Tanzanians are all-too-familiar with the promises made and not kept by mining companies and the national government. Uranium enters the scene.

Today on Earth matters we will be hearing about some of the environmental and social justice issues being raised by community campaigners at the companies London and Perth annual general meetings over the last month. We'll hear from Nemekene Tundama, Bron & Hilberto Torre Martinez recorded at the demonstration outside the London AGM and a report from inside the meeting from London Mining Networks Richard Solly and Andy Whitmore. At the Perth AGM we speak with Charles Roche and Nikola Casule.

The Basin Plan is slowly increasing the environmental and cultural flows of the Murray-Darling river system, but it is already under attack.

We’re discussing the Federal government’s new data retention laws - and asking what will be it’s effects on activism, and democratic life more broadly.