Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Green activists, take note – for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity covering an area twice the size of Sydney in order to replace Australia’s indigenous inexpensive coal-fired power plants [...]
Uphill Battle to Save Australians From Execution
June 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Jun 23, 2011 (IPS) – Any Australian government efforts to have two of its citizens spared from the death penalty in Indonesia have been made more difficult by past refusals to intervene on behalf of three Indonesian Islamists in the lead-up to their [...]
Australia Set to Play Crucial Role in Asia-Pacific
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Devinder Kumar IDN-InDepth NewsReport NEW DELHI (IDN) – As the world’s axis pivots from West to East, and concerns grow over China, Australia is emerging as "a highly attractive partner" of the United States, says a new report, adding that due to its strong ties with [...]
WIKILEAKS: Australians Call For Legislation to Protect Whistleblowers
March 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – Some Australians are convinced their government is sharing intelligence information with foreign powers about citizens implicated by documents released by Wikileaks. The government’s refusal to acknowledge any hand in the case against Wikileaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange has earned [...]
AUSTRALIA: Campaign Continues for Parliamentary Seats for Aborigines
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – Ken Wyatt stood, draped in a traditional kangaroo-skin shroud. In a voice wavering at times with emotion, the only indigenous Australian ever elected to this nation’s lower house of Parliament presented his inaugural address. Referring to the [...]
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Export’ Asylum Centres
October 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) – As the Australian government steps up its efforts to establish a regional processing centre for asylum seekers in East Timor, refugee advocates remain watchful for signs that any deal could result in the involuntary removal from Australia [...]
Aboriginal Town Misses Out On the Mining Bonanza
September 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Neena Bhandari IDN-InDepth NewsFeature ROEBOURNE / Western Australia (IDN) – Allery Sandy, 55, is humming and painting the story of the Pilbara landscape, one of the most resource rich regions in Australia. Her canvas is resplendent with colour depicting rivers, flowers, blue gum and open scrub land [...]
DEVELOPMENT-AUSTRALIA: It’s Not Just About More, But Better, Aid
August 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Aug 19, 2010 (IPS) – Australia’s foreign aid budget is likely to double by 2015, but civil society groups say this is far from enough if it is to keep to its "fair share" of commitments to poorer countries. In fact, they would like [...]
AUSTRALIA: Compensation Isn’t Justice in Aboriginal Death – Critics
August 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) – Late on a hot summer morning in January 2008, 46-year-old Aboriginal elder Mr Ward climbed into the back of a prisoner transport van for the 360- kilometre, four-hour journey from the small Western Australian goldfields town of [...]
AUSTRALIA: Enough of Uranium Mining, Say Aboriginal Communities
August 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jessie Boylan KALGOORLIE-BOULDER, Australia, Aug 9, 2010 (IPS) – As a mining giant prepares to open a major uranium mining site in Western Australia next year, the clamour for the state to once more ban mining of the radioactive mineral has become louder. In fact, the Wongatha [...]
