The Guardian • mining
Issue #2063
Space War?
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) between the United States and the Soviet Union sought all nations to avoid any future “land grab” leading to...
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Issue #2102
Papua New Guinea: disaster and the hand of capital
The tragic loss of life in the landslide in Papua New Guinea has shown just how pitiably inadequate is the level of infrastructure in the...
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Issue #2101
Australian companies exploit Ecuador’s Indigenous Lands
By 2022 Australian companies produced 40 per cent of the world’s metal resources, including South America’s. Between 2016 and 2017 Ecuador opened up a third...
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Issue #2036
Wine isn’t the only thing that’s red in the Hunter Region
After nearly a year of preparation and political activity, local workers have re-established what was formerly known as the Newcastle branch of the CPA. Instead...
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Issue #2113
Genocide in Honduras
Since the 2009 military coup d’état against President Manuel Zelaya, structural racism, the narcotics trade, tourist development, mining, neoliberal economic policies, and right-wing governments have...
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Issue #1990
Protest against uranium mine proposal – Mulga Rock, WA
On Friday, 26th November, fifty anti-uranium mining protesters, including traditional owners, attended a rally outside the headquarters of Vimy Resources in South Perth.
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Issue #2111
Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics and Cultures
Pro-independence Kanak political parties have called New Caledonia la Kanaky since the 1980s. It comes from the ethnic name of the indigenous Melanesian Kanak people,...
Read moreHarassed women mineworkers shouldn’t have to choose between justice and their job
Shocking reports of sexual harassment and assault aired on the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes program this week are the tip of the iceberg and would...
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Issue #2134
Aluminium, and beyond
When Trump launched his trade war, some nations responded with threats of retaliation. Others sought to find ways to ‘deal ‘with the most powerful economy...
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Issue #2054
The right to protest
As capitalism and its extractivist resource corporations continue exploiting the last portions of carbon from this earth and putting it into the atmosphere to keep...
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Issue #2112
GREEN NOTES
After more than 4 decades of struggle the Mirarr traditional owners have won a ban on mining of Jabiluka uranium deposits. The Northern Territory government,...
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Issue #2104
Australian coal: the state of play
The recent Federal Budget has highlighted the significance of the mining industry, especially coal, to the Australian economy. Australia has the third largest reserves of...
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Issue #2031
The legacy of asbestos mining at Wittenoom
“If the sugar refining company won’t come to my rescue/Who’s going to save me?” So goes the song Blue Sky Mine by Australian band Midnight...
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Issue #2042
“Hold mining companies to account”
Last week two mineworkers, Dylan Langridge and Trevor Davis, were killed at work at the Dugald River zinc mine in north-west Queensland. Just prior to...
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Issue #2193
HALF THE SKY
Women working in Australian FIFO (Fly In Fly Out) mining and oil and gas operations have had a wide range of experiences, from enjoying the...
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Issue #2156
GLOBAL BRIEFS
Israel: The Freedom Flotilla ship Handala has been illegally intercepted by Israeli military forces in international waters. Pre-recorded messages from the crew prepared in anticipation...
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Issue #2060
Survivors take on big coal
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action have praised environmental justice groups for launching a fresh Federal Court challenge, arguing that the Environment Minister can and must...
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Issue #2051
Guatemala’s Indigenous communities take on the mining TNCs
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, announced in 2020, that the production of Tesla electric car batteries required an exponential need for nickel, cobalt, lithium,...
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Issue #2044
GREEN NOTES
Anna Pha Last month Labor’s minister for environmental destruction, Tanya Plibersek, quietly granted Santos a licence to open 116 new coal seam gas wells in...
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Issue #2046
DINGO
The construction union, the CFMEU, has urged the Albanese government to ramp up its ambition on the Housing Australia Future Fund, which needs more investment...
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Issue #2060
DINGO
The Queensland Palaszczuk government’s refusal to back down over its deeply unpopular approval of Blue Energy’s Central Queensland gasfield shows it cares neither for communities,...
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Issue #2064
DINGO
A new political force uniting left and progressive parties and other organisations with a clear pro-people agenda is needed urgently. The Communist Party is convinced...
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Issue #2120
Climate terrorism in South America
The Amazon basin, with an area greater than Australia, has been receiving less rainfall than usual, over the period June to November. In 2023 water...
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Issue #2061
Common cause
In 2014 mining magnate Andrew Forrest presented the Abbott Coalition government with “Creating Parity,” a government-commissioned report that was a recipe for wiping out Native...
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Issue #2071
DINGO
Mining transnational BHP, at one time known under the jolly capitalist moniker of The Big Australian, has admitted to deducting annual leave from staff entitlements...
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Issue #2051
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SUDAN: Doctors Central Committee has reported that the number of people killed in clashes between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rose...
