The Queensland government has charged five former executives of Linc Energy with breaching environmental law over the operation of its underground coal gasification (UCG) site in Chinchilla from 2007 to 2013. They face up to five years in prison if found guilty.
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Close to 100 students and youth were arrested on Parliament Hill on October 24 for their participation in what organisers described as 鈥渢he largest act of youth-led climate civil disobedience in Canadian history.鈥
Protesters targeted the Kinder Morgan pipeline, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will rule to accept or reject this year.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte鈥檚 statement declaring his intentions to 鈥渟eparate鈥 from the United States in both military and economic relations should be welcomed, but it鈥檚 easier said than done. Hence the president鈥檚 constant 鈥渂acktracking鈥 on his statements.
Given the president鈥檚 inconsistency, the question is posed: What does it mean to be an anti-imperialist government today? And is lining up with China (and to a lesser-extent Russia) an anti-imperialist positioning?
Marking a grim milestone, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) that 2016 is the deadliest year ever for migrants trying to reach Europe.
The agency said on October 26 that at least 3800 migrants 鈥 many of them fleeing war in their home countries 鈥 have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year. This is despite a in attempted crossings compared to last year.
The Republican candidate in the November 8 presidential race is lining up his excuses for why he鈥檚 going to lose: the media is against him, Democrats are faking ballots from undocumented immigrants and dead people and on and on.
Ink In Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer
Sylvia Martin
University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016
328 pages
In 1939, a young Australian woman grabbed the international headlines when she threw red paint onto the doorsteps of 10 Downing Street, whilst distributing leaflets hidden in copies of the Ladies Home Journal.
The action by Aileen Palmer was to protest the blood that then-British prime minister Neville Chamberlain had on his hands for selling out Spain and Czechoslovakia to European fascism.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of an assault to recapture Mosul, the most important Iraqi city held by ISIS, on October 16.
The assault is spearheaded by the Iraqi army and the peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq. It also includes the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), an umbrella group of militia groups loyal to the Iraqi government and based in Iraq鈥檚 Shi鈥檃 Arab communities, and some other Iraqi militias.
The Federal Court has overturned the federal government鈥檚 decision to allow a $180 million deep sea port on Melville Island near Darwin without an environmental assessment.
Approval of the Port Melville oil and gas marine supply base on the banks of the near pristine Apsley Strait was reversed on October 21 after legal action by the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) on behalf of Environment Centre NT (ECNT).
The decision means the operation of the base at Port Melville now has no Commonwealth approval and all operations must cease. 聽
Anti-WestConnex tollway protesters picketed along the street in Salisbury Road, Newtown, on October 28, in opposition to attempts to carry out a test drill at the site. The drilling is part of the geological survey work required for possible future tunnelling under the nearby Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH).
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As part of this year's Anti-Poverty Week, a conference in South Australia A looked at how a lack of jobs is changing the nature of unemployment into an increasingly long-term phenomenon.
Police arrested 141 people at Cannonball in North Dakota on October 27, moving in with聽聽on Native American water protectors and other activists who for months have waged resistance against the聽, the next day.
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