Native Title boss quits because native title is stuffed!

The head of Australia’s native title agency says he is quitting his position because the system is too concerned with legal technicalities to provide real results.
Full story from ABC online  http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1871020.htm

First Post from Palm Island

I am writing this post from the contraversial Palm Island Police and citizens Youth Centre (P.C.Y.C), the only community access internet on the Island.  It was not until the PCYC was built that broadband internet came to Palm Island. 
I still have a number of technical hurdles to overcome, I still cant get photos up on [...]

Fire!

Bushfire is a very destructive thing, obviously.
As our forests burn around the nation we see on the T.V. images of destruction to homes, farms and of course animal habitat. Many people see, hear, smell and feel the fire as it comes into their neighborhoods. In this time of water [...]

Palm Island charges update

The following is a message distributed by ANTAR Qld.
for more info antarqld.org.au 
Dear friends,
After the announcement of the pathology reports on the death of Mulrunji, there were protests from the Islanders and the police station burned down.  A large police force was sent to the island and many many people were arrested and given very harsh bail [...]

Trees and stuff.

This week the “Landcare” organisation launched a program to enable farmers to be paid to plant trees by way of carbon trading.   This is, literally, a breath of fresh air as the way the carbon trading discussion has unfolded in Australia seems to be towards imposing a carbon tax on “clean coal” technology to subsidise [...]