The legal facts on who owns the minerals under your land
Why miners have a right to what’s under your land, Beef Central, By Samantha Hepburn Associate Professor, School of Law at Deakin University18 Nov 2011 All over Australia, landowners are fighting to...
View ArticleAustralia’s Professor Martin Green spells it out on solar cell technology
Solar guru receives Australia Day honour , 26 January 2012, Anna Salleh ABC Science, http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/01/26/3415244.htm Australia needs to look to Germany if it is to...
View Article“Justice”– a new book on the value of the Aboriginal Legal Service
The Aboriginal Legal Service: born out of injustice Rebecca Boteler ABC News, February 13, 2012 Not so long ago, Aboriginal people weren’t even recognised as citizens of their own country. They...
View ArticleAustralia obliged to take back Lucas Heights nuclear waste – it will go to...
The Australian Greens want to close the Lucas Heights reactor and ban the import and export of nuclear waste …... Nuclear waste will be stored in Sydney at Lucas Heights BY: IMRE SALUSINSZKY, NSW...
View ArticleDoctors slam uranium miner Toro Energy for promoting junk science on...
We call on Toro Energy to stop promoting fringe scientific views to uranium industry workers and to the public at large. The Medical Association for Prevention of War has released a statement signed...
View ArticlePoor safety record of Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation...
Inadequate Safety Practices at Lucas Heights and Inadequate Regulation by ARPANSA, Friends of the Earth 10 Aug 12 Since 2007, a saga has been unfolding regarding contamination accidents at the...
View ArticleRare Earths Reprocessing in Australia
Note – I am not opposed to the mining and reprocessing of rare earths. I recognise that they are a necessary “lesser evil” in the development of modern and renewable technologies. BUT – rare earths...
View ArticleHow Aborigines were cheated out of their land in Victoria
The most important outcome of this event was that Batman became the first and possibly the only early Anglo-Australian to formally recognise the indigenous Aboriginal population as property owners. On...
View ArticleRadioactive toxicity from rare earths processing – gamma radiation
Hello, didn’t Lynas say wastes to be exported? Malaysiakini Dec 10, 2012 Swipenter: Spending another RM2 million to install two units of radioactive detecting machinery is “unnecessary” expenditure....
View ArticleLynas rare earths company DOES have a radioactive waste problem
Lynas was attracted to Malaysia because it was offered tax free status for 10 years. there was little mention of the waste — or “residue”, as Lynas prefers to call it. Lynas and its supporters assert...
View ArticleThe dirt on Australia’s uranium industry, as it holds its “Paydirt” conference
Yellowcake Fever. Exposing the Uranium Industry’s Economic Myths Report in full at: http://www.acfonline.org.au/sites/default/files/resources/ACF_uranium_economics_Yellowcake_Fever.pdf by Dr Jim...
View ArticleRetransfer of Australian obligated plutonium to Australia’s major uranium...
Australia-Euratom Nuclear Safeguards: Plutonium Retransfers …..The Agreement will enter into force when Australia notifies the Delegation to the European Commission that all domestic requirements...
View ArticleHow Australian mining companies and governments grab Aboriginal land
The aggressive neo-liberal land grab is dividing Aboriginal communities and even brothers. As one Traditional Owner in the Northern Territory told me recently, “these mining deals can give one or two...
View ArticleAustralia’s “Northern Territory Intervention” trashed the reputation of...
Government had made it clear that it wished to re-engage itself more directly in the control of community land through leasing options as well as to open up Aboriginal land for development and mining...
View ArticleMedia secrecy allowed Australian territory to become highly radioactively...
Dig for secrets: the lesson of Maralinga’s Vixen B The Conversation, Liz Tynan, 26 July 13 ”……lack of knowledge about the British nuclear tests in Australia is not surprising. The tests were not part...
View ArticleAustralian company Paladin’s uranium contract with Malawi -the “worst...
Malawi gov’t and Paladin: Act on Kayelekera uranium raw deal now! By Veronica Maele-Magombe Nyasa Times, By Veronica Maele-Magombe July 30, 2013 Since last week’s stinging observation by UnitedNations...
View ArticleRadio: Adelaide the hub of military industrial intelligence nuclear complex
The issue isn’t nuclear power. The issue is processing uranium for nuclear power that then can be used for defence You have to understand this in terms of in terms of Adelaide, -it’s a military...
View ArticleEquals Indigenous Land Under Attack through ILUA Indigenous Land Use Agreement
Australia: ILUA Indigenous Land Use Agreement Equals Indigenous Land Under Attack...
View ArticleSt George and Sutherland Shire still want ANSTO’s nuclear facilities – just...
‘The people of Sutherland Shire call on the government to address the long-term future of nuclear waste associated with the continued operation of the ANSTO reactor and increased waste production...
View ArticleSome important details on the Trans Pacific Partnership
Article 12.8 gives rights holders the right to demand personal information about customers of Internet Service Providers – or other service providers – on a mere accusation. . This is a fundamental...
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