Ökologie

Die Geschäftspolitik des LIDL Konzerns in den asiatischen Produktionsstandorten für Textilien kann mit moderner Sklaverei zutreffend beschrieben werden. Die Arbeitskraft der ArbeiterInnen ist wenig Wert, ihr Leben sogar nichts.

You have probably heard about the threats to the Great Barrier Reef and its dire straits due to global warming. But hidden in Western Australia lies a much more accessible treasure trove that no-one seems to care to protect, except its traditional custodians.

The Burrup Peninsula near Karratha, 780 kms north of Perth, harbours irreplaceable Aboriginal rock art of world heritage class, exposed to wilful damage or theft, toxic emissions of nearby industry and threatened by political arbitrariness.

“Hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal petroglyphs (rock engravings) are distributed over an area of 88 sq km, inviting you to discover them,” writes Jens-Uwe Korff, owner of the website Creative Spüirits. “They range from small engravings of Emu tracks to very large ones representing some kind of corroboree or ceremony, Aboriginal figures climbing a ship’s mast. They depict a Tasmanian Tiger (thylacine), whales, kangaroos, emus and thousands of Aboriginal ceremonies.

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Vom 29.8. - 4.9. wird es ein Camp gegen den Waffenhersteller Rheinmetall im niedersächsischen Unterlüß geben.

Australia’s day-old new far-right conservative prime minister, Scott Morrison, imprisoned more children in detention than any other immigration minister; he tried to increase sales tax, which would have pushed people already struggling to make ends meet further into poverty; he paraded a lump of coal in Parliament, as though the climate emergency is some kind of joke; and he's still campaigning to legalise discrimination against the LGBTIQA+ community.

Points raised by the grassroots campaigning group GetUp! after one of the messiest intra-party coups ever experienced in Australia. The best mainstream source I know for up-to-the-minute details of the political turmoil is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, accessible here.

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