Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Australia, Jul 6 (IPS) – Devina Celeste, 50, waits in a queue of about 40 people at the neighbourhood centre in the Australian inner-city suburb of Newtown for the only hot meal she will get on this cold winter night. The queue, 40 percent of [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Australia Backflips on Climate Action
May 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Australia, May 10, 2010 (IPS) – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party has made much of its plans to tackle climate change even before it came to power with victory in the country’s 2007 election. Little wonder, then, that the government has faced [...]
POLITICS: East Timor-Australia Urged to Dialogue Over Gas Fields
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Matt Crook DILI, May 6, 2010 (IPS) – The prickly issue of where to pipe and process gas from the Timor Sea between Australia and East Timor must be resolved through open dialogue, say members of civil society in East Timor. "Don’t keep it deadlocked – it will [...]
AUSTRALIA: For Some Refugees, Not Yet the Land of ‘Fair Go’
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Jessie Boylan MELBOURNE, Australia, May 6, 2010 (IPS) – After nearly 10 years of living in Australia, Sri Lanka-born Ramesh Fernandez is convinced nothing much has changed for refugees in the land of the ‘fair go’. A Tamil who fled his homeland on a boat in 2001, Fernandez [...]
AUSTRALIA/SRI LANKA: Untangling the Knotty Issue of Human Smuggling
November 13, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Nov 13 (IPS) – It is a story that spans three islands, across the breadth of the Indian Ocean. That is, of hundreds of boat people sailing the rough seas in unseaworthy vessels, risking life and limb in their desperate attempt at a new lease [...]
ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge
November 2, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Nov 2 (IPS) – As the world focuses on the impact of climate change, little attention is being paid to yet another environmental bane: increasing contamination of air, water and soil. The combined effects of this environmental scourge have contributed to global epidemics of cancers, [...]
AVOID DEMONISING AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY
June 26, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites Friday, June 26, 2009 B.RAMAN Recurring incidents of violence by individual elements against Indian students in Australia have understandably given rise to concern in India as well as in the Indian student community in Australia about the physical security of the Indian students. This is a matter which needs the well-considered [...]
