All articles by Greenpeace Australia Pacific
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The climate change guilt trip
The battle against global warming should not be about judging people’s every choice. Originally posted on Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2013 A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he’d had playing…
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The Making of #WheresBarry
The decision to make ‘Cash for Containers’ a national scheme in Australia is so close. In fact the decision will come down to one man, NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. So, on a cold, dark morning in Northern Sydney we decided to personally take our Coca-Cola ad that got banned by national TV Channels to Barry…
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The last tree or the final straw?
Born in 1965 and hailing from South Africa, Kumi Naidoo has been Greenpeace’s International Executive Director since November 2009. Our office in Istanbul has been under siege. It is in the heart Taksim, an area in which a brutal police clampdown has been trying to end the peaceful protest over the planned destruction of the…
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Hi Choke, nice try!
Poor Coke. Their PR team must be having a hard time of late – but to be honest, they brought it on themselves.
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Call Off The Zombies!
I don’t know much about zombies. What I do know has been taught to me by my thirteen-year-old son: one of the first rules is don’t ever turn your back on them if you’re not sure they’re dead.
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Choking it. How free is free-to-air TV?
Press release – 16 May, 2013Sydney, Friday 17 May 2013: Channel 7 and SBS have followed Channel 9’s lead and banned a controversial Greenpeace recycling advert.http://youtu.be/Q7Uxaw6YoRw Despite clearance and classification by Free TV- the industry regulatory body – a Channel 7 representative called the ad ‘inappropriate’ before issuing the ban order. In just over a…
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Pacific tuna boats struggle for survival.
Press release – 12 May, 2013Honiara, May 13, 2013 – Local tuna boat operators targeting albacore in the South Pacific are under threat of being pushed out of operation altogether due to the steady growth in numbers of subsidized foreign fishing vessels. (i)According to a recent report by the Forum Fisheries Agency (ii), certain foreign…
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Channel 9 bottles it over controversial recycling ad
Press release – 9 May, 2013Sydney, Friday 10th May 2013: In an 11th hour decision, Channel 9 has banned Greenpeace’s controversial ad in support of a national cash for cans recycling scheme. The ad – lampooning Coca-Cola’s opposition to effective recycling – has gone viral, being viewed over half a million times on YouTube since…