Tom Flanagan

  • Stop Jabiluka mine: the next stage

    By Sarah Peartand Tom Flanagan Opposition continues to mount against the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine inside the Northern Territory's precious Kakadu National Park. Defying the clear opposition of the area's Aboriginal traditional owners, the

  • How far can Mardi Gras take us?

    How far can Mardi Gras take us?With half a million people in the streets of Sydney watching a celebration of lesbian and gay pride, a Mardi Gras visitor from Mars might presume that Australian society in 1998 is relaxed and

  • Join the Jabiluka blockade, Mirrar urge

    DARWIN — The traditional owners of the site of the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine are calling on people to join the blockade to stop construction of the mine. A statement says: "Mirrar people have fought to protect the country and

  • Stakes raised in Jabiluka uranium battle

    DARWIN — Aboriginal traditional owners are blocking a key aspect of the plan to mine uranium at Jabiluka. They are using the limited legal rights they now have to refuse to consent to the milling of Jabiluka uranium ore at the

  • Actions against Jabiluka

    Actions against JabilukaDARWIN — Anti-uranium activists are planning to blockade the Jabiluka uranium mine if the Aboriginal traditional owners of the mine site, the Mirrar people, fail to get justice in the

  • Progressives do well in NT elections

    DARWIN — While the Northern Territory elections returned the ruling Country-Liberal Party to government (with 18 seats to Labor's seven), a significant vote was recorded for progressive candidates in a range of electorates. The

  • Darwin rally against racism

    DARWIN — A strong statement against the racist politics of Pauline Hanson was made here on August 26. Eight hundred people rallied outside a One Nation party recruiting meeting in suburban Nightcliff. This was despite prior

  • Darwin rally supports indigenous Australians

    Darwin rally supports indigenous AustraliansDarwin — More than 1200 people turned out here to express solidarity with Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders on Saturday, August 2. "Walking Together", a march and concert,

  • Traditional owners fight Jabiluka mine

    DARWIN — The Aboriginal traditional owners of the site of the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine have taken their struggle to stop the mine to the Federal Court. The validity of the Jabiluka mineral lease is being challenged by

  • CES to go: lessons of a shambles

    The leadership of the Community and Public Sector Union and its new section council covering the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) have abandoned any pretence of a campaign to

  • Jabiluka mine faces strong opposition

    Public comment on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed uranium mine at Jabiluka closed on January 9. Australian Conservation Foundation campaigner Dave Sweeney observed, "The Jabiluka EIS is not a

  • Calls for inquiries into uranium mining

    Four major environment organisations have called for an inquiry into uranium mining in Kakadu National Park. The Australian Conservation, the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth and the Environment Centre of the Northern