Australians very wasteful with food
Australians are throwing away more than three million tonnes of food a year bec ause of overshopping and waste at the table. A study into food waste, conducted by environmental advocacy group, Planet Ark, found that young people are more likely than older people to be wasteful. Sydney Morning Herald

Ranger mine pleads guilty to contamination
Operators of the Northern Territory's Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park have pleaded guilty over a contamination incident in 2004. 28 workers fell ill after drinking or showering in water containing 400 times the legal limit of uranium. The Age

Government claims no responsibility for failed asylum seekers.
The Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone says the Government has no responsibility for rejected asylum seekers once they have returned to their country of origin. The Minister has called on the Edmund Rice Centre to provide details of its claims that four people who failed in their bid for refugee status in Australia were killed after returning home. ABC

East Timorese rejected on character
Josephite Sister and refugee advocate, Susan Connolly, believes the decision to reject fifty asylum seekers from East Timor was timed to deflect attention from Australia's negotiations with East Timor over oil and gas supplies. The Timorese have been rejected for residency on unnamed "serious character grounds" despite having been here since the early to mid 1990's. Catholic Weekly

Sydney's Water Crisis
Sydney 's fresh water supplies are assured for only three years and the city is using more water than is sustainable, with households using the equivalent to the contents of Sydney Harbour in 2004. The Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute ranks Australia as a nation facing "economic water scarcity" by 2025. Reuters

Editorial: The case for an inquiry into wrongful detention.
"Four years ago an Australian citizen was deported to the country of her birth. Who was she? The Federal Government won't say, for privacy reasons..... Where is she now? The Government does have an answer to that one: she is lost.

Lost also is any semblance of an excuse for the Government to avoid a new, open inquiry into the cases of people wrongly detained in the immigration system." Sydney Morning Herald

Planet Ark
Daily global news on the environment and plenty of information on campaigns including recycling greeting cards and milk cartons, household recycling, planting trees and cutting plastic bag use. www.planetark.com/

A Mother's Journey
This is the story of Yoni Jesner who was killed during a suicide bomber attack in Tel Aviv while visiting Israel on a gap year. He was about to commence studies in medicine in London. Yoni's mother agreed to the removal of her son's organs and his kidney was used to save the life of an eight-year-old Palestinian girl.

ABC TV - Thursday May 26th, 2005 9.30pm

Christian Ecology Link: A monthly Prayer Guide
"We cry to you, Lord, protect your creation; defend the work of your hands.
Save our generation from our addiction to fossil fuels.
Wash our hands of their clutch on dirty energy.
Clean our hearts of our desire for more and more."