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...

It was a quiet afternoon at Camp Binbee - the exhausted recovery from the at times frantic activity of trying to stop Adani’s proposed mega coal mine. As the hot breeze rustled through the trees, a few of us sat down for tattoos. The medium was the “stick and poke” of...

"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive." - Martin Luther King Jr. “Australia is taking real action on climate change and getting results,” Scott Morrison said...

You know the saying, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. Various psychological studies over the years have found some validity in the theory, and on a daily basis around the world people try it out for various reasons and to various extents....

I’ve always been one of those people (you know, the artists, religious believers and flat-earthers) who believes not everything can be explained by science. Science is good for understanding the mechanics of how things work, but not necessarily why we should care how...

Living at Camp Binbee, welcoming new people is a regular task. As part of the process introducing them to the camp, everyone signs a document saying they agree to the campaign’s protocol of non-violence – towards one another, towards people we come into contact with,...

The first Australian political “lock-on” took place in 1908, in an auspicious location: the British House of Parliament. Muriel Matters grew up in South Australia, one of the first places in the world where women could vote. Moving to Britain and illegible to vote due...

The week began with dramatic reports of climate damage. The Arctic is on fire, huge ice melts in Greenland and Alaska, record temperatures, Pacific Island nations demanding Australia prioritises rising sea levels ahead of our own strategic concerns in the region. Just...

On Monday, Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan spoke at a NSW mining conference. As part of his speech, he addressed industry concerns about China’s ongoing ban on Australian coal imports. “The obvious next, big hope for our coal is India... Since the election...

Journalists arrested and harsh court rulings made for an eventful week on the frontlines of climate action around Australia. Monday morning began with two people blocking entry to Adani’s Abbot Point coal terminal just north of Bowen. Matilda Heselev and Emily Starr...

Though he hasn’t been quite as ubiquitous as he was in the leadup to the federal election, in the last fortnight Clive Palmer has been in the news for a couple of reasons. One was him claiming that, following his win in court against his former business partners CITIC...