mining – Arena

17 Aug 2023

Seismic exploration has the central contradiction that has been with us since the first nuclear explosions opened the new epoch: the combination of the highly rational and the entirely mad.

Whose voice counts on Aboriginal heritage?

Arena Online

Gerard Mazza

17 Aug 2023

Nothing has been achieved, even after promises that things would change following the international scandal that was the destruction of Juukan Gorge.

Gaslit Futures: How Gas Giant Woodside Gets What It Wants

Arena Quarterly no.10

David Ritter

Jun 2022

At a time when the International Energy Agency (IEA) has called for a total moratorium on opening any new coal, oil or gas projects to avoid climate disaster, Woodside is hell-bent on locking in increasing greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come.

‘It’s Raining Motorcars’: Mining and the destruction of Aboriginal Sacred Sites

Arena Online

Jack Green, Seán Kerins

20 May 2021

We were out in Gudanji country, a place some of us older people know well. But we didn’t know where we were. The river had gone, huge mountains of waste rock were piled high in the sky, blocking our view of The Barramundi Dreaming… We were lost in our own country.

Again and Again: Settler-colonial extractivism and the Juukan Gorge inquiry’s interim report

Arena Online

Jon Altman, Dan Tout

17 Dec 2020

…it seems the First Nations of Australia will be left with another empty promise that governments and mining companies, together so invested in their ongoing dispossession, will act in good faith to ‘protect’ them and their heritage. Surely nobody can reasonably believe this by now.

Juukan Gorge Destruction: Extractivism and the Australian Settler-colonial Imagination

Arena Quarterly no. 4

Dan Tout

Dec 2020

...the settler-colonial logic of elimination—of displacement for the purpose of replacement—has come to align in ever more destructive ways with the economic logic of neoliberal capitalism…

The Native Title Act supports mineral extraction and heritage destruction

Arena Online

Jon Altman

16 Jun 2020

As spatial coverage has expanded—unexpectedly, following socially just judicial decisions and evolving jurisprudence—governmental and corporate attempts to empty native title and land rights laws of content have rapidly escalated.

"Stories for suckers, and corporate capture of the UN

Mining the Deep Sea

Arena Magazine no. 162

Catherine Coumans

Oct 2019

Stories for suckers, and corporate capture of the UN

"Attacks on the green movement are intensifying

Opposing Adani, by John Hepburn

Arena Magazine no. 145

John Hepburn

Dec 2016

Attacks on the green movement are intensifying

"The proposed—and seemingly doomed—gas hub at James Price Point has been a kind of Rorschach…

James Price Point: Victory or Loss?

Arena Magazine 124

Jun 2013

The proposed—and seemingly doomed—gas hub at James Price Point has been a kind of Rorschach test, reflecting observers’ ideological leanings back to them. Accordingly, when in early April Woodside Petroleum announced it would shelve the project, this news was cast both in tragic and triumphant terms. For years the gas hub had been the epicentre […]

"By Alison Caddick. "...In this issue of Arena Magazine contributors put the lie to many…

Editorial: Mining Earth

Arena Magazine 124

Jun 2013

By Alison Caddick. "...In this issue of Arena Magazine contributors put the lie to many of the claims and fantasies propagated by ‘the miners’ and their political boosters..."

"Research in today's mining-funded tertiary sector