Shenhua Watermark create Great Wall of Shame

Media Release from Gomeroi Traditional Custodians. The Gomeroi Traditional Custodians fear that Shenhua Watermark are using obstructive tactics to interfere in the Public hearing process of the NSW Planning and Assessment Commission which affords all people the...

Saving the Koala, from Maules Creek to Japan

TOKYO 8 January 2015: The campaign to protect the Leard State Forest, near Narrabri, has gone global, with a group of Japanese and Australian people rallying in Tokyo at corporate offices and the Australian Embassy to call for the protection of the Koala from open-cut...

No ‘Coal for Christmas’ as Whitehaven Coal disruptions continue

MAULES CREEK, 24 December 2014: A man has suspended himself from a rail bridge crossing the Namoi River blocking a coal train being loaded at Whitehaven Coal’s controversial Maules Creek mine from leaving the site. The train blocked at the Maules Creek mine is...

Protest halts first coal train from Maules Creek mine

  Newcastle, 15 December: A peaceful blockade has halted the first train load of coal coming from the controversial Maules Creek coal mine on its way to Newcastle’s Kooragang Island coal export terminals this morning. A group of 22 people met the train this...

Reflections on 160th Anniversary of Eureka Stockade

Today, Wednesday December 3, marks the 160th anniversary of Eureka Stockade, the birthplace of Australian democracy. The diggers of Ballarat, stood together in one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Australian history. They stood together under the southern...