The descendants of Japanese pearl divers in the Torres Strait are coming together for Obon, Japan's day of the dead, to remember the contribution of their forebears to an industry that claimed hundreds of lives.
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Multinational mining giant Rio Tinto has agreed to fund an independent assessment of the human rights and environmental impacts of its former Panguna copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea’s autonomous region of Bougainville.
Rio Tinto abandoned the mine in 1989 during a brutal civil conflict on Bougainville and now no longer holds a stake after controversially divesting its shareholding to the PNG and Bougainville governments in 2016, rejecting corporate responsibility for environmental damage.
The mining agreement, negotiated by Rio Tinto with the Australian government in the 1960s, when PNG was a colony, did not include significant environmental regulations or liability for mine site rehabilitation.
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Queensland s 30-year-old vilification and hate crime laws are coming under the microscope following a campaign by concerned multicultural community groups.
A parliamentary inquiry is currently looking at a review of the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act, with advocates calling for more clearly defined laws and tougher penalties for hate crimes.
Queenslanders have been asked to share their stories, confidentially if needed, before the submission deadline on 12 July.
A group of 20 non-profit organisations, the Cohesive Communities Coalition (CCC), lobbied the state government for the inquiry in light of more targeted attacks in part attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Christchurch mosque massacre.