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The ‘climate election’ we need to have
May 09, 2022
As pre polling opens for the 2022 federal election, climate change and the environment have been largely missing from the mainstream debate. Yet what happens at this election will impact climate and environment, in...
Read More ShareAlarm that IPCC WGIII report on climate mitigation accepts overshoot of 1.5°C and relies on unproven technofixes that won’t curb runaway climate change
April 05, 2022
Once again, the IPCC’s findings have become a political battleground. Climate justice campaigners fear that climate scientists’ core message – that we must make an urgent just transition away from fossil fuels to limit...
Read More ShareClimate to drive agenda of new government
April 01, 2022
This was the climate election we really needed. Although the mainstream media debate largely focused on issues like the cost of living, there was clearly a deep desire in the community to see the...
Read More ShareNuclear power and Australia's culture wars
April 01, 2022
By Jim Green
Read More ShareStatements from Pacific Elders Voice
March 11, 2022
The Pacific Elders Voice group of highly renowned present and former leaders has issued two strong statements in relation to major regional and global issues - new security moves by the Australian government and...
Read More ShareCommunity solidarity after the floods
March 03, 2022
The news from south east Queensland and northern NSW is devastating. Among the harrowing stories of loss and destruction, there are many of mutual aid, solidarity, empathy and bravery. As author Rebecca Solnit explained so...
Read More ShareHealthcare workers stage die-in at AGL office to protest pollution
February 02, 2022
Last week, Gippsland health professionals travelled to Melbourne to join a theatrical health protest outside AGL’s head office to call on the energy giant to reduce its harmful coal pollution, warning that the health impacts of climate...
Read More ShareThere is no climate justice without LGBTIQA+ liberation
November 16, 2021
This article was written for Chain Reaction magazine by queer, enviro and social justice activists, Zianna Fuad (they/them) and Phil Evans (he/him or they/them), who are part of the Friends of the Earth community....
Read More ShareCOP 26: ‘Rich nations have kicked the can down the road’
November 15, 2021
The Conference of Parties (COP) climate negotiations in Glasgow has just ended. Climate science makes it clear that we are running out of time to avoid climate catastrophe and this COP was vital in...
Read More ShareQueensland Government may kill off Waratah Coal’s dirty new coal power station proposal.
November 13, 2021
On the 9 November 2021, Queensland Deputy Premier MP Miles notified intent to ‘Call In’ Waratah Coal Pty Ltd’s (owned by billionaire Clive Palmer) dirty new coal power station proposal. A ‘Call In’ will...
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