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Defence of Earth

Defence of Earth Project

Australia has still not signed treaty with First Nations after the Frontier Wars upon colonisation.

Militarism is an extension of a patriarchal system that is damaging to both people and planet.

In 2018 Friends of the Earth Australia instituted a national project concerned with dismantling this aspect of patriarchy in order to progress system change based on gender, social, and environmental justice.

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Project work

Challenging the economic framework which uses extractivism to further a violent colonial agenda

 

Challenging the economic framework which uses extractivism to further a violent colonial agenda

Drawing the links between military activity/culture and the disregard for and commodification of nature

 

Drawing the links between military activity/culture and the disregard for and commodification of nature Cancel Land Forces

Cancel Land Forces

Identifying war and militarism ‘carbon boot-prints’

 

Identifying war and militarism ‘carbon boot-prints’ as key drivers of the climate crisis and the impediments to global solutions and climate justice

Australia's Carbon Bootprint

Mapping

 

Exploring, mapping and responding to the environmental impacts and social costs of Australian military activity

Nuclear sites map  PFAS map