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Victorian Central Highlands Regional Forest Agreement
This paper (completed in 2006) seeks to answer the following question: “How well does the Central Highlands Regional Forest Agreement (and supporting documents), impact upon the capacity of the Central...
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2006 Uranium Trade Agreement: Analysis
This paper, completed in 2006, addressed the uranium trade agreement signed between the Australian and Chinese Governments in that year. China/Australia Uranium Trade Agreement: Analysis The...
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James Price Point
This article was featured by Planet Save, in May of 2012: James Price Point: A Hostile Environment The Kimberley Coast, located on the north-western edge of Australia, is under significant threat...
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Industrial Oil Palm: Levelling Malaysian Forests
(completed 2006) Industrial oil palm plantations within Malaysia have increased from 1.7 million hectares in 1990, to 3.37 million hectares in 2002 (Friends of the Earth 2004, p.15). This paper...
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What a Gas: KBR moving into LNG
What a Gas As long term conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close, defense contractors are being forced to diversify their operations. Houston based company KBR provide a classic example of...
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Gas Battle Heats up in Australia
Originally published by the Centre for Research on Globalisation on May 28, 2012: Few issues have focused the environmental movement in Australia as the fight to protect the Kimberley wilderness. The...
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Another Threat to Tassie’s Old Growth
Originally published by New Matilda on December 9th, 2011: With the demise of Gunns Limited, it finally looked like Tasmania’s precious old growth forests were going to be protected. However, the...
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Climate Change Awareness and Action: Bridging the Gap
The assumption has always been that climate change awareness raising leads to knowledge, which increases the likelihood of action. However, this is not necessarily the case. In the United States,...
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Super Trawler Stranded
The super trawler known as ‘Abel Tasman’ (previously named the Margiris) has been docked at the South Australian town of Port Lincoln since August. The owners are outraged that the Australian...
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Infiltrating the Campaign: Corporate Spies in Activism
As direct action coordinated by activist groups has proven to be an effective measure of shutting down corporate operations, governments and corporations have increasingly sought to gain information on...
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GM trap for farmers – Monsanto, Cargill and the ‘trojan horse’
The integration of farmers into supply chains of the dominant agribusiness corporations is sometimes portrayed as resulting in an arrangement which is beneficial to these farmers. However, the power...
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Tasmanian forests and interpretations of ‘science’
The Australian Government, led by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, has recently announced that they would be seeking to repeal the World Heritage listing of 74,000 hectares of forest in Tasmania. The final...
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Stopping the timber barons
Whatever politically charged label is attributed to the forests of Tasmania – old growth, high conservation value, regrowth, carbon sinks – these forests are of significant ecological importance. So,...
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