Award winning reporter, Amy Goodman, presenter of the US tv show DemocracyNow , is renowned for hard hitting coverage of events , including the East Timor struggle , where she and another journalist were roughed up by Indonesians at the Santa Cruz Cemetery shootings in Dili. In that incident the journalist with her , Alan Nairn, threw himself on top of Goodman to protect her from the assailants and was badly beaten . Goodman has been in Darwin on several occasions.
Her recent account of the Australian bushfires , also run on the not for profit NationofChange (Progressive Journalism for Positive Change ) website , was headed : AUSTRALIA ON FIRE: RECORD-SHATTERING HEAT,WILDFIRES ENGULF WORLD'S LARGEST EXPORTER OF COAL. In a live cross to Sydney, Anna Rose, co-founder and chair of Australian Youth Climate Coalition, a published campaigner against global warming , stated that billionaire miners want to open two new coal mines in Queensland which would result in thousands more bulk carriers endangering the Great Barrier Reef.
