Hundreds of Australians gathered in capital cities tonight to protest against the Israeli attack on a flotilla of boats on its way to Gaza on Monday.

Bourke Residents are worried one of their most important facilities will be lost, putting the most remote town in Northern NSW further behind.

A conference held in Sydney on Sunday has called for unionists and environmentalists to join forces in order to combat climate change writes Dave Drayton. Image: SEARCH Foundation

Conservationists are concerned that fuel reduction burns in East Gippsland will threaten endangered species and reduce biodiversity. Peter Vaughan reports.

Experts at the 3rd Annual Preventative Health Summit on May 28th, slammed the government’s funding of the PBS saying more money should be invested in prevention rather than treatment.

The world’s ballooning population will make participatory government initiatives absolutely necessary in the future, said experts at the CeBit Conference in Sydney. Alice Downey reports.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has rejected requests by cinemas to be exempt from providing captioned and audio described films to patrons.

Experts believe that consumers need to know more about what to do with electronic waste writes Kirsten Brogaard.

New E-Health initiatives to connect patients with doctors won’t work because of a lack of infrastructure, experts said at the CeBit Conference in Sydney yesterday. By Alice Downey

Could whales be neighbours with oil platforms? Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has just released new offshore oil leases, and some lie in areas that are flagged as potential marine sanctuaries.