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Issue #2128
A look back at Eureka
In 1954, the 100th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade, the Communist Party of Australia published a portfolio of lino prints commemorating the event. The introduction...
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Issue #2111
DINGO
This week’s historic target of US aggression is British Guyana, 1953-64: For 11 years Britain and the United States went to great lengths to prevent...
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Issue #2077
DINGO
Climate action group Lock the Gate Alliance has accused the NSW Minns government of breaking an election promise by allowing BHP’s planned Mt Arthur expansion...
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Issue #2156
NSW: drinking water in danger
A multinational mining giant has recently announced plans to explore for coal under more areas of the Sydney and Illawarra drinking water catchment highlight how...
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Issue #2091
Workers’ lives at risk over asbestos secrecy
Unions have urged energy giant Esso to come clean on its plans to safely remove deadly asbestos from retired oil and gas platforms in the...
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Issue #2152
ISDS: Trade in corporate power
One of Clive Palmer’s companies is suing the Australian government for $300 billion over the West Australian government’s refusal to grant an iron ore mining...
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Issue #2164
Queensland: ‘Right out of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen playbook’
The Crisafulli LNP government of Queensland has been heavily criticised for its stand on issues from Native Title Disputes, rejecting Human Rights Act recommendations, to...
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Issue #2057
DINGO
A major survey conducted by McKell, the Transport Workers Union and TEACHO sheds light on the harsh reality faced by food delivery, rideshare, and AmazonFlex...
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Issue #2164
GREEN NOTES
Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) have detected significant methane emissions from potentially thousands of poorly sealed exploration holes drilled across Queensland. This is...
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Issue #2130
Mining corpsí colonial arrogance
“Rio-Glencore merger would create a copper powerhouse” ran a headline in the Sydney Morning Herald on 17 January, trumpeting yet another triumph in the drive...
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Issue #2183
Black Cockatoos: Sacrifices for Trump
US aluminium giant Alcoa has been granted permission by the federal government to continue clearing Western Australia’s Jarrah forests, despite past illegal practices, in part...
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Issue #2081
DINGO
Lock the Gate Alliance and Central Queensland conservationists have condemned the recommendation that Whitehaven’s Winchester South mega coal mine should be approved. The project will...
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Issue #2133
GREEN NOTES
The wildfires in Los Angeles, massive flooding in north Queensland, and floods in greater Sydney are a small taste of what lies ahead if governments...
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Issue #2080
Crying over pennies
While the Closing Loopholes Bill is not perfect, it would go some way to making sure that workers doing the same job would be paid...
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Issue #2092
EDITORIAL
“One man dead, another fighting for life.” That’s all the headlines said on Wednesday 13 March 2024. By the time you read this, the media...
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Issue #2195
DINGO
In response to Environment Minister Chris Bowen’s opening address at the Bonn Climate Change Conference, also called SB64, Shiva Gounden, Head of Pacific at Greenpeace...
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Issue #2127
The choices that Australia makes
If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Boorloo/Perth, Australia, you can look out over the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view....
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Issue #2150
DINGO
The Mining and Energy Union is deeply concerned about safety in Victoria’s aging coal plants, following a significant safety incident at Yallourn. Earlier this month...
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Issue #2119
Australian capitalist crisis
A quiet desperation is gripping Australia’s bourgeois economists and political leaders. The economy, virtually flatlining, is about to be hit with the effects of a...
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Issue #2179
DINGO
The federal government gave the green light to more than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat destruction last year, making it the worst 12-month period...
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Issue #2167
DINGO
600,000 people recently took to the streets of London for Palestine. A reassertion of solidarity with a people facing genocide. A rebuke to PM Keir...
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Issue #2208
Mineworkers rally in Mudgee
Glencore has flooded its Ulan Underground mine with out-of-town contractors while creating barely any new secure, permanent jobs for the Mudgee community. Figures obtained by...
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Issue #2179
Kevin Rudd and Jeffrey Epstein: the links
The latest release of the Epstein files has brought to light many dealings the billionaire child-abuser had with rich and powerful people in the US...
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Issue #2136
Australian mining company sues Greenland
In January 2025 former foreign minister, Julie Bishop, was hired to advise on the political and legal hurdles faced by the Australian mining company, Energy...
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Issue #2152
DINGO
The Australian Conservation Foundation says the CSIRO’s report Towards a state of the food system report for Australia, should inform a new approach to how...
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Issue #2170
Trigger backflip: ‘a deal for corporate profits’
The Albanese government is doing yet another backflip on policy. This time it relates to climate change – pretending to protect the environment and biodiversity...
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Issue #2170
DINGO
US attacks on boats allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker...
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Issue #2120
WA government introduces exorbitant fee to lodge mining objections
The WA government has announced that they are imposing a large fee of $430 for West Australians to lodge objections to mining proposals, which has...
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