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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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Green Climate Fund failed Nepal’s communities when urgent action was needed

September 02, 2026

Seven-year delay on Himalayan flood protection project highlights failures of international climate finance 28 August 2026 — Kathmandu: Friends of Earth Asia Pacific has condemned the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for taking seven years to approve a project designed to protect communities in Nepal...

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Wagga Wagga's PFAS Water Woes

August 24, 2026

Recent media reported by the ABC has highlighted concerns regarding PFAS contamination of Wagga Wagga's drinking water supply. Friends of the Earth has been concerned about the situation at Wagga Wagga for some years particularly when water quality monitoring by Riverina Water in 2024...

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PFAS Chemicals and the Murray River

August 19, 2026

The Murray River is Australia's longest river. It is an ecological stronghold in the south east of Australia. It drains westward from the Snowy Mountains and flows into the Southern Ocean at the Coorong in South Australia. Millions of people are reliant on the...

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