Australia

Australians Shut Down Three Coal Ports Protesting COP21

December 10, 2015 Staff, www.frontlineaction.org Resist! Australia, COP21, Protests

By Staff of Frontline Action - Protestors shut down three East Coast coal ports as Paris talks fail to deliver climate justice. Protestors join call for global moratorium on coal mines. (SYDNEY)– In the last days of the landmark climate change summit in Paris, and with another global heat record broken this year, activists have today simultaneously shut down operations at three coal ports on the East Coast. Protestors are demanding Australia commit to a moratorium on new coal mines as part of its efforts to prevent dangerous levels of global warming and climate change.

Carbon Inequality: Rich Profit & Pollute, Poor Suffer

December 3, 2015 Staff, www.facebook.com Educate! Australia, Climate Change, Protests

By Staff of 350.org Australia - Peoples Parliament - Putting People ahead of PollutersToday, 300 inspiring Australians peacefully occupied Parliament House, calling on politicians to put people ahead of the big polluters in Paris. #PeoplesParliament

Snowden & Allies Call On Australians To Resist New Surveillance Law

October 14, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Australia, Snowden

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - As new controversial metadata laws went into effect in Australia on Tuesday, whistleblower Edward Snowden took to Twitter to warn the country's residents about the privacy violations that come along with the legislation. The new laws require Australian telecommunications companies and internet service providers (ISPs) to store user metadata—like phone records and IP addresses—for two years, during which time it may be accessed by law enforcement without a warrant. Civil liberties and internet freedom groups have criticized the laws as invasive and unconstitutional.

Protests Close Four Factories Owned By Israeli Arms Firm Elbit

July 8, 2015 Hilary Aked, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Australia, Drones, Israel, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

By Hilary Aked in Electronic Intifada - Protesters today shut down four different factories owned by Israel’s biggest arms company, Elbit Systems. The protests mark the one-year anniversary of the 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza. Police issued an injunction against protests at one of three UK sites, a drone engine factory near Shenstone, Staffordshire. Despite this, a number of activists have been locked-on atUAV Engines Limited (UEL) since early this morning, blocking the road and entrance to the factory. Hundreds of Palestine solidarity campaigners are supporting them. Police have made at least 10 arrests. Also in the UK, production has been halted at Elbit’s Elite KL factory in Tamworth, Staffordshire. A third Elbit-owned factory called Instro Precision in Broadstairs, Kent, has also been shut down. Activists are protesting on the roof of both factories.

Sydney Protests Against WA Remote Community Closures

June 29, 2015 Calla Wahlquist, www.theguardian.com Resist! Aboriginal Rights, Australia, Indigenous Peoples, Solidarity

By Calla Wahlquist in The Guardian - A protest against the closure of remote Aboriginal communities blocked streets in central Sydney on Sunday, as about 600 people marched against the Western Australian government’s plans to wind back support for communities it deems aren’t viable. The protest began at Town Hall at 1pm on Sunday and moved toward The Block in Redfern, closing George, Lee, Regent and Lawson Streets on the way. It’s the third national call to action and the sixth time protests have shut down an Australian capital city in protest against the plan to overhaul funding to the state’s 247 remote Aboriginal communities, which the premier, Colin Barnett, has said will result in “significantly fewer” homelands communities remaining open.

#SOSBlakAustralia: Global Actions To Save Indigenous Communities

June 25, 2015 Mitch Torres, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Australia, Displacement, Indigenous Rights, Racism

By Mitch Torres of SOSBlakAustralia. Australia - Fifteen weeks after Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s “lifestyle choices” comment and WA Premier Colin Barnet’s announced plans to close up to 150 Western Australian communities, a wave of actions calling for a halt to community closures have been taking place worldwide, with a reach of over 12 million people from all walks of life. Though the protests have made state and federal governments tone down their rhetoric, new plans show that their nation-wide agenda remains the same: the steady winding back of Indigenous services and community and cultural protections, while paving the way to reap resources from Aboriginal land through measures like the $5 billion “Northern Frontier” plan.

Challenging Australia’s Refugee Narrative

June 25, 2015 Janni Blakarly, www.aljazeera.com Organize! Australia, Indonesia, Refugee

By Janni Blakarly in Al Jazeera - At a desk amid the stacked boxes and clutter sits Ramesh Fernandez, the founder of RISE: Refugees Survivors and Ex-Detainees, an organisation that provides services to refugees and advocates for policy change. Fernandez is a passionate man who talks slowly but with purpose. He fled Sri Lanka as a political refugee in 2001. After a harrowing 15-day boat journey to Australia, he spent three years in some of the country's most infamous immigration detention centres on remote islands and on the mainland. Fernandez said as former refugees, they bring a unique perspective to the work providing services such as housing, material needs, and language support to those who have recently arrived. "We have been through the settlement process, been through crossing borders. We know what sort of projects are needed and how they are going to impact the community. We don't have focus groups because this is our lived experience," he said.

300 Indigenous Protesters Stage Brisbane City Hall Sit-In

May 5, 2015 Tony Moore, www.brisbanetimes.com.au Resist! Australia, indigenous

Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George Square on Saturday after indigenous groups under the banner SOS Blak Australia took to the streets of Melbourne and Sydney to protest problems in indigenous communities. A person familiar with the protest groups said the protests were organised on Facebook and Twitter and attracted 10,000 people in Melbourne and 3000 in Brisbane. "It is indigenous groups around the country all based around the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western Australia and possibly Southern Australia," the protester said.

