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With the Government under fire over asbestos safety concerns concerning the NBN, it should be remembered that the Coalition’s hands are hardly clean when it comes to this deadly industry. With 60,000 people likely to die by 2030...
3 June, 2013 2:00 pm / 43 comments
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Newspoll today says WA will be a landslide victory for the Liberal Party — but Bob Ellis is not so sure.
Mark McGowan and Colin Barnett
WE SEE AGAIN this morning the twists and shifts and scurryings we have come to expect in Murdoch’s...
9 March, 2013 11:09 am / 33 comments
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The Greens’ candidate for the Kimberley, Chris Maher, says that we should be investing in the Kimberley’s environmental and cultural economic assets, not in the creation of an industrial wasteland in one of the great regions of...
8 March, 2013 2:15 pm / 15 comments
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Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence introduces an article by Geoffrey Cousins on the controversial James Price Point gas hub. “There are merely a handful of men capable of instilling fear in the corporate badlands,” Tess writes —...
9 October, 2012 3:51 pm / 52 comments
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The WA Government is proposing to change the Aboriginal Heritage Act to provide less protection for Aboriginal sacred sites. Melinda Wilson says this is exactly the opposite of what is required.
28,000 year old rock art — the sort of...
22 June, 2012 1:29 pm / 2 comments
TweetIn the remote WA desert near Derby, refugees endure horrific conditions in the re-opened Curtin detention centre, managed by secretive foreign company Serco. Antony Loewenstein investigates.
Antony Loewenstein looks towards the bleak Curtin...
15 December, 2011 6:39 am / no comments
TweetThe Western Australian Supreme Court today quashed the State Government’s gas hub land grab at James Price Point in the Kimberley region, after court action by a local Indigenous group. But neither Woodside, nor the WA Premier Colin...
6 December, 2011 9:42 pm / 1 comment