A flesh-eating bacteria related to cholera has terrified beach goers along the Southern US coast as reports of amputated limbs and deaths from the previously rare infection begin to mount. The Vibrio Vulnificis bacteria is infects humans who eat infected shellfish or who expose cuts and abrasions to infected water. It is most common after Continue Reading →
C anada announced yesterday that it will phase out all coal fired electricity generation by 2030. Coal is the dirtiest of the fossil fuels producing over three tonnes of carbon dioxide for every tonne of coal burned. Canada has also announced a carbon price commencing in two years with an eighty percent reduction target by Continue Reading →
West End community groups and Greens councillor Jonathon Sri will blockade the West Village development at the old Peter’s Ice Cream factory on Mollison and Boundary Street West End, starting today Wednesday 23rd November. The blockade protests the decision of the deputy premier, Jackie Trad, to allow the developers to build 20 storey towers over Continue Reading →
Police from 20 different forces across the USA who have converged on Standing Rock today used water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a group of protestors on a bridge. 17 protestors were taken to hospital, some with hypothermia as a result of being soaked in sub-freezing temperatures. The protestors were trying Continue Reading →
Robin Taubenfeld and other protestors handed out cake and leaflets at the annual general meeting of BHP in Brisbane this morning. Police and security guards tried to move protestors on but Ms Taubenfeld successfully argued that the Brisbane Convention and Entertainment Centre is public space and there is nothing illegal about offering cake, tea and Continue Reading →
A speech by the Member for Pumicestone, Rick Williams, demanding an apology to the descendants of 62,000 enslaved Pacific Islanders has inspired Queenslanders to petition Parliament to issue a formal apology. The practice of capturing islanders and transporting them to Queensland as slaves on cane farms and coastal building projects was known as “black birding”. Continue Reading →