National News
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Adani may start digging within months
The government is being called on to stop the Adani coal mine going ahead amidst reports that they are just weeks away from reaching financial closure and could be just months away from starting to digging within months.
18 days ago | Echonetdaily | 12 National News -
Farmers and traditional custodians protest Pilliga pipeline
North-west NSW farmers were joined by a traditional custodian last week at a protest outside the Sydney annual general meeting of the company that plans to build a gas pipeline to Santos’s controversial Narrabri coal seam gas scheme.
20 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 National News -
Enova brings its energy to a new community
Northern Rivers based energy retailer Enova Community Energy is taking its model south of the border, with its first planned regional partnership set to be in the Albury-Wodonga region.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 National News -
International students and backpackers face large scale wage theft
An overwhelming number of international students and backpackers in Australia are suffering wage theft in silence, a landmark study by UNSW Sydney and UTS has found.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 2 National News
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Adani may start digging within months
The government is being called on to stop the Adani coal mine going ahead amidst reports that they are just weeks away from reaching financial closure and could be just months away from starting to digging within months.
18 days ago | Echonetdaily | 12 -
Farmers and traditional custodians protest Pilliga pipeline
North-west NSW farmers were joined by a traditional custodian last week at a protest outside the Sydney annual general meeting of the company that plans to build a gas pipeline to Santos’s controversial Narrabri coal seam gas scheme.
20 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Enova brings its energy to a new community
Northern Rivers based energy retailer Enova Community Energy is taking its model south of the border, with its first planned regional partnership set to be in the Albury-Wodonga region.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
International students and backpackers face large scale wage theft
An overwhelming number of international students and backpackers in Australia are suffering wage theft in silence, a landmark study by UNSW Sydney and UTS has found.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Coal seam gas needs tighter controls in NSW
The Greens have condemned the paltry fine given to gas company Santos for not having appropriate approval for using treated coal seam gas water and called for an increase in penalties for breaches of licences or misconduct.
October 18, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Aussie kids call on PM to act on Nauru
A group of young Aussie kids appear in a new advertising campaign pleading with the Prime Minister to save more than 100 young children in desperate trouble on Nauru.
October 15, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Meanwhile at the IPCC
While Australians were thoroughly distracted by Gladys’s Opera House racing debacle, news that last Saturday in Incheon, Republic of Korea, the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC was approved by the IPCC faded into the background.
October 11, 2018 | Eve Jeffery | 5 -
NSW coal mine approval coincides with IPCC announcement
State government department recommends that a new thermal coal mine should proceed on the very same day that the IPCC warned the world needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
October 9, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Baby whale caught in Gold Coast shark net
This baby whale has now been released but it's entrapment in a Queensland shark net on Tuesday (October 9) could not even legally be photographed if the state government passes a new gag law.
October 9, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Thumbs down for Facebook security breach
According to a Facebook newsroom release, some time last Tuesday, September 25, their engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts.
October 2, 2018 | The Echo | 1 -
Training grandparents and protecting the future
Lack of government action on the risks of climate change and in many cases their active endorsement off projects that will have longterm negative impact on the future are galvanising a range of citizens and businesses into action.
September 27, 2018 | Aslan Shand | 0 -
Rinehart company loses CSG legal action against Vic govt
Lakes Oil, a company part owned by Gina Rinehart, has lost a $3b court battle after attempting to sue the Victorian Government for 'lost future earnings' over its ban on unconventional gas.
September 24, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Adani caught out drilling at mine site without permission
Indian-owned mining corporation Adani, which just this week was fined by the Queensland Government over its massive spillage of coal laden water into the Great Barrier Marine Park, has been caught flouting environmental laws again.
September 12, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 8 -
Independent investigation exonerates Greens MP
An independent investigation has cleared Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham of any wrongdoing after a complaint was lodged in May 2018 alleging inappropriate behaviour dating back to August 2011.
September 11, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Greenpeace tells PM to ‘get your hand off it’
Greenpeace Australia Pacific climbers have taken to the flagpoles outside Parliament House to send a message to new prime minister Scott Morrison as he returns for the first day in parliament since taking over as leader of the country.
September 10, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Newcastle youth puts future on the line to end coal exports
Early this morning Ballyn Teagle, a 17-year-old from Newcastle, put his freedom on the line to take a stance against the coal industry. He is currently in a ten-metre-high tripod, blocking coal trains entering Newcastle coal port.
September 5, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Adani protesters throw black confetti over Qld politicians
Anti-Adani protesters this morning threw piles of black confetti over politicians during Queensland Parliament’s question time. The action was to remind Queensland Labor they have only three days left to prosecute Adani.
September 4, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
A peek at Rupert Murdoch’s revised walking dead cabinet
Good riddance Turnbull, a PM of massive wealth and ego who left office without much record of accomplishment. Remember when the Libs scoffed as Labor tore itself apart?
August 29, 2018 | Hans Lovejoy | 14 -
Scott Morrison elected next prime minister
Update: P Scott Morrison has been elected Liberal Party leader in a 45-40 vote.
August 24, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
Holiday letting legislation passes NSW parliament
A new law passed in NSW parliament last week that aims to regulate the holiday letting industry. Yet it comes incomplete, with major elements such as proposed changes to the SEPP and a code of conduct still to be finalised.
August 22, 2018 | Hans Lovejoy | 0 -
Public land being sold under market value
The sale of land significantly under its market value by the NSW coalition government in 2015 has lead to questions over its continuing sale of public land.
August 17, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Turnbull Government secures savage cutbacks to Australia’s marine sanctuaries
The Turnbull government have halved the protection that was provided to Australia’s original network of marine parks set up in 2012
August 17, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Federal integrity commission needed: Labor
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus QC stopped by the region last week to spruik Labor’s plans to establish a National Integrity Commission (NIC).
August 15, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
One in seven students are literally starving to study
One in seven Australian university students regularly go without food and other necessities because they cannot afford them, a new survey has found. The figure is higher for Indigenous and regional students.
August 14, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
NSW land-clearing rises 800 per cent
The annual rate of land-clearing soared 800 per cent in the three years before the Liberal-National government downgraded environmental protections further and made it easier for clearing to occur, new data show.
August 8, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1
