The most viewed IA story for 2011, with well over 30,000 unique views, was this late May story by managing editor David Donovan about the shocking Japanese nuclear meltdown, which included grim warnings from Dr Helen Caldicott about what easily may have happened to Japan had the wind changed direction at the wrong time. As it is, the area around Fukushima is effectively uninhabitable forever and this tragic catastrophe is still ongoing.TOP IA STORY OF 2011: Fukushima meltdown – Caldicott says Japan may become uninhabitable – media silent
Posted On Saturday, 31 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Environment, Independent Australia journal, International Tags: Arnie Gunderson, Chernobyl, concentrated media ownership, Crikey, David Donovan, Dr Helen Caldicott, Financial Times, fuel rods, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima meltdown, Germany closing nuclear plants, Haruki Madarame, Helen Caldicott, Huffington Post, Japan, Japan nuclear diaster, Japan uninhabitable, Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission, Japanese nuclear safety regulators, Mark Willacy, media silence on Fukushima, meltdown, Naoto Kan, President Jefferson, Professor Christopher Busby, Radiation, TEPCO, Three Mile Island, Top IA stories of 2011, US radioactivity, Vivian Norris, Ziggy Switkowski
The most viewed IA story for 2011, with well over 30,000 unique views, was this late May story by managing editor David Donovan about the shocking Japanese nuclear meltdown, which included grim warnings from Dr Helen Caldicott about what easily may have happened to Japan had the wind changed direction at the wrong time. As it is, the area around Fukushima is effectively uninhabitable forever and this tragic catastrophe is still ongoing.On New Year’s resolutions
Posted On Saturday, 31 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Life Tags: 19th century, Benjamin Thomas Jones, French Revolution, Gregorian calendar, John Heyl Vincent, New Year's resolutions, Pope Gregory XIII, Richard Wiseman, Socratic maxims, University of Bristol
Rather than coming up with the same old New Year’s resolutions you did last year, Benjamin Thomas Jones offers a thoughtful alternative.The repellant Australian poetry scene
Posted On Friday, 30 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Australian history, Poetry and verse Tags: Australian Bush Poets Association, Australian poetry, Banjo Patterson, bush poetry, David Donovan, Gordon Donovan, Martin Langford, Queensland Poetry Festival, Queensland Poets Association, Queensland Poets Union, QUT, The Man from Snowy River
Independent Australia managing editor David Donovan has been repelled by the self-obsessed, self-referencing, Australian poetry scene — and here's why.TOP IA STORIES OF 2011: Diggers versus the Gillard Government
Posted On Friday, 30 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Independent Australia journal, Politics, War Tags: Angus Houston, Bob Brown, Defence Department, Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill (Fair Indexation) 2010, Ian McManus, Julia Gillard, Labor branch stacking, Labor corruption, Neil Weekes, Nick Xenophon, Penny Wong, RSL, Tess Lawrence, Tony Abbott, Top IA stories of 2011, veterans, Vietnam Veterans’ Association
Independent Australia was, with this June story, the first media organisation to pick up on the disgraceful story of the Federal Government's betrayal of veterans by not fairly indexing their pensions, though the story has now received widespread mainstream media coverage. Editor Tess Lawrence has been at the vanguard of this fight, which continues to this very day — while the discussion board after the story has become a forum for veterans to share information and words of encouragement, with comments numbering into the thousands.Sharing the benefits and costs of capitalism
Posted On Friday, 30 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Business, Economics Tags: benefits of capitalism, capitalism, employees, executive compensation, free market economics, greed, interdependence, investors, managers, Occupy Movement, Peter Gumpert, shareholders, size of Government, Warren Buffett
Peter Gumpert says "...there is widespread misunderstanding in our nation about the critically important contributions that many people – customers, managers, non-managerial workers, other businesses and the broader community – make to any business enterprise."Government brutalises Digger foster parents
Posted On Thursday, 29 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Children, Human rights Tags: child abuse, Diggers, DoCS, domestic violence, Foster parent, Julian Gillard, mental illness, Stephen Smith, Tess Lawrence, veterans affairs, Vietnam veterans
Tess Lawrence shares the harrowing first-hand account of a Vietnam veteran who, despite agreeing to foster several children, has been treated by his Government with "utter contempt and cruelty".TOP IA STORIES OF 2011: #3 – Queen “orders” Gillard to make Australia a Republic
Posted On Wednesday, 28 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Independent Australia journal, Politics, Republic Tags: Australian republic, banana republic, BBC, Bob Hawke, Chasergate, CHOGM, Clarence House, Commonwealth, David Cameron, Duke of Cambridge, Gillard legacy, Gillard meeting Queen, Gough Whitlam, Kate Middleton, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor Party sources, London, Malcolm Fraser, Paul Keating, Prince Charles, Prince William, Princess Diana, Queen's position on Australian Republic, royal censorship of The Chaser, royal honeymoon, royal wedding, Rudd saying sorry, Tess Lawrence, The Chaser, The Queen, The Queen asks Gillard to make Australia Republic, Top IA stories of 2011
Was Julia Gillard urged by the Queen at Buckingham Palace to make Australia a Republic? According to Tess Lawrence's sources, she was — and the question caused a sensation, even being discussed on the ABC Insiders programme.Reaching to the Sun to save the koala
Posted On Wednesday, 28 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Animals, Energy, Environment Tags: Arctic permafrost, carbon, carbon pollution, carbon toxicity, CO2, effects of atmospheric carbon, gum leaves, Kim Peart, ocean acidity, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Peter Glaser, renewables, SBSP, solar, Solaren, space based solar power
One of the victims of climate change could be the koala; Kim Peart says we should look to space for the solution.Grassroots Occupy Movements accumulate victories
Posted On Wednesday, 28 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Democracy, International Tags: Democracy, grassroots activism, Occupy DC, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Rose Aguilar, Tony Fels, US
Despite popular media reports saying the Occupy Movement is dead in the United States, in fact it is expanding through local grassroots activism, says Rose Aguilar.TOP 10 IA STORIES OF 2011 Is it too late to Lock the Gate on Coal Seam Gas?
Posted On Tuesday, 27 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Energy, Environment, Independent Australia journal, Mining Tags: Arrow Energy, Australia Pacific Liquefied Natural Gas, CBM, coal bed methane, coal seam gas, coal seam methane, Conoco Phillips, CSG, CSM, Drew Hutton, fracking, Gasland, Gladstone, Grant King, Independent Australia top stories of 2011, LNG, Lock the Gate, natural gas, Origin Energy, Queensland Gas, Sandi Keane, Tara
Coal seam gas mining developed increasing heat in the Australian heartland during 2011 as the horror stories emerged and people became more and more aware of the risks their Government's were taking with their future water resources and farming industry. This illuminating April investigation by Sandi Keane has been steadily attracting readers all year, as she takes us through the dangerous and sometimes toxic world of coal seam gas and fracking, now a massive and controversial industry in Australia.
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