Kamala Emanuel

  • Epitaph: for the well-springs of climate change

    Rest in peace, carbon profits, bathed in blood. Before you drown us in your flood, we will rise to bury you. Tremble in fear, carbon merchants, profiteers. You refuse to lift Earth's shroud, your carbon mushroom cloud. A people's fire

  • The dirty politics of climate change

    “We know more about energy policy than the government does … We know where every skeleton in the closet is — most of them we buried”, boasted a member of the self-described “greenhouse mafia”, a group of lobbyists comprising the executive directors of the coal, oil, cement, aluminium, mining and electricity industries, said Clive Hamilton, executive director of the Australia Institute.

  • Corruption leads to 'Clear-felling out of control'

    HOBART — The Tasmanian Labor government and Forestry Tasmania are facing a crisis of credibility. In October, former state forest auditor Bill Manning told a Senate inquiry about illegal practices, corruption, "bonuses" paid to

  • Victory for Blue Ribbon workers

    LAUNCESTON — On October 1, the Tasmanian Industrial Commission reinstated 17 workers who had been locked out of the Blue Ribbon meatworks for 182 days and ordered they be paid for wages lost as a result of the lockout. In her

  • Tasmania's longest lock-out enters 21st week

    LAUNCESTON — The lockout of members of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) employed at the Blue Ribbon Meatworks will enter its 21st week on August 18. It is the longest lockout in Tasmania's history,

  • Sarwari family victory

    LAUNCESTON &#151 The Sarwari family &#151 Mohib, Fatima and their four children &#151 will be able to stay in Australia for now. After a long struggle, the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) reinstated their temporary protection visa

  • Socialist Alliance Tasmanian conference a success

    LAUNCESTON — The Socialist Alliance took a step forward with its state conference held here on April 5-6. Conference participants included members and observers from Hobart, Launceston, and the west and north-west coasts.

  • Anti-war notebook

    Pensioner protests war on IraqLAUNCESTON - Anti-war activist Bob Bensemann cancelled his pension on March 24 in reaction against the government’s treatment of refugees and its support for war on Iraq. In his letter to

  • Hunger striker against the war

    BURNIE — Student anti-war activist Matt Hardy completed a week-long hunger strike against war on Iraq on April 2. Supported by a network of friends and family, Hardy spent the week outside the Kmart Plaza on one of the main

  • Hunger striker in Burnie

    BURNIE — Matt Hardy began a week-long hunger strike on March 26, to protest the war, and call for Australian troops to be brought home. Hardy say's he's on hunger strike because it's a way to protest that's "in people's faces".

  • Anti-war activist notebook

    Blockies for peaceLAUNCESTON — When the war started, like many others, I just had to protest. I joined around 100 other furious people on the side of one of Launceston's busiest roads, calling on motorists to honk for peace.