China has redrawn the global manufacturing map by undercutting prices for everything from clothes and computers, to industrial machinery. But it’s come at a huge cost, not just to the jobs of factory workers in Australia and other countries which can’t compete. But to Chinese workers who toil for a fraction of what we earn in the West.

Police in Newcastle have arrested two environmental activists who had tied themselves to machinery in the city’s coal port to protest against the coal industry’s impact on climate change.

Australian climate change activists paralysed the world’s largest coal exporting port for five hours by breaking into the site and chaining themselves to machinery, officials said.

SYDNEY, Sept 26, 2010 (AFP) – - Australian climate change activists paralysed the world’s largest coal exporting port Sunday for five hours by breaking into the site and chaining themselves to machinery, officials said.

THE weather is heating up and Haliday Bay residents are keen to cool off – so they’re annoyed that the town’s swimming enclosure hasn’t been fixed.