Mining doom heralds clean energy boom for Australia

22 Sep 2012 | With Australia's resources boom looking like it may be over, Ruth Forsythe explains why the time ...  

Tony Burke beats Campbell Newman in Alpha Coal battle

27 Aug 2012 | Picking who is right in political disputes is often hard but this one is different, writes Chris ...  

Lies, damned lies and Olympic Dam sized lies

23 Aug 2012 | Managing editor David Donovan reports on Tony Abbott’s “dishonest, self-interested fear ...  

Gina Rinehart’s battle against climate change science

29 Jun 2012 | Gina Rinehart has revealed that she wants to use her substantial stakes in two leading Australian ...  

Uniting for Gippsland not Gasland

11 Apr 2012 | A new alliance of ten community groups looks to challenge the Victorian Baillieu Government&rsq ...  

How Canada exports death and disease to the developing world

9 Apr 2012 | Even though asbestos is banned in over 50 countries, Canada continues to block international ...  

Turning CSG confrontation into consultation

19 Mar 2012 |   Dr Ted Christie explains how it is possible to channel the public protest and angry ...  

More of the wit and wisdom of Iona Mineshaft

16 Mar 2012 | Graham Jackson has a collection of letters written the larger than life mining heiress Iona ...  

Australian National Endangered Treasures

14 Mar 2012 | Following Clive Palmer’s Australian National Living Treasure Award on March 4, by March 8 we ...  

Testing the vision of Clive Palmer and Wayne Swan

7 Mar 2012 | When it comes to comparing the visions of democracy, expressed in print recently by the Treasurer ...  

The Landscape Guardians and the Waubra Foundation

6 Mar 2012 | This is the third part of Independent Australia environment editor Sandi Keane’s trilogy on ...  

Tax the billionaires

8 Feb 2012 | Billionaires like Clive Palmer and Gina Rinehart should start to pull their weight, says Shaun ...  

TOP 10 IA STORIES OF 2011 Is it too late to Lock the Gate on Coal Seam Gas?

27 Dec 2011 | TOP 10 IA STORIES OF 2011 Coal seam gas mining developed increasing heat in the Australian ...  

Plimer and Howard ape creationists

14 Dec 2011 | The mining lobby, with a helping hand from long-time chief climate change action roadblock, former ...  

Woodside Kimberley gas hub is Exploitation Inc

6 Dec 2011 | The Western Australian Supreme Court today quashed the State Government's gas hub land grab at ...  

ALP National Conference: Where was the arms control debate over uranium exports to India?

6 Dec 2011 | On selling uranium to India, NAJ Taylor says "...it is a grave error to cite India’s nuclear ...  

Queensland Government wants CSG come hell or high water

3 Dec 2011 | The Queensland Government seeks to massively expand CSG development in Queensland despite real ...  

Senate Report recommends tighter controls on Coal Seam Gas

1 Dec 2011 | Senator Bill Heffernan, the Chairman of the Senate Standing References Committee on Rural Affairs ...