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Photo: Part of the 5 kilometre, 2.8-metre `security’ fence in Darling Harbour in Sydney, erected for APEC. Photo: AP Related news stories: APEC Ghost town – audio slideshow Let us dissent – audio slideshow Shady character loses his lunch watching activists Foreign invasion, yet lots of room at the inns APEC: you’re not invited to Continue Reading →
Edmund Tadros, August 27, 2007 Sydney is about to host Australia’s most exclusive party. You’re paying for it but as the organisers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit and the state government made clear at the weekend, you are definitely not invited. In addition, the most important invitee has thrown the agenda for the $177 Continue Reading →
Sunanda Creagh, Urban Affairs Reporter, August 27, 2007 A GIANT banner saying "Cage Bush. Not Sydney" could be slung from the top of Town Hall, under a proposal to be voted on by the City of Sydney tonight. The Deputy Lord Mayor, Chris Harris, from the Greens, has called on councillors to support his motion Continue Reading →
Public and legal pressure from the Hobbits of the Shire have forced Tweed Council Administrators to announce a MORATORIUM on all DA’s for Hastings Point.
While no further developments will be considered by the Tweed Council until a long overdue report is completed – with full community consultation – about the future of Hastings Point, the big question now is WILL THE STATE MINISTER for PLANNING do the same?
The problem now faced by villagers is that a large portion of estuarine wetland which was ’grabbed’ by developers 30 years ago and has been the focus of a major community battle ever since – the original Battle of Hastings – is now before the Minister for the NSW Department of Planning – where all designated ’Wetland’ is now directed for consideration.
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| President Bush dramatically stepped up his war of words with the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadineja |
On Tuesday, President Bush dramatically stepped up his war of words with the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom the US government accuses of overseeing a covert programme to develop nuclear weapons. In a speech to war veterans, Mr Bush said: "Iran’s active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust."
He went on to condemn Iranian meddling in Iraq, where America increasingly blames the deaths of its soldiers on Iranian bombs and missiles. Mr Bush made clear that he had authorised military commanders to confront "Iran’s murderous activities".
This was widely taken to mean that he is set on a confrontation with Iran that will culminate in a bombing campaign to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities, just as Israel bombed Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor in 1981.
In response to a parliamentary question Western Australia’s Minister for Water Resources, John Kobelke, justified Western Australia’s commissioning of another desalination plant to provide Perth;s drinking water. He said that the problem faced by Western Australia is that many storage facilities provided non-potable water to the mining and industry sectors.
He provided the following table with the most up to date information on the State’s major dams (over 10,000ML capacity) used for either potable or irrigation purposes, on 14 August 2007 to back up the claims.