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Monday, 20 August 2018

The Australian mining threat to South Africa's Wild Coast – photo essay

Extract from The Guardian

The Guardian picture essay

Thom Pierce visited the people of Xolobeni to photograph them and the postcards he will post on their behalf to the Australian mining company putting at risk their way of life.

Mon 20 Aug 2018 06.08 AEST

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/20/the-australian-mining-threat-to-south-africas-wild-coast-photo-essay
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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