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Climate & Energy Justice

There is no climate justice without First Nations justice, gender justice and economic justice. Friends of the Earth believe it is essential to address the social issues, such as disproportionate use of resources, inequality, and colonisation, while responding to climate change.
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Gender Justice & Dismantling Patriarchy

Friends of The Earth was founded on deep green, grassroots, anti-capitalist, feminist principles We aim to make anti-capitalist and grassroots feminism transversal throughout the Friends of the Earth from the local to...
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Land and Water

We must reconnect with nature to ensure we protect biodiversity for generations to come. Friends of the Earth helps communities to resist the destruction of sacred land, protect native forests and habitat, rivers, waterways, our oceans and other places we love.
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Economics for Earth

Economics should work in harmony with nature, putting people and the planet before profits for corporations! Empowered communities and social movements working together across borders can build a sustainable and just future.
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Indigenous Land and Rights

So called Australia was forcibly occupied and colonised by Europeans during the bloody Frontier Wars with the First Nations People of this land. Sovereignty was never ceded. Friends of the Earth acknowledges the ongoing struggle for land and rights of First Nations people and encourages its members and supporters to be good allies and accomplices in those struggles.
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Whilst focussing on local, grassroots action, Friends of the Earth Australia also campaigns at the national level from a climate justice frame on anti nuclear issues, climate and energy justice, economic justice and forests and biodiversity
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Data Centres

June 17, 2026

  The extensive development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centres in Australia threatens to derail the renewable energy transition that is underway.   Mass build of new centres will entrench fossil gas and coal use, and add huge volumes of new greenhouse gas climate...

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Vale Neil Barrett

June 09, 2026

Neil will be known to many long term FoE members and supporters. He was part of the first generation of activists in the organisation, and was the State Coordinator of Friends of the Earth in Victoria in 1975-1976. He recently reflected on those days,...

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Big Tech says data centres are necessary - here's why they're wrong

May 22, 2026

While Big Tech and many politicians are presenting the unprecedented growth of data centres as an inevitability, or even a necessity, the truth is that this energy- and water-thirsty industry threatens to throw our energy transition off course. Last month, Friends of the Earth...

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