Our right to safe water

21 Jun 2012 | Current safeguards around CSG extraction are inadequate, says Jennifer Elliott — and contami ...  

Ritual animal slaughter goes mainstream

26 Apr 2012 | Legal loopholes mean you could be, and probably are, inadvertently buying meat coming from animals ...  

Live export animals suffering and dying

13 Apr 2012 | In a shocking demonstration of non-compliance with regulations, 478 cattle and sheep suffered and ...  

Uniting for Gippsland not Gasland

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

Turning CSG confrontation into consultation

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

Ban Chinese food and medicine imports

10 Feb 2012 | "The Chinese Government and authorities are unable to monitor, supervise or administer and regu ...  

Farmers have the right to choose wind

24 Jan 2012 | [caption id="attachment_13315" align="alignright" caption="by Kane Thornton"][/caption] Anti-wind ...  

Combating child slavery in coffee and chocolate trade

22 Jan 2012 | Much of the labour used to produce the world’s chocolate and coffee comes from child slaves ...  

Monsanto to face biopiracy charges in India

19 Jan 2012 | According to an article published this month in the journal 'Nature Biotechnology', Monsanto is ...  

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 ...  

The misery of foreign farming in Africa

10 Nov 2011 | Farming cash crops such as coffee and sugar for Western importers has brought misery upon Africa ...  

CSG and the unresearched risk to Australia's water

7 Nov 2011 | When it comes to CSG extraction and threats to our groundwater systems, Professor Bryce Kelly  ...  

New mining projects threaten Queensland’s food bowl

25 Sep 2011 |   It’s Carnival of Flowers time but, with worries over land security as the result ...  

Ludwig deserves praise for resumption of Indonesian live cattle trade

15 Jul 2011 | Environment correspondent Sandi Keane says that, despite the popular media portrayal, Federal ...  

The Silence of the Cows

9 Jun 2011 | ...and Horse-trading in Human Meat [caption id="attachment_7825" align="alignright" captio ...  

Liar, liar, Australiar

7 Jun 2011 | [caption id="attachment_7677" align="alignleft" width="150"] by Tess Lawrence[/caption] Cont ...