Archive for: December, 2011

An historic week for equality in Australia

An historic week for equality in Australia

ShareIt has been a monumental week for LGBT rights in Australia – and Queensland in particular – although Matt Williams says it could have been a whole lot better. Qld Premier Anna Bligh addresses a pro-equality rally outside the Qld Parliament....

 

Queensland Government wants CSG come hell or high water

Queensland Government wants CSG come hell or high water

ShareThe Queensland Government seeks to massively expand CSG development in Queensland despite real environmental risks. Tim Badrick explains. Anna Blgh is up close and personal with CSG developer (photo courtesy Murray Ware) How dare Queensland...

 

News Ltd carbon coverage is campaigning not reporting

News Ltd carbon coverage is campaigning not reporting

ShareNews Ltd’s coverage of the Government’s carbon price policy has been so negative and one-dimensional that some papers in the stable are misleading the public by doing partisan campaigning rather than balanced reporting, says a new...

 

Ayotte amendment seeks return to Bush-era torture

Ayotte amendment seeks return to Bush-era torture

ShareAmendment currently before Congress seeks to re-establish newly outlawed US torture techniques. Jeffrey Kaye from Truthout reports. Artist's rendering of a detainee in goggles and earmuffs used for sensory deprivation. (Image: Jared...

 

Remembering the Eureka Stockade

Remembering the Eureka Stockade

Share  December 1s t this year is 157th the anniversary of the Eureka Stockade — which was a truly defining moment in the history of this land, says Kim Peart. On the 1st of December 1854 the first Southern Cross flag was raised at...

 

News Ltd starts smear campaign against Slipper

News Ltd starts smear campaign against Slipper

ShareIt didn’t take long for the Murdoch press to start the “let’s get Peter Slipper” ball rolling. Senior correspondent Barry Everingham comments. The Liberal Party’s Melbourne newspaper, published under the banner of “Herald...

 

Senate Report recommends tighter controls on Coal Seam Gas

Senate Report recommends tighter controls on Coal Seam Gas

ShareSenator Bill Heffernan, the Chairman of the Senate Standing References Committee on Rural Affairs & Transport yesterday released the Committee’s report on the Impact of Coal Seam Gas Extraction on the Murray-Darling Basin. The...

 

The PETA vermin rabbit fur debate

The PETA vermin rabbit fur debate

Shareby Emily Osmond PETA says we shouldn’t wear fur under any circumstances, but what about when the fur is the unavoidable by-products of vermin eradication? Emily Osmond reports. Victorian university student Molly Herben attracted...

 
 
 
 

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