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Invasion Day protests this Sunday 26th January
January 24, 2020
First Nations groups are calling on all communities to join with them to stand on Invasion Day 2020 - Sunday January 26th - in an Annual Day of Protest.
Read More ShareFiresticks Alliance: Reinvigorating Australia’s cultural fire knowledge
January 10, 2020
The Firesticks Alliance is an Indigenous led organisation that works with communities, land and fire agencies and organisations across Australia.
Read More ShareCopley declares itself Underground Coal Gasification free
May 06, 2019
Community members of Copley and Leigh Creek gathered at the Copley Hall to affirm their clear opposition to the Underground Coal Gasification project at the old Leigh Creek Coal Mine. The UCG trial of...
Read More ShareStatement of support for Djap Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy
March 26, 2019
Friends of the Earth Melbourne is calling on the Victorian State Government to stop works immediately on the Western Highway expansion project, that if progressed will cause irreparable damage to aboriginal cultural sites.
Read More ShareProcess not postcode for nuclear waste
August 16, 2018
In a matter of months, South Australia could be the reluctant home to Australia's nuclear waste. Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan is fast forwarding the process to approve a site for a national nuclear...
Read More Share“Sorry means you don’t do it again”: Grandmothers Against Removals
March 23, 2018
A look at the grandmothers who are fighting the system and getting their grandchildren back. Most people don’t know that more Aboriginal children are being taken from their families today than in the ‘Stolen...
Read More ShareFLASHBACK 2010: A stunning victory − Red gum parks and co-management by Traditional Owners
January 22, 2018
FLASHBACK 2010: Traditional Owners and environment groups including achieved a stunning victory in May 2010 with the creation of 114,000 hectares of Red Gum Protected Areas in the NSW Riverina including areas to be co-managed...
Read More ShareIndigenous and Grassroots Movements Solidarity Gathering
January 15, 2018
The destructive paths of neo-liberal capitalism have forged their way through Latin America for decades, and an all-too-familiar path is being carved through the land and cultures of the First Peoples of so-called Australia....
Read More ShareYami Lester
August 09, 2017
It was with great sorrow that Friends of the Earth learnt of the passing of Yami Lester in July. Yankunytjatjara Elder, atomic test survivor, Aboriginal rights activist, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Yami's voice and...
Read More ShareClose the gap 2017 - start by funding Indigenous Protected Areas
March 16, 2017
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders live 10 - 17 years less than non-Aboriginal Australians and the infant mortality rates are more than twice than the rest of the population. We need to close the...
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