Scientists affirm Australia's climate already changing

Tue 16 Mar 2010
By takver

In a joint statement released on Monday by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology the stark facts on global warming were outlined: that Australia's climate has already changed with more extremely hot days, fewer cold ones, wetter in the north and drier in the south-east and south-west. The statement outlined in five sections a snapshot of temperature, rainfall, oceans, atmosphere, and what this means for Australia in coming decades.

Tuesday night deadline for buying anti-Gunns TV ad

Mon 15 Mar 2010
By Diet Simon

UPDATE: We've already raised $58,000, but the deadline for our media buy is Tuesday night - can you chip in now? Every donation will help end the pulp mill and protect Tasmanian forests: www.getup.org.au/campaign/StopPollutedPolitics

The Gunns pulp mill is sustained by a polluted politics that's fracturing the natural world and shattering human lives. To stop the mill and safeguard Tasmania's sacred wilderness, we need to empower Tasmanians to finally get Gunns out of their Government.

Urgent letter-writing appeal on NT intervention

Sat 13 Mar 2010
By Diet Simon

By Michele Harris, 'Concerned Australians'

Dear Friends,

would you please write and forward as widely as possible the message below.

Urgent lobbying is needed as the government is attempting to rush new legislation through early next week - perhaps even on Monday. We are unable to rely on the Liberals voting against the bill (for their own reasons) and we need some urgent letter writing by midday Monday. Can you please help with a very short letter? And can you please circulate the request to your own network?

Waihopai Ploughshares trial begins in New Zealand

Sat 13 Mar 2010
By Flowerpower

Almost two years after they took direct action against the US spy base at Waihopai, near Blenheim, three peace activists are standing trial in Wellington's High Court.

Melbourne hail storm - don't mention climate change

Mon 08 Mar 2010
By Flowerpower

Melbourne experienced a hail storm March 6th that has done hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of damage. The storm has been labelled a "once in a century" event. What's not been mentioned is that the storm fits the predicted pattern of the impact of Climate Change on South East Australia.

Stand up with women in Papua New Guinea

Fri 05 Mar 2010
By Anonymous

By Hannah Harborow, Amnesty International

Can we ignore a call for help from our nearest neighbour?

Right on our doorstep two-thirds of women experience violence at the hands of their husbands and 60% of men admit to participating in gang rape.

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), the statistics are incomprehensibly shocking, but the personal stories are even worse.

Imagine the constant fear of living in an environment where your husband is the perpetrator, your family often the facilitators and where the authorities - at best - simply turn a blind eye.

“Aborigines from across the country will fight nuclear dumping”

Wed 24 Feb 2010
By Diet Simon

Goodooga, northwest NSW, 24 February 10 – Aboriginal people will be called from all over Australia to protest in the Northern Territory against any movement of nuclear waste across their traditional lands, an Aboriginal activist says.

Michael Anderson, chairman of an Aboriginal Summit Task Force recently elected in Canberra (click x above for picture), says in a media release: “Nothing will move down the former American Vice-President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton railway line from Darwin to Alice Springs.”

Frankenstein food remains unpopular.

Sun 21 Feb 2010
By Anonymous

Public attitudes to genetically modified (GM) agriculture are not changing with most people still uncomfortable with the technology, according to a study conducted by Swinburne University’s Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society.

Related: GM Canola growing in Melbourne suburb

Marine extinction looms with ocean acidification increasing

Sun 21 Feb 2010
By takver

Scientiists from Bristol University say that ocean acidification is ocurring at a faster pace than anytime in the last 65 million years, raising the possibility of a mass marine extinction event similar to what ocurred about 55 million years ago.

Related: Dr Jeremy Mathis on CO2 acidification threatens northern oceans - (KFSK Public radio audio) | European Project on Ocean Acidification Blog | The Ocean in a High CO2 World | Sigourney Weaver highlights Ocean Acidification in video documentary

Day of protest at NT intervention - Melbourne, 13 February 2010

Fri 19 Feb 2010
By peter

The 2nd anniversary of Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generation saw protests in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Alice Springs against the continuing discrimination against Aboriginal People epitomised by the invasion of the Northern Territory under the name of intervention. Around 300 turned out in Melbourne for a rally starting at the MAYSAR Sport and Recreation Centre in Gertrude Street before marching through the streets to end on the steps of Parliament House.