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Burdekin Shire release PFAS detection data for Ayr, North Queensland
May 14, 2025
The small town of Ayr (population 10,000) is located in northern Queensland, about 70km south east of Townsville in sugarcane country. Since 2018 the town has had major issues in regards to PFAS in...
Read More ShareFire Season Overlap Threatens Firefighting Efforts
May 06, 2025
Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions -- known as fire weather -- that facilitate the spread of wildfires....
Read More ShareAustralia votes against division
May 05, 2025
In this federal election, Australians were offered a clear choice between competent governance and social inclusion or divisive politics. They decisively chose the former. While this election was ostensibly focused on cost of living...
Read More ShareCoalition's nuclear policy must be nuked
May 04, 2025
The Don’t Nuke the Climate initiative has today welcomed the clear rejection of nuclear power by Australian voters. Seven News political editor Mark Riley summed up the Coalition’s problem: “The party that chose nuclear...
Read More ShareIs Dutson Downs a Major Source of PFAS Pollution into the Largest Inland Waterways Network in Australia?
April 16, 2025
Update 28/4/25: Friends of the Earth has been informed that both Lake Coleman and Lake Reeve have been contaminated with PFAS, probably for many years. Monitoring for PFAS commenced after the EPA delivered a...
Read More ShareProtecting our protected areas
April 01, 2025
Many thousands of Australians spent years working to see wild and special places protected in national parks, World Heritage and other conservation reserves. From central Tasmania to the forests of south western WA, K’gari...
Read More ShareMountain Minds
March 31, 2025
Friends of the Mountain are proud to invite you to Mountain Minds. This will be a free community gathering of music, talks, workshops and yoga, designed to bring people together through their shared passion...
Read More SharePFAS in water supply network Newcastle region, NSW
March 11, 2025
In late February Friends of the Earth Australia received information pertaining to a GIPA request from Hunter Water. Hunter Water provide water services to 600,000 people in the Lower Hunter and Newcastle regions of...
Read More ShareMEDIA RELEASE: Wind in sails of Australian steel after Albanese offshore wind announcement
March 04, 2025
Australia has taken a big step forward for offshore wind, with news that Gippsland project Star of the South will partner with Bluescope to explore using Australian made steel in a project that has...
Read More ShareResponse to Interim Report of the House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy
February 26, 2025
Friends of the Earth Australia ‒ Media Release 26 Feb 2025 Nuclear Thuggery and Threats: Response to Interim Report of the House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy Friends of the Earth (FoE) welcomes the...
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