First Nations people and supporters, including unionists, began a 400-kilometre peace walk against the AUKUS military alliance aiming toΒ deliver a message to Canberra. Jim McIlroyΜύ°ω±π±θ΄Η°ω³Ω²υ.
Kevin Buzzacott
Arabunna Elder Uncle Kevin Buzzacott passed away in Alice Springs on November 29, 2023. A fierce advocate for his people and for a nuclear-free Australia, Kevin will be sorely missed,Β writes Jim Green.
A newΒ anti-war, anti-nuclear coalition organised a well-attended protest against the federal government's decision to build nuclearΒ submarines and join the new AUKUS pact, reports Renfrey Clarke.Β Β
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott,Β an elder of the Triabunna people inΒ the Lake Eyre region of far northern South Australia, is campaigning for Santos and other gas companies to be prevented from destroying country.Β Renfrey Clarke reports.
Standing up against the war profiteers at the Land Forces exhibition in Brisbane was a rainbow coalition of First Nations peoples, peace, climate and human rights defenders. Alex Bainbridge, Jim McIlroy and Steffi Leedham report.
Activists from all over Australia converged at Pine Gap, the US spy base, 50 years since it was first established for a series of protests. Robyn Marshall reports.
The front page headline βTrash and treasureβ on the February 16 edition of South Australia's only daily newspaper, The Advertiser, welcomed the recommendation from the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission for a nuclear waste dump in outback SA. The commission had cost a massive tax-payer funded $8 million.