A week can hardly go by lately without a new attack on environmental justice in Australia. The latest threat comes from Andrew Nikolic, Federal Member for the Tasmanian seat of Bass. The Liberal MP has moved to strip charity status from environmental groups, who he perceives as… Read more
The name Aquis probably doesn’t mean much to you if you live outside Far North Queensland. If you do, it’s a name that’s been on everyone’s lips for the last year and has dominated local media. Aquis Great Barrier Reef Resort is a mega casino proposed… Read more
Last week, Tony Abbott embarked on his international tour of embarrassment. Not content to cause shame on the national stage, he is hell-bent on humiliating Australia in lands far and wide, following his lampooning on popular US TV show Last Week Tonight. Of all the… Read more
On Tuesday, the Abbott government delivered their much anticipated budget, putting an end to the age of ‘reckless spending’ and ‘entitlement’ and saving Australia from its path to economic destruction. There were some winners. The mining industry was generally happy with budget, finally rid of… Read more
Last week, Australia’s favourite mining magnate / politician / conspiracy theorist Clive Palmer made a bid for a stake in the controversial Abbot Point development. The $3 billion expansion of the T2 coal export Terminal was abandoned by BHP Billiton in November and now Clive,… Read more
The Queensland Environment Minister Andrew Powell yesterday urged Australians to boycott the much loved American ice cream company, Ben & Jerry’s. What is this lunacy, you ask? What possibly could these old, smiling purveyors of frozen goodness have done to become the focus of such… Read more
With July 1st bringing a new senate, there has been a lot of talk about the Mining Tax. The Mining Tax, or Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT), has been a thorn in the side of the Liberal government since its introduction in 2012 and its… Read more
Today we learned that our reef destroying, shark culling, forest logging Environment Minister Hunt will grant himself retrospective legal immunity. What does this mean? Greg Hunt will be immune from any legal challenges to environmental approvals he issued before December 31st, 2013. Many of these… Read more
What’s scarier than an ocean without sharks? An ocean without them. Environment Minister Greg Hunt has cleared the way for the cull of Great White, Tiger and Bull Sharks in Western Australia by exempting it from legislation designed to protect the threatened species. Thousands have… Read more
Chinese billionaire and developer Tony Fung is proposing to build his Macau style mega-casino and resort, the Aquis Great Barrier Reef Resort, on the Cairns northern beach of Yorkeys Knob. The $4.3 billion casino will have 9 luxury hotels, a convention centre, 2 x 2500-seat… Read more