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Climate & Energy Justice

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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Land and Water

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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Gender Justice & Dismantling Patriarchy

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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Economics for Earth

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

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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Australia needs strong environment laws

November 05, 2025

Our federal environment laws (called the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, or EPBC) were created in the 1990s when John Howard was prime minister. They were never designed to really protect land and water from development and thousands of destructive projects have been...

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Barium in Bulla Drinking Water at Unsafe Levels for Decades

October 19, 2025

The small community of Bulla (Gudabijin) in the north west of the Northern Territory has a problem with its water supply. The problem is Barium, an earth metal which has been detected in the drinking water supply at up to ten times the safe...

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NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on PFAS Contamination supports FoE recommendations

September 28, 2025

In late 2024 Friends of the Earth Australia submitted information to the NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on PFAS contamination, chaired by Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann. In February FoE Campaigner Anthony Amis was invited to speak by the Committee at a Public Hearing in...

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