Australia's major mining projects are coming under attack from a large number of tribal groups and politicians in the Philippines, causing one gold and copper exploration in Nueva Vizcaya to shut down.
Last week the Philippine Government halted the project by Australian-owned Oxiana Philippines following protests of about 10,000 residents who claimed the project would destroy their livelihood of citrus farming.
Local politicians, indigenous tribes, senior officials in the Catholic church, the communist New People's Army and mainstream leftist and environmental lobby groups have cooperated in protesting Australian mining and exploration projects in every part of the island according to The Australian.
The newspaper has investigated accounts of violence by groups of locals living near the mining sites.
Reported by staff writer
