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Panama Papers: the plot thickens
Back in April, the Panama Papers rocked the world, exposing just how the global elite use offshore trusts in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, Panama and the Bahamas to hide their wealth and dodgy deals. Thanks to an anonymous whistleblower who leaked a huge amount of data from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, we…
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I want to Break Free (from fossil fuels)
This week, waves of community activism and civil disobedience are sweeping across the world’s most polluting fossil fuel projects. Tens of thousands of people determined to rid their future from the floods, heat waves, droughts, cyclones and other extreme weather events, that are fuelled by fossil fuels, will stand face to face with the giant ships, excavators, smokestacks…
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Walmart Defends Its Destructive Canned Tuna As Tesco Takes Action
Walmart defends its destructive canned tuna while Tesco, the largest UK retailer, takes action to clean up its canned tuna aisle.
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Windfall for fossil fuels, slim pickings for the Reef: unpicking the 2016 budget
I know this question has kept you up the last three nights and now, finally, we have the answer: $6.236. That’s $6.236 billion in the 2016 federal budget for the diesel fuel rebate. Read on for what that means… TL;DR – this budget gives billions to the mining industry, cuts environment funding, ignores the…
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Walmart Must Take Responsibility for Its Canned Tuna
When unsuspecting Walmart customers reach for a can of Great Value or Chicken of the Sea tuna, they don’t know that a trail of destruction has brought that can from…
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This Huge Amazon Dam Was Just Stalled. Now It’s Time to Stop It!
Good news from Brazil for the Munduruku and other people threatened by the risky proposed São Luiz do Tapajós megadam
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Painting Ourselves White to Keep the Reef Colourful
Friday morning nearly 100 of us gathered near the Sydney Opera House to raise awareness about the current coral bleaching event and to call on the government to get serious about fighting climate change. The current bleaching is the worst on record as 93% of the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing bleaching due to high ocean temperatures, driven…
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Why I got my kit off for a #CoalFree future
You may have caught Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s video launching the #CoalFree movement to protect the things we love from coal pollution. The video features four half-naked volunteers having their bodies painted – half of them as black smoke protruding from coal stacks and the other half as all the colours of Australia’s most precious natural…
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Orangutans take over Sydney
Early Monday morning a bunch of awesome people and orangutans decided to pay PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson a little visit to their Australian headquarters in Sydney. © James Alcock / Greenpeace The plan: to deliver the 30,000+ Australian signatures calling on each of these brands to come through on their “no deforestation”…