Bauxite Mining Is a Health Hazard
PERTH: Bauxite mining in metropolitan water catchments could create a major health…
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Miners Defeat Utah
After one of the most expensive and decisive battles in Australian industrial history, 2,000 Central Queensland miners forced the giant Utah Development Company to concede almost total defeat…
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Essays and articles from Bunji compiled by Bill Day. Essential reading for Black activists and students of Aboriginal affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bauxite mining threatens health
West Australian University Child Health department pediatrician Dr G D Bower accuses Health Minister Ridge of irresponsibility in dismissing the danger of bauxite mining to public…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between the lines $95 a Week to Buy Coal Peace
The giant American company Utah Development has offered its miners in Central Queensland $95 a week to end a seven-week strike. The massive…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Into Oil Won't Go
If brown coal is used to produce oil, Victorian coal production will be unable to meet demand by about 1998. This would lead to a situation that invites the use of nuclear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Precious Than Oil or Diamonds or Gold
HAIFA — What does a talented inventor do if he has a brilliant idea, but no one is willing to listen to him? It’s worse if he has no scientific…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mount Isa Miners Stop Over Safety
MT ISA: Mineworkers crowd Isa Street as they wait to vote on a strike motion over a safety issue. The 1,100 workers, members of the Australian Workers Union, voted to stop for 24 hours last Thursday after a three hour meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peruvian Miners Under Martial Law
PERU: The military government has declared a state of emergency and suspended constitutional…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WA Labor Party decides bauxite mining policy
The State ALP Conference last week passed a contentious motion which opposes development of bauxite mining on the eastern scarp of the Darling Ranges but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →El Dorado and the lust for gold El Dorado Colombian Gold Exhibition at NSW Art Gallery every day until October 2, 10 am to 7.30 pm
El Dorado opens a new vista on history as well as providing an exciting aesthetic experience. I felt the same about the African Museum in Brussels last year. European writing of history…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chilean miners arrested
CHILE: The Pinochet regime has arrested 13 workers at the huge Chuquiamaca copper mine in Loa province and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wa Coverup on Secret Uranium Mining
PERTH: West Australian communists charge that the secret mining of uranium ore at Yeelirrie reveals a massive undercover operation which is a confidence trick on the people of the state…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Utah miners support seamen
BRISBANE: Utah miners are fully supporting the Seamens Union campaign for Australian crews on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →B’nai B’rith Expanding at Gold Coast
Its newly installed president. Rabbi A. Avnit, said the unit would provide a focus for service to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →News Nuke News Mining Moguls Mauled
The Ranger uranium mine has been effectively delayed until the end of the wet season, by the N.T. Blacks’ refusal sign — their refusal to be stood over by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fine for Protest Mine
DARWIN: An anti-uranium activist was fined and two others face court action for digging a symbolic uranium mine in a Darwin park last August. Roland Fourcard, Norman Horrace and Bill Day were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Susie Gold to Step Down As Jca Leader
Susie Gold, for the past three years chairman of the Jewish Communal Appeal Women’s Division, will step down with a double record 1978 campaign behind her…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →States Borrow Millions to Underwrite Mining
The Loans Council meeting here last week approved proposals for state governments to seek overseas loans amounting to $1,767 million over eight…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Alp Shadow Minister Opposes Bauxite Mining Anyone seen a jarrah forest around here?
PERTH: Labor spokesperson for environment in state Parliament. Jack Skidmore, said recently he opposed bauxite mining. The ALP supports Court's go-ahead for Alcoa to mine bauxite. "I adhere to the party decision" Jack Skidmore said, "but my own feeling is to oppose it. I am not anti-bauxite mining, but I am anti anything which…
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