Action updates

ADELAIDE — EYA held a loud and energetic demonstration against uranium mining on February 25. It began outside the Department of Mines and Energy and ended with a march through the streets into Rundle Mall. The demonstrators chanted against the Western Mining Corporation and also for the closing of the Roxby Downs mine. The demonstration was called in response to leakage of waste water from WMC's Olympic Dam.

SYDNEY — Rainforest Action Group swung into action on February 20 when 30 protesters took to Sydney Harbour to prevent the docking of a ship carrying rainforest timber from Malaysia. From 20 kayaks and two inflatable rubber rafts, some protesters managed to board the ship and chained themselves to it with bicycle locks and chains. This action is part of a campaign to highlight the unsustainable logging of the Malaysian rainforest, which, if not stopped soon, will completely destroy it by the year 2000.

• More than 300 people rallied at Cabbage Tree Point, Jervis Bay, on February 20 to protest against the area being short-listed for the relocation of the Newington arms depot. The official reason for the relocation is the Olympic Games development, but it is also part of a push by the federal government to expand the Jervis Bay naval base. A delegation of Jervis Bay conservation groups is planning to go to Canberra to put the case against the arms depot.
  

From GLW issue 133