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Refugee groups plan national protest

This statement was released by the Refugee Rights Network on January 30. *** Refugee rights groups across Australia will be聽converging聽on the remote Yongah Hill detention centre in Perth on the long weekend of April 25 to 28. We will protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in hellholes such as Yongah Hill and the offshore processing of refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.

Burke told to stop coal expansion

Front Line Action on Coal released this statement on January 30. *** Front Line Action on Coal has hit Whitehaven鈥檚 Tarrawonga mine and federal environment minister Tony Burke鈥檚 office in Roseland with simultaneous actions, unfurling huge banners that read: 鈥淭he Burke stops here鈥. 聽 The banners call on the Federal Environment Minister to reject coal expansions that would decimate the Leard Forest. 聽

Enviro group to sell Tas forests to timber giant customers

This statement was released by the Huon Valley Environment Centre on January 23. Click for more information. *** The Wilderness Society today announced it would be travelling to Japan accompanied by staff of the controversial [Malaysian] timber company Ta Ann, to lobby customers and secure its international markets.

John Pilger: The untold US invasion of Africa

A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media. The invasion has almost nothing to do with 鈥淚slamism鈥, and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources, notably minerals, and an accelerating rivalry with China. Unlike China, the US and its allies are prepared to use a degree of violence demonstrated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine.