Guerrilla Gardening - Newcastle

A community festival "Cultivating Creative Community"was held today at Webb Park Mayfield, /Newcastle Guerrilla Gardening Group made Garden Beds and planted Herbs and Veggies. The Gardens where extended During the recent Climate Camp by Camp attendees.

Police Overreaction at Newcastle Coal Protest

New South Wales police have mustered a force of 160 officers to manage protestors at this week's Climate Camp in Newcastle. Riot Squad, water police, mounted police and police dogs will be at the ready, preempting conflict that organisers have been carefully planning to avoid.

The camp comes in the wake of the release of the Garnaut Draft Report on Climate Change and the proposed introduction in 2010 of a Carbon Emissions Trading scheme which has met political and industry opposition.

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Greenpeace steps up pressure on NSW and Federal Governments on Climate Change

Update: Greenpeace blockades coal fired power station, demands Energy [R]evolution

Greenpeace has announced the Esperanza will be visiting the East Coast of Australia over the next six weeks highlighting the need for a transition away from coal to clean renewable energy as contained in a new report called Blueprint for an energy [r]evolution

In related news: The Minister for Climate Change has announced new Greenhouse Gas Emission reporting requirements; and scientists have proclaimed that ocean warming has proceeded faster than expected and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in danger of collapse over a period of 20 years possibly raising sea levels 4 to...
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Sea Shepherd launch Operation Musashi at International Whaling Commission

Skye Bortoli of Australian Teens Against Whaling has described the 60th International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile as pathetic saying “this body will be known in the future as a small group of ecologically arrogant people who are condemning the world’s whales to agony and oblivion for petty politics and a few lousy bucks.”

UK Indymedia Feature | Sea Shepherd

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Inquiry into Conviction of Phuong Ngo: Justice David Patten to Preside

A spokesman for the Supreme Court has today announced Chief Justice
Jim Spigelman has issued a direction for a review of Phuong Ngo's
conviction under Section 79 of the Crimes Appeal and Review Act of 2001.

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Piles Creek inquest reopens at Glebe on Monday the 2nd of June 2008 by Edward James

Monday
the 2nd of June rolls around again, this is 2008. This time the coroner
will again consider who will be held responsible, and why, for the
deaths of five people, the extended Bragg family, who lived in the
Gosford Local Government Area. The attached photo with comment added by
me was taken by Edward James at the road collapse site at Bulls Hill on
the Woy Woy Road a local road used by Minister John Della Bosca, his
wife Belinda Neal and their family.

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No Internet Censorship for Australia

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has launched nocleanfeed.com as part of the campaign against Labors planed compulsory Internet censorship for all Australian homes and schools.  The censorship plans are shrouded in secrecy but will involve a massive federal government blacklist of website (both legal and illegal) that Internet Service Providers (eg Telstra, Optus and iiNet) would be forced to block Australian Internet users from accessing.  The proposed system has been compared to the Great Firewall of China used by the communist government to track users and prevent them from accessing news site such as bbc news, wikipedia and websites of human rights and religious organisations.

NoCleanFeed.com | Electronic Frontiers Australia | ISP content filtering still...
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Evans inflames an already hostile situation

The president of National Roads and Cyclists Association, Mr Alan Odds today called on the NRMA to stop inflaming the ongoing war between motorists and cyclists with their claim that cyclists do not belong on main roads in peak hour. Referring to the interview with NRMA president Alan Evans on ABC Radio's PM program this evening, Mr Odds said, “It would appear that NRMA policy, as articulated by its president, Alan Evans, is that cyclists should not be on main roads in peak hour Sydney because the mix of motorists and cyclists is unsafe.”

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Forest activists take their protest to the headwaters of the Styx River, Tasmania

This morning, community activists halted the logging of old growth forests near the headwaters of the Styx River. Ten activists have peacefully occupied coupe TN47C, located 100 metres from the TWWHA boundary near the base of Mount Mueller to highlight the continued destruction of Tasmania's unique old growth forests.

"Tasmania is in a state of environmental emergency. Every single day, our island's unique old growth forests are felled, bulldozed and trucked off to the woodchipper. Gunns Ltd.'s stranglehold on the Lennon government has been highlighted again this week and once again it will be our precious carbon rich forests, the taxpayer and the...
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Aboriginal Anzacs of the Budawang Tribe

Caution: Do not read this story if you are troubled by names or photos of deceased persons.

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