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In Australia the practice of SLAPPS is well known to environmental and social justice activists. A SLAPP or Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation has been around in practice since the 70s when then Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen raised many nusiance law suitsagainst his detractors as a matter of course. Such cases keep activists stressed out, [...]

As an atheist anarchist greenie with kids, major public holiday events often cause me ethical grief. Despite the religious bias of many of the milestones that make a kids life exciting, as a lifetime athiest, they haven’t given me much disquiet. Except where I have to defuse some blatantly wrong story perpetrated by the school [...]

This week I was finally made aware of the coming and going of the Australian Defence Force’s Public Environment Report for the Talisman-Saber 09 war games. In July 2009 about 30,000 US and Australian troops will participate in war games that will take place primarily in the Shoalwater Bay region in Queensland and at Delamere [...]

In recent weeks a proposed shale oil plant and a proposed coal port have been rejected by state and federal governments respectively. In August Federal environment minister Peter Garrett rejected a $5b proposal for a coal port at Shoalwater Bay on the central coast and QLD Premier Anna Bligh rejected a shale oil proposal for [...]

George Monbiot, darling of the grass roots climate movement, has this week ruffled some feathers amongst the activists he professes to admire. He made a scathing attack on the leftist organisers of the Kingsnorth climate camp, that in his own words was amongst “the most inspiring events I’ve ever witnessed. I am awed by the [...]