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EPBC final report our best chance to head off further extinctions
January 29, 2021
Australia’s federal environmental laws - the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act - are broken.
Read More ShareSouth Australia’s number one drinking water quality concern?
January 18, 2021
Recent Freedom of Information data obtained by Friends of the Earth (FoE) reveals that the substance most regularly breaching Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG's) in South Australia continue to be Trihalomethanes (THM’s).
Read More ShareTaungerong Elder calls for logging to halt to protect water and native fish
January 07, 2021
Taungerong, Nira-Balluck Elder, Uncle Larry Walsh has spoken out against the Victorian Government’s plans to clearfell thousands of hectares of native forest in the Snobs Creek catchment. Uncle Larry Walsh standing in front of...
Read More ShareMyponga Reservoir in South Australia. A National Pesticide Hotspot?
December 20, 2020
Myponga Reservoir on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula is the latest water body to be identified by Friends of the Earth as a pesticide hotspot.
Read More ShareWater Industry a Major Source of PFAS Contamination
December 13, 2020
Friends of the Earth is concerned that the $23 billion water industry is a major source of PFAS contamination over potentially tens of thousands of hectares of land across Australia. With the push on...
Read More ShareSolidarity with Bangladeshi communities saying NO to MAAR Ltd.’s toxic waste
November 20, 2020
Friends of the Earth Australia have signed on to a statement of solidarity (below) with Bangladeshi communities mobilising to protect their canals against the dumping of toxic industrial waste.
Read More ShareEPBC review - please write a submission
November 16, 2020
The federal government has been trying to ‘reform’ the environmental assessment laws for major projects. They have now tabled amended legislation, which was approved by the House of Representatives in September.
Read More ShareMicroplastics in Water
November 07, 2020
by Professor Alfred Poulos One of the most important properties of water is its capacity to dissolve, transport, or carry, a greatvariety of substances- solids, liquids, or even gases. Rivers and lakes, a major...
Read More ShareQ: What do synthetic clothing and the food we eat have in common? A: Micro Plastics
October 23, 2020
Plastics and synthetic textiles that are allowed to indefinitely degrade in the environment, gradually break down into smaller and smaller fragments. These breakdown products are called micro plastics and increasingly they are being detected...
Read More ShareTake Action: East Gippsland food bowl at risk from mining
October 19, 2020
Kalbar Operations Pty Ltd, a company with no experience operating a mine, is proposing a massive open-cut mineral sands mine at the Fingerboards, 20km north west of Bairnsdale in East Gippsland. This proposal will come with...
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