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May 3rd: can I count on you?
This is a guest blog written by high school climate activist and passionate writer Oscar Alateras My name is Oscar Alateras, I am a member of the School Strike 4 Climate movement and I have a message for each and every individual. In Australia, we have confirmed May 3rd as our next national immobilisation for…
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This will be a climate election
SYDNEY, April 11, 2019 – With Australia reeling from heatwaves, drought, mass fish kills, catastrophic floods and fires, the 2019 federal election will be a referendum on years of failure to act on climate change.With polling consistently indicating climate change is among voters’ top concerns [1], Australians will go to the ballot box on May…
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Dirty money: what you need to know about political donations
We analyse the top four big political spends from the fossil fuel industry Every year the names of people and companies who have been funnelling money into political parties is released. But the disclosure system is broken. We only find out about donations that were made seven months ago, and a lot of donations are…
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Adani, coal, and the Queensland water heist
|Climate impacts like drought are “threat multipliers” that should be treated as national security concerns, but the Trump administration plans to ignore them. | We all know that Australia is a very hot and dry continent. In coming years and decades, droughts and water shortages are likely to become longer and harsher. Water is essential…
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Greenpeace CEO’s New Book Reveals Deadly Consequences of Coal
June 13, 2018: Author and Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO, David Ritter, has launched a scathing attack on the Australian coal industry, highlighting the substance’s deadly consequences in a new book published this week.One of the stories told by Ritter is that of pop singer Lynn Barnett who died alone in her apartment during Sydney’s worst…
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Engineer quits Adani’s crumbling Carmichael coal mine, government must now join banks, industry in pulling the plug
Overnight AECOM revealed it was no longer working with Adani on the front end engineering and design work to build a rail line to its proposed coal mine in North Queensland’s Galilee Basin.
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Australia’s imagined role in Pacific affairs jars with the less than flattering reality
SUVA, May 1, 2018 – Defence Industries Minister Christopher Pyne’s assertion on ABC Radio National’s Breakfast program that Australia looks after the South Pacific region at the behest of the US is an insult that conveniently ignores Australia’s role in exacerbating climate change that puts island states in catastrophic danger.The minister made the factually incorrect…