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Politicians politic while the Reef burns
A war of words erupted yesterday between Queensland and Australian Government Ministers over who had done more to keep the Great Barrier Reef off the World Heritage ‘in danger’ list following the UNESCO Committee’s decision on Wednesday. A war of words erupted yesterday between Queensland and Australian Government Ministers over who had done more to…
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Fracking blackmail will take us down a time tunnel to nowhere land
Fracking is a loaded word. When it is spoken people see images of lit cigarette lighters next to water taps with pops of flame jumping from the flowing liquid. Burning rivers, water contamination and mystery illnesses. It’s an unpopular word, an ugly word. Only fitting for an ugly, destructive practice. Originally published on The…
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NAIF are holding taxpayers’ money to ransom behind a wall of secrecy
Press release – 27 June, 2017June 28, 2017: The continued refusal of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) to respond to any and all freedom of information requests represents a failure to the Australian taxpayer and is impermissible under law.More than 1,500 Greenpeace supporters used an online tool created to assist them in submitting a…
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Exposing Canavan’s Coal Slush Fund
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility: secretive, compromised and currently considering giving $1 billion of public money to the climate-wrecking Carmichael coal mine. But the good news is that the Federal Parliament has just authorised a Senate inquiry into the NAIF, to get to the bottom of the conflict of interest and secrecy at the heart…
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Queensland’s NAIF announcement a nail in the coffin for Adani’s Carmichael mega-mine
Press release – 26 May, 2017Saturday May 27, 2017: Today’s announcement by the Queensland government rules out any money from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), as currently legislated, being used in the proposed Adani Carmichael mega-mine.In a release today the Queensland state government announced that the proposed mine, in the Galilee Basin, would be…