Activists campaigning for stronger action to stop climate change often come up against pseudo-scientific arguments from climate change deniers.
Arguments put forward by misusers and abusers of the science such as Ian Plimer or 鈥淟ord鈥 Christopher Monckton have become mainstays of the deniers鈥 argument arsenal.
Below are three of the most common violations of science that are touted as evidence disproving the 鈥渢heory鈥 of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change, and response to these arguments.
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A lively picket was held outside Arrow Energy鈥檚 main Brisbane office on Albert Street on March 23.
Called by Socialist Alliance candidate for South Brisbane, Liam Flenady, the picket protested the recent revelations that , including the suburbs Pullenvale, Karara Downs and Moggill.
The federal immigration department said on March 20 that it would bring all asylum seekers under a 鈥渘ew single protection visa process鈥. From March 24, refugees that arrive by boat would be able to put their cases for refugee status to the same body 鈥 the Refugee Review Tribunal 鈥 as those who arrived by plane.
Since former Liberal prime minister John Howard excised large parts of Australia鈥檚 migration zone in 2001, asylum seekers that arrived by boat were taken to the Independent Merits Review (IMR) system.
Members of took Melbourne Council to court on March 20 over its attacks on the movement last year.
Occupy Melbourne said: 鈥淗earings commence today at the Federal Court as part of the legal challenge against the City of Melbourne鈥檚 response to the peaceful Occupy Melbourne protests held throughout the city since October 2011.
This video tells the story of the police invasion of the Nyoongar Tent Embassy on Thurs March 22.
The on March 16 into the January 2011 flood that submerged parts of suburban Brisbane. There have been very few more expensive exercises in irrelevance than this 658-page report.
This is what the Nyoongar Tent Embassy looked like before the police invaded. This photo was taken on Thursday March 22,聽about one hour before the police arrived.
One of my first jobs as a junior reporter was to meet flights bringing famous people to Australia.
Growing up in a country far from everywhere (except, as my father would say, "where you come from"), I was led to believe that Australia's honour was at risk unless a well-known person from Over There said something flattering about us, preferably the moment they arrived at Sydney airport.
Liam Flenady, the , released the statement below on March 21.
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The Socialist Alliance declares its full support for the Sovereign Embassy Brisbane, established by the Murri community in Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, on March 13.
The released the statement below on March 20.
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The Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN) has been informed that an Iranian man in Darwin鈥檚 Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC) swallowed parts of a light bulb today as a form of self harm. The man is detained in the North 2 compound that has seen large numbers of suicide attempts and self-harm incidents this year.
More than 100 activists and refugee campaigners gathered on March 17 for the first protest held at the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) detention centre in Pinkenba. The protest was organised by the .
Originally intended as a centre to house people who had overstayed their visas, due to the overcrowding in other detention centres in Australia BITA now serves as yet another refugee detention centre.
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