The story behind the corporation that owns the Beverley uranium mine in north-east South Australia is scarcely believable.
Heathgate Resources 鈥 a 100%-owned subsidiary of General Atomics (GA) 鈥 owns and operates Beverley and has a stake in the adjacent Beverley Four Mile mine. Over the years, GA CEO Neal Blue has had in oil, Predator drones, uranium mining, nuclear reactors, cocoa, bananas and real estate.
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Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) Premier Campbell Newman said Queensland to jobs and public spending. This, presumably, is in much the same way you'd be thankful if you had crossed a mafia don and he only broke your legs.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard鈥檚 鈥渆xpert panel鈥 on refugee policy will hand over its findings on how to 鈥渟top the boats鈥 and end the parliamentary 鈥渄eadlock鈥 over offshore processing when parliament begins sitting again next week.
After an asylum boat tragedy that killed 90 people in June, the three-member panel, headed by former defence chief Angus Houston, on the 鈥渂est way forward for Australia to prevent asylum seekers risking their lives鈥 considering 鈥淎ustralia鈥檚 right to maintain its borders鈥.
If your home was going to be demolished in 15 minutes, what would you save? Facing a life of poverty, would you salvage valuables? Or, would you retrieve sentimental items, knowing that every day your people lose pieces of their ancient history and culture? For Israeli 鈥渞efusenik鈥 Sahar Vardi, watching Palestinians being forced to make this decision at gunpoint just a few kilometres from her own home changed her life.
NASA scientist James Hansen was in an August 3聽blunt about the future Washington Post聽 article: 鈥淲hen I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988, I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet.
What's in a name? Everything, for Aboriginal rapper Eskatology. His music has his name written all over it. Eskatology, also known as 26-year-old South Australian Jonathan Stier, first came across the term "eschatology" through studying religion. "Religion does play a part in my life, and I was doing a bit of religious studying and came across this word and it intrigued me," he tells 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
The list below was posted by independent journalist Juan Cole on his .
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1. White terrorists are called 鈥済unmen鈥. What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn鈥檛 that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, 鈥渢errorists鈥.
2. White terrorists are 鈥渢roubled loners鈥. Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.
The ferries that ply the river west of Sydney Harbour bear the names of Australia's world champion sportswomen. They include the Olympic swimming gold-medalists Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould, and runners Betty Cuthbert and Marjorie Jackson.
The Sea Shepherd boat the Steve Irwin docked in Broome on August 6 to join community protests against the $30 billion gas hub proposed for James Price Point, in Western Australia鈥檚 Kimberley region.
Sea Shepherd, a marine conservation organisation, said it undertook the trip as a habitat and feeding ground for humpback whales, dolphins and turtles鈥.
Wade Michael Page, a Nazi white supremacist, entered a Sikh temple in a town near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 5 and opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol, killing six and wounding three others.
Cuba solidarity activists, members of Australia鈥檚 Latin American community and leftists from around the country will take part in a two-day conference in Sydney to pay homage to Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.
Video messages of support for Fidel from renowned leftist personalities will be screened alongside a full agenda of talks focused on Castro鈥檚 ideas, thoughts and legacy for the 21st century.
Tasmanian logging company Gunns now doubts its $3 billion pulp mill, planned for the Tamar Valley, will ever be built. The company told the Australian Securities Exchange on August 6 that its debts were somewhere between $50 million and $150 million.
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