Australia Again Wages War On Its Own People

April 25, 2015 John Pilger, www.truth-out.org Educate! Aboriginal Rights, Australia, Genocide

Australia has again declared war on its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa. Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion-dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford to "support" the homelands. Vulnerable populations, already denied the basic services most Australians take for granted, are on notice of dispossession without consultation, and eviction at gunpoint. Yet again, Aboriginal leaders have warned of "a new generation of displaced people" and "cultural genocide."

Protesters Gatecrash Exhibition Launch Over ‘Stolen Culture’

April 22, 2015 BP or Not BP, www.bp-or-not-bp.org Resist! Australia, culture, indigenous, Museum, Oil & Gas, United Kingdom (UK)

At 10.30am this morning the official media launch of the British Museum’s new BP-sponsored exhibition, “Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation”, was interrupted by an unexpected theatrical protest. A group of “actorvists” from BP or not BP?, dressed as robbers in striped T-shirts and eyemasks, temporarily blocked the exhibition entrance with a banner reading “Stolen Land, Stolen Culture, Stolen Climate”and read out quotes from Aboriginal leaders and activists, in front of a crowd of journalists waiting to get in. The protest highlighted concerns that the British legacy of taking Aboriginal land, objects and resources without permission continues today and is perpetuated by elements of the exhibition and by its sponsor, BP.

Australians Protest Forced Indigenous Community Closures

April 12, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Australia, Gentrification, Housing, Indigenous Rights

Thousands of protesters rallied in Australia's two largest cities Friday against government plans to forcefully shut down Indigenous communities. Indigenous elder and activist Jenny Munro said the rallies were a “call to arms” to all Australians. “This is about the community being made aware about the truth of what goes on in this country,” she told progressive news website New Matilda. Munro joined thousands of other protesters in Sydney who marched from Belmore Park to the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy. In a statement issued online, march organizers said they were both frustrated by plans to redevelop the Block – a chunk of the suburb of Redfern earmarked for affordable Indigenous housing. Activists say the very organization charged with providing affordable housing – the Aboriginal Housing Authority (AHC) – is now trying to gentrify the area with commercial office blocks and student accommodation at the expense of Indigenous residents.

Fracking Banned For 5 years By Tasmanian Government

March 1, 2015 Stephen Smiley / ABC, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Australia, Energy, Environment, Fracking

The Tasmanian Government will ban the controversial mining practice known as fracking for another five years. Fracking involves injecting liquid at high pressure into underground rocks to extract oil or gas, and the practice has sparked controversy in New South Wales and Queensland. Tasmanian Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff, who declared a one-year fracking moratorium in March 2014, considered 155 submissions on the subject. Mr Rockliff said there was uncertainty around fracking, and his decision would “protect Tasmania’s reputation for producing fresh, premium and safe produce”. “There is considerable concern around the potential negative impacts of fracking, particularly within our rural communities and farming families who rely so heavily on our global reputation for producing premium and safe products,” he said.

G20 Climate Change Protesters Bury Heads In Sand (PHOTOS)

November 14, 2014 Russian Times, www.rt.com Resist! Australia, Climate Change

Hundreds of protesters buried their heads in the sand of Australia’s most famous beach in a climate change demonstration. They wanted to send a message to Aussie PM Tony Abbott and G20 leaders ahead of the 2014 summit. About 400 people gathered Bondi Beach, a popular beach near Sydney, for the event dubbed Bondi Salutes G20, aiming to raise questions about climate change. They dug holes in the sand, plunged their bodies in head first and stayed there for several minutes. Some of them even managed to perform handstands with their heads in the sand. “You have your head in the sand on climate change,” said the organizers from 350.org Australia group, addressing Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

The Front Line Of Climate Change Is Here And Now

October 26, 2014 Kaio Tiira Taulu, www.ipsnews.net Resist! Australia, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights

The fate of my country rests in your hands: that was the message which Ian Fry, representing Tuvalu gave at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen five years ago. This is also the message that the Pacific Climate Warriors have come to Australia to bring. We have come here, representatives of 12 different Pacific island nations, which are home to 10 million people, to ask the people of Australia to reject plans to double Australia’s exports of coal and to become the biggest exporter of gas in the world. We want Australia (and other industrialised countries which also rely on the burning and extraction of fossil fuels) to understand that for every kilo of coal which they dig, or every gas well they make, there is someone in the islands who is losing their home.

Pacific Climate Change Warriors Block World’s Largest Coal Port

October 21, 2014 Lyndal Rowlands, www.ipsnews.net Resist! Australia, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Water

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 2014 (IPS) - Climate Change Warriors from 12 Pacific Island nations paddled canoes into the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle, Australia, Friday to bring attention to their grave fears about the consequences of climate change on their home countries. The 30 warriors joined a flotilla of hundreds of Australians in kayaks and on surfboards to delay eight of the 12 shipsscheduled to pass through the port during the nine-hour blockade, which was organised with support from the U.S.-based environmental group 350.org. "Fifteen years ago, when I was going to school, you could walk in a straight line. Now you have to walk in a crooked line because the beach has eroded away." -- Mikaele Maiava

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