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Many groups are actively engaged in promoting justice and confronting corporations and government’s policy which threaten the human habitat. A major struggle is against the fossil fuel companies, particularly coal companies in Australia. The anti-globalization movement for fair trade and investment and trade relations is campaigning for labour rights, freedom of information, and environmental sustainability, and against the proposed US-led TPP proposal because it would favour corporations and the interests of capital to the detriment of the well-being of all Australians. The anti-war movement has had a strong presence in Australia’s political history and in the more recent anti-war protest against Australia’s invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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    Coal is the main source of power in India, and the country is likely to double its coal consumption and become the world’s largest importer of coal in the next decade. The Adani Group is the world’s third largest coal company and its head, Gautam Adani, is close to India’s prime minister. The Indian government has been running a campaign against Greenpeace and, in 2015, imposed a ban on its activities (Rowlatt, 2015).

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Paul, E. (2016). Justice. In: Australian Political Economy of Violence and Non-Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60214-5_8

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