Last week, two radical environmental organisations committed to halting Australian coal-mining helped launch an operation to stop the development of two coal-mines in central Queensland. Both organisations were involved in producing the recently leaked Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom draft strategy document. In a media release dated March 22, the Queensland branch of the Wilderness Society announced that the anti-coal-mining campaign aims…

Gonski Report I Sir, Kevin Donnelly’s article on the Gonski report (News Weekly, March 17, 2012) highlights the great lie in the propaganda from government, teachers’ unions and other proponents aimed at taking funding from private schools and giving it to government schools. The secondary ideological purpose of these entities is to reduce private school student numbers. Government still provides to private sector…

UN culpability for Haiti’s cholera epidemic Since October 2010, cholera has killed more than 7,050 Haitians and sickened more than 531,000, or 5 per cent of the population. Lightning fast and virulent, it spread from here through every Haitian state, erupting into the world’s largest cholera epidemic despite a huge international mobilisation still dealing with the effects of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake. …