When the dust settles
May 31, 2021
There’s a narrative by this stage familiar to anyone who has followed the climate wars. The media rolls footage of the dusty mining regions of Australia its hard-scrabble men and women, usually to camouflage visiting politicians in a hi-vis cosplay of populist virtue. Counterposed to them are the ‘woke capital-city greenies’, fighting tooth and nail to destroy regional mining communities, blinded by their privileges. Recently, this dichotomy has been challenged through the mainstream promotion and appeal of ‘Green New Deal’ policies that seek to unite environmentalism and working-class politics once again. Though, in the Australian context, policymakers are seeking to transition back towards fossil fuels, not away from them. Recently the Hunter Valley has increased its coal production by 25% in 10 years while Australia has quintupled its liquified natural gas exports.
Shenhua coal deal points to mining policy on the run
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When the Berejiklian government ever taketh away from the mining industry, particularly for coal, it speedily giveth back.
On Wednesday, Deputy Premier John Barilaro and fellow senior ministers graced the sweeping black soils of Breeza on the Liverpool Plains to confirm what he had been denying just a day earlier: that the government was coughing up $100 million to ensure the demise of plans by China’s Shenhua group to build giant pits in the area.
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Music that evolved from the Silk Road trade route, with its caravans, markets, celebrations and taverns, could be a genre in itself. This Taipei-based band reinterprets Taiwanâs history of migration from across Chinaâs diverse regions, producing an epic cavalcade of Silk Road music history combined with edgy contemporary musicianship. Interweaving moments that sound Mongolian, Arabic, Turkic, Greek, Persian, Indian and even Celtic, the band is fronted by revelatory vocalist Mia Hsieh, who studied with avant-garde legend Meredith Monk. The erhu (two-string fiddle) and zhongruan (four-sting lute) feature alongside guitar, bass and percussion. Hsiehâs voice moves seamlessly from ecstatic and terrifying howls and freewheeling vocal contortions on
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