Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 17/02/2004 - 15:32
February 17, 2004
National environment group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has the findings of a new report tabled in the New South parliament today. The NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into the Transport and Storage of Nuclear waste has found that the Federal Governments proposal to transport radioactive waste across NSW cannot be justified and should be abandoned.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 16/02/2004 - 20:21
February 16, 2004
Peace Groups Urge Govt To Back El Baradei Call On Nuclear Proliferation
Friends Of The Earth Australia
Australian Peace Committee
Campaign For International Cooperation And Disarmament (CICD)
Friends of the Earth, Australian Peace Committee, and CICD today called on the Australian government to back the call by Mohamed El Baradei , former head of the IAEA, to start with the elimination of the nuclear arsenals of the established nuclear weapons powers when pushing for action to end nuclear proliferation at the upcoming NPT Prepcom in New York in April.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 12/01/2004 - 04:10
12 January 2004
Calls are intensifying in Jakarta and Canberra for a full and immediate investigation into violence by paramilitaries at an Australian mine in North Maluku, linked to lobbying by Australian Embassy officials in Indonesia aimed at evicting local people from mine leases and overturning an environment protection ban on mining in protected areas.
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 08/01/2004 - 20:07
Thursday 8 Jan 2004
BRIMOB paramilitary police acting as security for Newcrest Mining today shot one person dead and arrested and beat many others of the Kao and Malifut community who took part in a peaceful protest against the company's operations on their land in Halmahera, North Maluku.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 22/12/2003 - 19:44
December 22, 2003
Friends of the Earth (FoE) Climate Justice Campaigner Stephanie Long, was surprised by the strength of the Australian governments claims of the impacts of climate change in the recently released report Climate Change: An Australian Guide to the Science and Potential Impacts.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 26/11/2003 - 19:41
November 26, 2003
US groups warn on trade agreement
Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth (U.S), National Environment Trust, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defence Council & Sierra Club
Australian Federal Parliament
C/o The Hon. Mark Vaile
Federal Minister for Trade
Parliament House
Canberra, ACT 2600
Australia
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 10/11/2003 - 19:40
November 10, 2003
Leading environment groups have joined southern Sydney residents to call for an urgent halt to construction works at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor following a report in today's Australian newspaper that the site may have been targeted by terrorists.
Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 31/10/2003 - 19:38
October 31, 2003
National environment group Friends of the Earth (FoE) will join with people at parties across Australia today celebrating the shelving of the ill-fated Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu. The national celebrations mark the completed re-burial of over 50,000 tonnes of unprocessed uranium ore at the controversial site this week.
Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 28/10/2003 - 19:32
October 28, 2003
Peace Groups Urge Govt To Follow Senate, and Support UN Weapons Resolution
Friends of The Earth Australia
Australian Peace Committee
Campaign For International Cooperation And Disarmament (CICD)
Australian peace groups have urged the government to follow yesterdays vote by the Australian Senate in support of the New Agenda Resolution 'Towards a nuclear weapon free world: a New Agenda' supported by South Africa, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Sweden and Ireland, which is being put through the United Nations General Assembly's First Committee on disarmament on 29 October.
