Residents and supporters held a protest in Sydney Park on May 6, when contractors for the controversial $17 billion WestConnex tollway moved in to destroy more trees for the St Peters interchange.
The works are part of the project's push to remove more than 800 trees in Sydney Park, St Peters and Alexandria to allow widening of roads around the planned interchange.
Throughout the battle against the聽Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), the 聽US$3.78 billion pipeline that will carry about 500,000 barrels of oil a day, indigenous campaigners and supporters repeatedly warned聽it was聽not a question of聽if, but聽飞丑别苍听a breach would occur.
Now, before the pipeline is even fully operational, those warnings have come to fruition.
Labor has backed away from supporting Adani鈥檚 proposed Carmichael coalmine. Previously, Labor leader Bill Shorten said he supported the project 鈥渟o long as it stacks up鈥.
But on May 1, Labor鈥檚 energy and environment spokesperson Mark Butler warned it could hurt other coalmining areas. 鈥淚t will simply displace existing coal operations elsewhere in Australia,鈥 he told ABC News. 鈥淭here will be jobs lost elsewhere in Queensland or there will be jobs lost in the Hunter Valley.
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan & the Meaning of Honour
By Nicky Hager & Jon Stephenson
Potton &聽Burton, 2017聽
159 pages
In this well-written and powerful book, Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson present a barrage of evidence that 鈥淣ew Zealanders and their United States allies were involved in war crimes鈥 in Afghanistan in 2010.
The predominantly Tamil north and east of the island of Sri Lanka were brought to a 鈥渃omplete standstill鈥 on April 27, Tamilnet reported, as a result of a strike called by unions, civil groups and Tamil political parties.
It was supported by the Northern Provincial Council, which suspended its sitting. In some towns Muslims joined Tamils in the strike.
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has criticised ExxonMobil for its failure to respond to an oil spill on February 1 near its West Tuna oil platform, about 45 kilometres off the Victorian coast in Bass Strait.
Argentine hockey player Jessica Millaman, who had been prevented from playing field hockey by her provincial federation governing the sport, told EFE in an interview that she was happy about the recent decision by the Argentine Field Hockey Confederation (CAH) to allow transgender women to participate in women鈥檚 tourneys.
A report obtained by the ABC says coal prices will fall significantly and exports from Australia's biggest coal port will decline if Adani's Carmichael coalmine goes ahead.
If the coalmine went ahead, it would add 40 million tonnes a year to the market and global coal prices would fall by $3.80 to $65 a tonne.
Competition from the mine would reduce exports from the port of Newcastle by 11 to 12 million tonnes a year, which would lower the coal royalties NSW receives.
Residents, unionists and supporters protested outside the NSW Department of Housing office in Redfern on May 10, following the first forcible eviction of a resident of Millers Point public housing.
Peter Muller, a 57-year-old electrician, was out working, when police broke into his home and removed a number of supporters who were defending the house.
The latest released on May 9 shows voters disapprove of cuts to universities and higher student fees and fear the impact on young people.
It also showed Labor comfortably ahead of the Coalition on the two-party preferred vote by 54% to 46%.
The poll showed 56% disapprove of the government鈥檚 reduction in funding for higher education by $2.8bn and 60% disapprove of increasing student fees.
Assistant secretary of the Newcastle East Residents Group (NERG) Karen Read addressed Newcastle Trades Hall (Hunter Workers) recently about the supercars race scheduled to run through Newcastle鈥檚 historic East end in November.
Read fielded questions about residents needing to be credentialled to enter their own homes, the needs of the elderly, contacts with other groups such as Save Albert Park and the lengthy period of construction and dismantling of race infrastructure.
More than 600 local residents and traders rallied at the Preston Market in Melbourne鈥檚 north east on May 6 to tell Minister for Planning Richard Wynne to 鈥渃all in鈥 a development application for multi-storey apartments and a generic shopping centre that risks destroying their much-loved community hub.
The unexpectedly large turnout spilled out onto the road, prompting police to tell organiser Lori-anne Sharp, of the Save Preston Market group, to 鈥減ick a bigger site next time you call a protest鈥.