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or Why we can’t trust the military to be environmentally and socially benign

In 2005 the Australian Defence Force (ADF) commissioned an environmental report into the effects of military training exercises Talisman-Sabre 2007 (TS07), in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA) just north of Yeppoon. While the Maunsell Public Environment Report (PER) gave the military the [...]

You might be wondering how militarism could be one of Australia’s big environmental issues. I guess in one sense our contribution to the war on Iraq and wars in general are possibly the most thorough environmental devastations possible.
But I want to be more specific: our government has in mind the kind of collaboration with the [...]

This year I had the privilege of being invited to speak on behalf of the BHP Shareholders for Social Responsibility at the BHP Billiton AGM, the world’s biggest mining company, in Brisbane.
And while it some of it approached sleep-inducing, my eyes were nonetheless open wide by the end of it.  Technologically the experience was stunning. [...]

The phenomenon of peak oil - that is the likelihood that the peak oil production occurred in the 60s and now we are in rapid decline - worries a lot of us. The end of oil as a cheap energy source is an economic crisis for the world, but it also spells a social disaster: [...]

The Howard government presents so many targets for people seeking social justice. Thanks to all of you who’ve come here today to enumerate them. I’m here for all those reasons, but one of my primary concerns is the inroads that the Howard govt is giving the nuclear industry in this country.
With dollar [...]