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Global warming has a face
December 14, 2017
A fund raiser for the Carteret Islands Auction. Online only, from 6 til 23 December. Three talented artists from Fish Lane Studios in South Brisbane have donated stunning work to be auctioned to help...
Read More ShareOnshore gas bans a convenient scapegoat for pro gas MPs
December 13, 2017
Media release 13 December 2017 Environmental group Friends of the Earth has labelled ‘misleading’ and ‘irresponsible’, coalition and gas industry responses to today’s Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) updated report into the state...
Read More ShareA New Threat to Charities and Environmental Organisations
December 07, 2017
Today, the Turnbull Government announced a new threat to Environmental organsatiaions and Australia's charity sector. After a long-running campaign waged by the Minerals Council and the hard right to strip environmental organisations of their charitable status,...
Read More ShareA Pacific participant’s perspective on the People’s Climate Summit
November 28, 2017
A Pacific participant’s perspective on the People’s Climate Summit at the UNFCCC COP23 in Bonn, Germany. Friends of the Earth Brisbane Climate Frontlines invites you to this special event on December 8. Come and...
Read More ShareHobart Snap Rally - Stand up for climate action at COAG
November 21, 2017
After attacking renewable energy for months in the media, the Turnbull government seems intent on taking Australia backwards on climate change action. Their latest thought bubble the 'National Energy Guarantee' or NEG appears designed...
Read More ShareAn Endless Crime: BHP Billiton and Vale's Sludge Still Harming Brazil
November 16, 2017
This article was published by Amigos da Terra Brasil, Arthur Viana -Photo Provide by MAB Half past four. The kettle on the stove screams with hot water for my coffee. It´s too late: it´s...
Read More ShareA cable car on Mt Wellington?
November 08, 2017
A cable car has been proposed up the face of Mt Wellington/Kunanyi in Hobart. A range of local residents and environmental groups have been campaigning against this proposal, which would have significant environmental impacts...
Read More ShareFriends of the Earth win Victorian Premier's Sustainability Award
November 03, 2017
Friends of the Earth has won the Environmental Justice category in this year's Victorian Premier's Sustainability Awards for conducting a campaign to build community resistance to the potential threat of fracking.
Read More ShareWhen will we ban new coal mines? #StopAdani
November 01, 2017
“I just cannot believe that in 2017 we are still fighting the Adani coal mine” begins Stop Adani campaigner Charlie Wood; her gentle demeanor belies the indignation of her words.
Read More ShareSupreme Court Injunction halts logging of old growth Kuark Forest
November 01, 2017
Forest conservationists who established a blockade of old growth forest in East Gippsland are celebrating today after environment groups secured a legal injunction that has stalled the logging operation.
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