Gelliondale Resources, a subsidiary of Melbourne company Ignite Energy Resources Limited, have applied for a 鈥渞etention licence鈥 for a project to mine brown coal at Gelliondale, in the South Gippsland region.
The application includes a work program of 鈥渇ield exploration activities such as drilling, sampling, excavation of costeans or pits and surveying,鈥 according to the company website.
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Refugee rights advocates spent much of this year dreading the election of the Tony Abbott government and its predicted fallout for those seeking protection in Australia. What can they now expect in 2014?
Not just the hall but the verandah of the Serbian Centre was packed when more than 300 people came to the first public meeting of Aquis Aware, a group formed in response to the proposed Aquis casino in one of the city鈥檚 beachside suburbs, Yorkeys Knob.
The mega-resort would have nine hotels and big entertainment and sports venues. An environmental impact statement for the project has not been tabled, so details of the Aquis proposal are murky.
But speakers were able to address many of the concerns of those present, most of who were opposed to or questioned the proposed development.
Since launching in March 2011, the campaign to stop coal seam gas (CSG) mining has grown into one of the most powerful and broadly supported community campaigns ever seen in the Illawarra.
Involving unprecedented numbers of people, the immense pressure on the government has so far , which threatens the .
More often than not I am not quick enough with a comeback and probably that is just as well. Just the other day, when I was out in the street distributing 91自拍论坛 Weekly, a person roughly brushed past and muttered 鈥渢raitor!鈥
She walked on and from about two metres away turned around, aimed her beady eyes at a poster I had put up advertising a Christmas visit to refugees in detention and shouted: 鈥淵ou are traitors, that鈥檚 what you are!鈥
鈥淕ive refugees some solidarity this Christmas,鈥 was the headline on the poster.
At the national refugee protest in Canberra on November 18, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young concluded her speech by saying her first involvement in politics was through the refugee movement and that she used to come to rallies like this, until she realised that it was more important to change the minds of the people inside parliament, so she stood for parliament instead.
I鈥檝e heard Hanson-Young and Greens candidates make similar statements previously.
I think such statements need to be challenged.
Ninety two percent of Indigenous languages are fading or extinct. Australia has suffered the largest and most rapid known loss of languages and past government policies have been largely to blame.
This is clearly outlined in the Our Land: Our Languages report which was released by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs late last year.
After negotiating for 16 months, the Ambulance Employees Australia in Victoria say they are not much closer to securing a contract that gives them the pay levels they are seeking and protects the quality of their service to the public.
On December 4, the union rejected the latest offer from the state government for a 12% pay rise over the next three years.
The unity discussions between the Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative have come to an end.
In a November 3 letter on behalf of the Socialist Alternative National Executive, Mick Armstrong wrote: 鈥淭he overall political projects of both organisations are not sufficiently similar to carry through a sustained and productive unity that could advance the cause of the revolutionary left in Australia and the broader class struggle.鈥
The Socialist Alternative letter lists four major political differences:
"Qantas in crisis: 1000 jobs to go; Warning of $300 million loss; [federal transport minister Warren] Truss rules out aid," was the dramatic headline on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald on December 5.
The deep problems ailing Australia's national airline pose a clear choice between two options: allow the airline to battle on in the chaos of the international airline wars, or re-nationalise Qantas as a key part of a socially progressive and environmentally sustainable public transport policy.
Violent clashes have once again erupted between local people, police and company security guards at the giant Porgera gold and silver mine in Papua New Guinea's highlands, operated and largely owned by the Canadian corporation Barrick Gold 鈥 the world's biggest gold mining company.
This statement was released by the Queensland Civil Liberties Network on November 30.
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A packed meeting of more than 70 concerned聽citizens聽and representatives from community organisations founded a new campaigning organisation at Brisbane's Electrical Trades Union hall on November 27, responding to what organisers called "an unprecedented crackdown on civil liberties in Queensland".
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