Agriculture

Protests against Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz’s neoliberal government continue to intensify, reports Pablo Meriguet.

Labor conspicuously omitted plans to avert the climate emergency in its budget, however renewable energy projects are advancing nonetheless. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Extinction Rebellion SA organised a series of creative protests outside the Australian Energy Producers conference to protest the push for more fossil fuels in a climate emergency. Markela Panegyres reports.

The Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group defended a NSW Court of Appeal ruling in the High Court that the climate change impacts of fossil fuel projects have to be taken into account. Kerry Smith reports.

A recent High Court case, over undercover footage filmed inside a Victorian slaughterhouse, matters because whistleblowers have long played an important role in exposing exploitation that powerful interests would prefer to keep hidden. Greg McFarlane reports. 

Climate campaigners say NSW Labor’s decision to open the state’s west to gas exploration companies will harm the environment and make the transition to benign energy more difficult. Jim McIlroy reports.

Local communities are resisting the far-right Argentinian government’s attempts to modify glacier protection laws to allow mega-mining. Olivia Ferrari reports.

Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre — authors of Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown — about how Karl Marx’s value theory helps explain imperialism’s economic core and ecological breakdown.

The Rosemouth Hotel bar was overflowing with people supporting the launch of the Members First ticket for the United Workers Union election. Riley Breen and Nova Sobieralski report.