Channel Seven boss Kerry Stokess HRL Ltd and Chinas Harbin Power Engineering Company are to build a $750 million clean coal power station in the Latrobe Valley that, when operational from the end of 2009, will add significantly to Victorias greenhouse gas emissions.
Stu Harrison
Following the age-old premise of struggling locally to effect change globally, activists fighting for justice for the Palestinian people are taking big steps forward in a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeted against the criminal Israeli state.
The Shock Doctrine
By Naomi Klein
Allen Lane, 2007
576 pages, $32.95 (pb)
By Naomi Klein
Allen Lane, 2007
576 pages, $32.95 (pb)
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With opinion polls showing his government is headed for defeat in this years federal election, PM John Howard has been sure to pull out the, now well-weathered, economic management card in an attempt to regain voter support.
Nuclear power is a solution to nothing but will create endless problems, Helen Caldicott told a meeting of 60 people on June 4. The revival of the nuclear debate by PM John Howard and Labor leader Kevin Rudd was a false one, she said.
Police clashed with protesters in a May Day demonstration in the Chinese territory of Macau. Around 2000 protesters demonstrated against state corruption and lack of jobs for local workers, which they blame on the use of foreign labour. They were
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