Originating from Louisiana in the US, the ship is believed to be carrying GE contaminated soy meal from US-grown Round-up Ready soy. The ship offloaded a portion of its load at Port Tauranga in New Zealand, before steaming for Australian shores.
On the other side of the world, two Australian Greenpeace activists have been busy protesting against a war on Iraq, and attempting to prevent military arms and supplies from leaving for the Gulf.
For a long time the Business Council of Australia (BCA) was against ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, and John Howard used this as an excuse to oppose the climate change treaty. But now the game is up.
We thought we'd won, but Greenpeace and local residents are once again fighting to protect the health of Sydneysiders at one of the Australia’s most toxic hotspots - the Rhodes Peninsula at Homebush Bay.
John Howard is merely a puppet of George Bush, and to mark Howard’s visit to New Zealand Greenpeace unveiled a giant Johnny dangling from his puppet-master’s fingers.
In another attempt to ensure John Howard hears the public’s outcry against war, Greenpeace, local peace activists and Federal politician Andrew Bartlett (Democrats) launched a new “peace memorial” along Anzac Parade in Canberra.
