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Offshore gas rig Issue #2186

‘Our members are united’ – Offshore Alliance stands firm for workers

The Offshore Alliance – Australian Workers’ Union (AWU)/Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) – has applied to the Fair Work Commission for a Protected Action Ballot...

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Issue #2192

Cuba’s trillion-dollar potential

Years of brutal sanctions have limited Cuba’s exploitation of its huge mineral resource wealth. Potentially it has one of the greatest concentrations of undeveloped natural...

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Issue #2188

GREEN NOTES

The Indonesian province of West Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is a classic example of Marxist dependency theory, in which the region occupies...

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The Santos headquarters in Adelaide. Issue #2189

Fossil fuel freeloaders

As new polling shows majority of Australians support increasing taxes on the profits of large oil and gas corporations, one in three large fossil fuel...

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Cooking with gas. Issue #2186

Time to stop giving away gas

If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy! After all, that’s how politicians and the media describe the gas industry. The...

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Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline, near Dampier, Western Australia. Issue #2183

Tax profiteering gas companies

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has called on the federal government to immediately place a 25% war profits tax on all Australian gas exports. The...

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