Australian past bordered on slavery and genocide

By Philip Knightley

WASHINGTON, January 30, 2001 — Soon after last summer's Olympics in Sydney, indigenous Australian senator Aden Ridgeway said the "groundswe

Excerpts from this story referencing "Queensland":

"… onate – as in Governor Phillip’s case – to the offence. A settler in Queensland described how a raiding party of Native Police in the 1880s would carry ou …"

"… s there room for both of us here?” an outback farmer wrote to the weekly Queenslander in 1880. “No. Then the sooner the weaker is wiped out the better, as w …"

Inside the shell: Drugs, arms and tax scams

By Gerard Ryle

The man behind shell companies linked to arms deals, drug lords and tax fraud.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Queensland":

"… common element – a number of shell companies associated with 68-year-old Queensland businessman Geoffrey Taylor or members of his family.Shell companies – t …"

"… ms in Australia in preparation for his eventual relocation to Southport in Queensland.“Would you like to add stature and credibility to your company by appoin …"

"Brown down" in Australia

By Marian Wilkinson, Ben Cubby and Flint Duxfield

Business interests thwart carbon controls on the hottest, driest continent

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"… ant Rio Tinto, the world’s largest aluminum producer, Deripaska owns the Queensland alumina refinery in Gladstone, a plant that employs 1,050 workers and each …"

"… lobbyists in Australia as RUSAL’s local chairman when he bought into the Queensland refinery. The chairman, John Hannagan, had worked a decade ago with the Au …"

"… protest against the scheme.The campaign is running in coal-mining towns in Queensland and New South Wales, both dominated by MPs from the left-of-center Labor P …"

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The big pong down under

By Bill Birnbauer

Less than two years after turning control over to a privatized firm, Adelaide took on a certain stench

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"… smell.The investigation, funded by the government and led by University of Queensland water treatment expert Ken Hartley, found that weather conditions at the t …"