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Australian mining giant pays price for video spoof defamation threat

By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Wed, Apr 25, 2012 5:31PM UTC View Comments

Australia’s mining giant, Xstrata Coal, is reported to have written Mumbrella, an online discussion site of “everything under Australia’s media and marketing umbrella” this week. The letter contains a threat of a legal defamation suit over a published video parody on Australia’s mining business allegedly posted by Mumbrella. The Australian confirmed the letter to be genuine. Tom Cregan,...

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Environmentalists await results of UN Great Barrier Reef study

By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Wed, Mar 14, 2012 12:15PM UTC View Comments

The Great Barreir Reef in Queensland covers an area of 348,000 square kilometres and more than 2300 kilometres long

Green activists are expecting to hear the results of a study of the Great Barrier Reef conducted by the joint mission of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The experts visited Australia from March 4-14 to examine the park’s environmental conditions, including investigate alleged manmade threats posed by...

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Australia: ‘Flower power’ and the same-sex marriage bill

By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Tue, Feb 14, 2012 2:41PM UTC View Comments

Same-sex marriage supporters take the streets of Australia

Two private bills that will pave the way to legalising same-sex marriage in Australia were introduced today, the ABC reported. Labor MP Stephen Jones signalled he would introduce a private bill at the ALP’s conference in December. This will be the second bill following last week’s indication that Greens MP Adam Bandt and Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie would put forward a...

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Stupid is as stupid does – the story of the CFMEU and GetUp!

By Gavin Atkins Wed, Nov 30, 2011 3:57AM UTC View Comments

Last year, Australia’s Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union made the largest donation that the left-wing activist group GetUp! has ever been willing to admit to so far – a cool $1.12 million. The money was then used in television advertising that did its darnedest to slur Tony Abbott – and GetUp! has been living...

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GetUp’s facade exposed by carbon protest failure

By Gavin Atkins Sat, Nov 12, 2011 10:28AM UTC View Comments

They say you can find anything on the internet – but if you can find any information about the number of buses activist group Getup! managed to fill with supporters for Tuesday’s passing of the carbon tax legislation, you are doing much better than me. You can be sure this can only mean one thing...

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