Tag: mining
Queensland has an important network of private conservation areas, but they’re dangerously exposed to mining
Tarcutta Hills Reserve. Bush Heritage Australia, Author provided
Australia has the world’s largest network of privately owned conservation areas that protect a range of rare wildlife, from bilbies to endangered fish.
There...
‘A dam has been breached’: a COVID crisis on our doorstep shows how little we pay attention to PNG
Until last week, it did not occur to most Australians to ask themselves how our nearest neighbours in Papua New Guinea were faring with...
‘Destruction by a thousand cuts’: the relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape
Picture: Alan Porritt/AAP
Just as the parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters was reconvening in Canberra, another culturally significant site was damaged at...
A major coal mine expansion was knocked back Friday, but where’s the line in the sand?
CLIMATE CAMP 09
An independent expert panel yesterday rejected a proposal to expand the operations of the Dendrobium coal mine under Sydney’s drinking water catchment. This is a...
Sunday essay: masters of the future or heirs of the past? Mining, history and Indigenous ownership
A haulage truck at Rio Tinto’s Weipa operations in northern Queensland. AAP/Rio Tinto, Joanne O'Keeffe
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article...
Juukan Gorge inquiry puts Rio Tinto on notice, but without drastic reforms, it could happen again
Picture: RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/AAP
On the eve of Reconciliation Week this year, news broke that Rio Tinto had destroyed ancient rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia to expand one of its...