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Even when a pre-election budget has the government handing out funding announcements like Santa Claus, for some of us official mail is rarely a welcome appearance in our letterbox. So I didn’t have high hopes when I opened a letter the other day. Inside the envelope...

If you can cast your mind back to last week – you know, before the onset of war and the latest horrendous natural disaster – you might remember a brief moment when the news seemed like it could actually deliver us some pleasant surprises. A couple of stories appeared...

After two weeks of world leaders gathering in Glasgow to negotiate a new global climate agreement, COP26 President Alok Sharma stood up to announce the final agreement. Fighting back tears, he said "May I just say to all delegates I apologise for the way this process...

There was red dirt, blazing sun and road trains rumbling past; as over 100 cyclists gathered at the start of May for the Tour De Carmichael. Cars are pretty scarce there on the corner of the Gregory Highway and Moray-Carmichael Rd, let alone pushbikes. It was a long...

On May 12th, Abhijeet Swami and Sam Brown stopped construction on Adani’s rail corridor for seven hours by locking themselves to machinery. Abhijeet wrote this to explain why this acion was necessary. The Adani Group is a source of oppression from Adivasi to...

Many of us are glad to see the end of 2020 and sick of hearing about it. But a new year, as well as bringing new possibilities, offers us a chance to reflect on what we’ve done. To change the world requires being future focused, but we also need to learn from our...

Unfortunately I’ve got some bad news for you all. If you haven't seen it already, popular video conferencing app ‘ZOOM’ has come under fire for lying to us. For the last several years, zoom has claimed the title of secure, end to end encrypted video chats. What’s...

BMD workers going to work on an Adani site near Mt Coolon on Valentine's Day found themselves greeted, not with a bunch of red roses, but by 65-year-old Craig Linn. Craig was chained to a cattle grid, stopping worker entrance to the site. He remained there from before...

Seventy-five year-old Barb Nielsen was so concerned about the impact of climate change that, on January 14, she locked herself to a guard rail outside Adani’s headquarters in Townsville. She was protesting against the company’s new Carmichael coalmine and government...

A well-trained team of FLAC activists recently paid a surprise visit to Hastings Deering in Mackay after hearing that the company was putting together some monstrous machines for Adani’s Carmichael mine. Over a massive site in Mackay’s industrial estate (the scale of...

On December 24th, as most of the nation prepared for the traditional week of rest of and relaxation between christmas and new years, something extraordinary happened to the Australian environmental movement. In one 24 hour period, this country lost three of its great...

On Tuesday December 3rd, two young men climbed on top of a stationary coal train near the Port of Brisbane and refused to come down. They had a banner draped from the carriage showing statistics from recent bushfires. They were protesting against government climate...