Wendy Bacon Journalist, activist
MenuClimate activist group Rising Tide has vowed to stage the largest civil disobedience action in Australia’s history by stopping coal ships leaving or entering Newcastle Port for 30 hours. Wendy Bacon reports.
The battle to stop the destruction of critical koala habitats in state forests in Northern NSW has escalated in recent weeks. WENDY BACON reports on the campaign from daring lock-ons and vigils in the depth of forests to rallies, parliament and courts in Sydney.
A bill introducing harsh penalties and extending the scope of a law applying to those who obstruct public places has been passed after an all-night sitting by the South Australian Legislative Council this week. Veteran investigative journalist (herself twice imprisoned for free speech) Wendy Bacon reports.
Labor and Liberal parties doubled down on their support for harsh anti-protest laws after a District Court judge overturned a 15 month prison sentence given to activist Deane Violet Coco last year. Wendy Bacon has the story.
№ 9 in Women in the Media
This week Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi delivered the annual PEN Sydney Lecture at the Sydney Writers' Festival. I reported on her speech for City Hub.
№ 8 in Wading through greenwashing
A year after the alleged first pollution offences occurred, the NSW EPA has notified residents that it has commenced legal proceedings against Macquarie-owned Bingo Industries waste facility at Eastern Creek. Local residents filed hundreds of complaints about odours spreading through their Western Sydney suburbs. The odours still continue. This story also covers Bingo's poor record at managing asbestos.
№ 7 in Wading through greenwashing
The NSW Environmental Protection Authority met with Bingo senior executives as odours continue to overwhelm residents living around its Macquarie-owned waste facility at Eastern Creek. It ordered work to stop where no odour controls were in place.
№ 6 in Wading through greenwashing
Disgusting hydrogen sulphide odours have returned in Western Sydney. It took the EPA five weeks to take action