population studies to climate change, as well as social sciences.

- IV540 - January 2020 / Ecology and the Environment, Australia, Climate

Without a Treaty, Australia Day Will Always Be Invasion Day

Lidia Thorpe — 2020-01-27T07:17:24Z

For Indigenous Australians, Australia Day commemorates nothing but the invasion of their territories. While the Change the Date campaign gathers momentum, only a Treaty can begin to address the trauma and bloodshed of British settlement.

- IV540 - January 2020 / Australia

Megafires in Australia: in the image of capitalist excess

NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2020-01-17T08:31:08Z

As of 3 January, the forest “mega-fires” ravaged 60,000 kmÂ², the equivalent of twice the size of Belgium. 500 million animals were charred in the disaster, say scientists at the University of Sydney. New Zealand's glaciers are covered in soot. Temperature records have been broken, January and February could exceed 50Â°C in the shade. Nothing is under control. These fires are out of the ordinary.

- IV540 - January 2020 / Ecology and the Environment, Australia

Australia's dark age of climate catastrophe

James Plested — 2020-01-10T05:13:36Z

It is impossible to find words appropriate to the immensity and horror of Australia's bushfire catastrophe. Day in day out for months on end we've been bombarded with harrowing images and accounts of death and destruction – of roaring walls of flame over 100 metres high; of deadly “fire tornadoes” powerful enough to flip fire trucks; of bushfires creating their own super-cell thunderstorms with lightning strikes sparking new blazes ahead of existing fronts; of giant plumes of smoke turning day into eerie, pitch-dark night; of thousands forced to huddle on beaches and cower on boats as ash and embers rain down on them and their communities burn before their eyes; of convoys of evacuees stuck on roads blocked by flames, while others await evacuation by sea; of whole towns burnt to ashes by fires so intense that no fire fighting force on Earth could stop them.

- IV540 - January 2020 / Ecology and the Environment, Australia, Climate