anti-fracking activists in Australia

There are moratoriums on fracking in Tasmania and Western Australia, while New South Wales has applied certain restrictions on fracking. The new South Australian Liberal government is planning a 10-year ban on fracking in much of the state's south-east. Queensland more broadly allows the practice ...

“Those external issues like Australian government commentary was secondary, not even secondary, it was not part of my decision making. For me it was about ... fracking would bring. The anti-fracking campaign plans to target the NT Labor state conference on May 12 at the Darwin Entertainment Centre.

Wealth management firm AMP could face class action lawsuits after admitting to misleading the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Law firms ... Treasurer Scott Morrison has denied giving the Northern Territory government $260 million in exchange for liberalisation of anti-fracking laws.

The Australia Institute's research director, Roderick Campbell, said the decision to allow fracking would have a huge impact on Australia's carbon emissions and would wipe out emissions savings from the Territory government's 50% renewables target “one hundred fold”. “According to the inquiry, fracking ...

Australia is well placed to make use of nuclear energy for peaceful electricity generation. Aboriginal leaders should also get behind the idea, as former ALP president Warren Mundine already has. The extraction and use of uranium could help create jobs in the regions where many indigenous Australians ...

AN ANTI-fracking group will screen an Australian documentary on the subject at Rotherham's Trades club. Frack Free South Yorkshire has arranged the showing of The Bentley Effect on Thursday evening (5). The film — shot over five years — follows the public opposition to the gas industry staking a claim ...

As Australia's Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel, has said, the anti-fracking scares are baseless. “[Fracking is] being used widely already in the coal-seam gas fields, particularly in Queensland. It's being used widely across America,” he said. “The evidence is that, if properly regulated, it's completely safe.”.

Netflix's “zom-dram” Cargo – what's essentially an Australian The Walking Dead spinoff – boasts far more inspiration from survival instincts over typical rotter squashing. No tactical military platoons, just a father and child fighting against outbreak paranoia. Supplies are scarce, native tribes echo ritualistic ...

The NT's anti-fracking movement is calling on the Government to reverse a second controversial decision this weekend, after it backed down from a $50 million plan due to public outcry. The plans for the $50m museum at Myilly Point were officially scrapped on Sunday — the same day about 200 people ...