When It Rains, It Pours
Planned by Blockade Australia, whose protest at a major port in Sydney in 2022 prompted the NSW government to introduce new anti-protest laws, the group says the daily climate protests are calling for change at the heart of the issue.
“We are drawing focus on the political and economic system of this continent … we believe that is the core of the problem,” says Brad Homewood, a spokesperson for Blockade Australia.
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Fox travelled from South Australia to take part as he says he is frustrated by the government continuing to approve fossil fuel projects.
“The system we are living under is not going to take the action we need on the climate catastrophe,” Fox says. “I’m prepared to step in front of that system and say enough.
The reasons for protesting are valid, but I think trains seem like a poorly chosen target!
Guardian: Naomi Alderman: ‘Whatever happened to talking? We’ve lost the ability to swap ideas’
The internet has caused the biggest crisis in human communication since the arrival of the printing press, the award-winning dystopian author Naomi Alderman has said.
The writer of The Power, a 2016 feminist science fiction novel, said we are living through the “third information crisis”, in which digital communications have eroded in-person communication and entrenched disagreement.
“If you have a person in front of you, you can have a conversation and, ideally, through sharing experience and empathy, you may come to some new position that recognises what you’re both bringing to that conversation,” she said. “This can never happen with a book, TV show, tweet, someone’s ranty YouTube video. Increasingly, I think that leads us to be vulnerable to a kind of fundamentalism, to ‘I’ve got my view and I’m sticking to it’.”
Alderman is exploring the impact of the internet on human communication for a new five-part documentary series for BBC Radio 4, The Third Information Crisis, which begins tomorrow.
Guardian: Royal Mail goes ahead with cuts to UK flights despite takeover
Royal Mail shifted the mail from the air to roads in part through an overhaul that has included later shift times of up to 90 minutes in delivery offices, meaning it can move mail by road over longer journey times and still meet next-day delivery targets.
“We have more time to push the mail through the network by road, enabling us to take the flights out,” said Seidenberg, adding that the change meant some customers such as online retailers could now hand over parcels as late as 1am for delivery that day.
Last Updated: 07.Jul.2024 20:48 EDT
