(political) It takes the rest of the world to tell...

[i-need-a-martini]

...Abbott to pull his head in.

His idiotic plan to open up areas of protected forests in Tasmania has been rejecetd by the World Heritage Committee.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/unesco-rejects-feeble-abbott-government-bid-to...

[durruticolumna]

Ant-corruption campaigner and former (Indian) supreme court justice Santos Hedge's....report says port departments, customs,police,local politicians and others all received bribe money from Adani Enterprises.
I don't want to single out that particular company though.It goes on everywhere.A couple of years ago I was in the company of Australian mining execs and one of them stated that you know where you stood with them (Indonesian officials). Just pay up and you're in.Now what's all that kerfuffle about union corruption?

[monman12]

"recent good news but more to be done"

"This is great news - the Royal Bank of Scotland now joins Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Credit Agricole as major investment banks to publicly walk away from funding Abbot Point. Adani still needs to find billions of dollars to proceed, and every major bank that pulls out represents another blow in its quest to exploit our Reef for profit."

What unresearched nonsense, read the earlier thread:

"In a letter to campaign organisations last night the bank wrote: “RBS is not involved in the Abbot Point expansion project and has no plans to be involved in the future.”

"Deutsche Bank ......... said there was speculation that it was the "most likely" bank to fund the expansion...... speculation !

"However, it said it would not finance an expansion without the assurance of both the Government and UNESCO that it would not damage the Great Barrier Reef."

How can you  "walk away"  from something you are not involved with ,  or what others might speculate?

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[boris1gary]

what, no graph?