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  Bogged down in the Australian Senate is a Bill that selects a farming area, Napandee, near Kimba, South Australia, as Australia’s national radioactive waste dump. If that Bill becomes law, that matter will be settled, and there will be no possibility of legal appeal against it. From a small close-knit community, in a top Australian wheat-growing area, Kimba has become a place of tension. In 2016, a farmer, Jeff Baldock, offered part of his land, Napandee, for the radioactive waste facilit...

Are we finally seeing action on Aboriginal water justice?   There’s a famous image from 1975 of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pouring red earth into the hands of Gurindji leader, Vincent Lingiari, as a symbolic gesture of returning land back to the Gurindji people. It’s a powerful image and represents an important turning point in Australian land rights policy — a point when the federal government finally started to acknowledge that this nation state has been built on stolen land and that...

Night work at the Carmichael coal mine, Queensland, Australia, in September 2020. Photo: Cameron Laird/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Wangan and Jagalingou people are an Aboriginal nation from central Queensland. Their country is part of Australia’s mythical dry and dusty outback. But as they know well, it’s also watered by the Doongmabulla Springs, whose waters bubble up to fill the Carmichael and Belyando rivers. For the Wangan and Jagalingou, the springs are a sacred place. “This ...

McARTHUR RIVER MINE Reporter Keira Jenkins travelled to Borroloola and the land nearly 100km south of Darwin on which mining giant Glencore’s McArthur River mine continues to make controversy, with traditional owners facing the poisoning of their water and wildlife. “It is like a garden to Aboriginal people,” said Garawa elder Jack Green, who is now too scared of lead poisoning to fish in the river. Locals say the lead and zinc mine has had an enormous impact and warn that even after it c...

For locals, the river and its banks are like a garden, having provided sustenance for generations. It also has a strong spiritual significance for the local people. Gudanji woman Josie Davey and her husband Jack Green, a Garawa man, used to fish along the banks of the river, not far from town. Now the couple say they’re too worried to fish in their usual spots. “All we know is that there could be something in this water,” Mr Green told The Point. “We had a meeting here one time and they...

Indigenous water groups, farmers demand more water for Darling-Baaka River, Menindee Lakes TueTuesday 16 The Darling, running dry. Print text only Cancel Indigenous groups and pastoralists took their water rights claims to the NSW Parliament today to argue for a bigger share for their communities and the environment in the Far West. Key points: Water is already short due to climate change and the over-allocation of water licences Irrigators say they are not to blame for low flows But getting th...

WA election: The MPs in line for a promotion in Mark McGowans cabinet reshuffle SunSunday 14 Roger Cook, Rita Saffioti and Sue Ellery are all in line for senior ministerial positions. ( Print text only Cancel With the celebrations out of the way at WA Labor headquarters, the jostling for cabinet positions is now well and truly on. After a few retirements, Premier Mark McGowan has some re-shuffling to do. Mr McGowan will soon announce who will take over as treasurer and Aboriginal affairs minist...

Pegmont Mines Limited (NSX:PMI) Annual Report - 31 December 2020 Annual Report - 31 December 2020Sydney, Mar 15, 2021 AEST (ABN Newswire) - During 2020, the main emphasis of Pegmont Mines Limiteds ( NSX:PMI) exploration was directed at the Canyon EPM 27345 costing $79,000 and the Mount Kelly Trend regional analysis; an area of known copper mineralisation associated with significant faults. The Canyon tenement is located between Mount Kelly and McLeod Hill copper deposits which are associated w...

Minister for Resources The Honourable Scott Stewart The Palaszczuk Government has given the green light to a new Surat and Bowen Basin project which will see more gas made available for the domestic market. Resources Minister Scott Stewart said energy company Santos has been granted an Authority to Prospect over a 764 square kilometre parcel of land located 65km east of Surat in the gas rich Bowen and Surat Basins. “We are serious about finding gas to keep power stations generating, stoves bu...

The Palaszczuk government has granted authority to prospect for gas on 764 sqkm, securing the domestic market.