SYDNEY — With shouts of "Sack the government" and "We'll fight to the end", more than 1200 angry people packed into St George Leagues Club in Kogarah in Sydney's west on June 27 to protest against the ALP state government's
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On June 21 Greenpeace released Dioxin Factories, the first major report documenting dioxin pollution in Australia, and called on the federal government to legislate immediately for a national pollutant inventory. The establishment
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Since the Premiers' Conference and the Council of Australian Governments meeting on June 13 and 14, the competition between federal and state governments in the game of blame has been fierce. But the debate
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The Students and Sustainability conference will be held in one of the environment movement's earliest home bases this year. From July 1 to 5, Lismore in northern NSW, will be hosting the national gathering of environmentalists,
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The government's leader in the Senate and minister for the environment, Robert Hill, announced on May 26 that the government is receiving legal advice from the Attorney General's Department about how it can bypass the Senate to
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If more proof was needed of the falsity of the federal Coalition's claim that its proposal to privatise Telstra is motivated by a concern for the environment, its move to allow an expansion of woodchip exports provides it. The
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Nine years after its formation, the Victorian-based Rainbow Alliance has launched a discussion which will determine a new set of aims, a new structure and name, and possibly even its future existence. Over recent years, many
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Hundreds of people rallied in Australia's cities on May 15 to mark World Climate Day, a non-government day of action to heighten awareness about global climate change. On the same day, several environment and development groups
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Before the last federal election, the Labor Party and Coalition placed restoration of the Murray Darling river system at the centre of their environment policy packages. While environmentalists agree that their responses were
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The bosses' media have been having a field day since the election of the Coalition federal government. Whether the target is the unemployed or Aboriginal people, the formula is much the same: set up a soft target with a story
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On April 17, ACT Green MLA Kerrie Tucker moved in the ACT Legislative Assembly to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 in the ACT. The Greens' move, the first attempt in Australia to introduce such legislation, is supported by
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An Amnesty International delegation, in Australia until March 30, found that "the overall human rights situation" for Aboriginal people in this country "remains serious, particularly regarding the