Northern Australia Updates
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Why damn northern Australia? - September 20, 2011
How many hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars is Tony Abbott prepared to pour down the bottomless pit labelled northern development to keep Barnaby Joyce and Bill Heffernan happy? Unfortunately it looks like the sky is the limit following reports that Team Abbott is refloating harebrain schemes to farm northern Australia by damming the rivers of the Top End.
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Bike to Broome 2400kms in 5 days - to help Protect the Kimberley - September 01, 2011
Over five days, two teams of 10 riders completed an around-the-clock tandem bike ride to raise awareness and to oppose the building of the proposed gas processing plant at James Price Point, 40 kilometres north of Broome.
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Huge dirty coal mine planned for Cape York - August 16, 2011
While conservationists, Traditional Owners and parts of the Queensland Government have been working towards a World Heritage listing for stunning Cape York Peninsula, mining companies want to turn the region into a giant dirty coal mine.
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'Death nets' sweeping Australia's oceans clean of life - August 11, 2011
Fishing nets as wide as eight kilometres and bottom trawling are devastating Australia’s marine life and undermining a Federal Government promise to create marine sanctuaries.
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Broome ‘No gas hub’ campaign strengthens - August 03, 2011
This week hundreds of Broome residents met Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke at a ‘picnic in the park’ to tell him what they thought about Woodside’s plans for a huge industrial processing plant in their backyard.
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Cape York wonder returned to Traditional Owners - August 02, 2011
Rinyirru National Park is the largest national park on Cape York Peninsula and one of the largest in northern Australia. Rinyirru is home to spectacular and abundant bird life, beautiful lakes and waterholes and is choc full of saltwater crocodiles. In late June 2011, the ownership and management of this special place was returned to its Traditional Owners after a 30 year campaign.
