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FLUME DROPS NEW TRACK WITH GREENPEACE TO RAISE CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS
An Australian icon is at risk of succumbing to a slow and silent death. That’s the harsh reality that faces the Great Barrier Reef if fossil fuel business as usual continues unabated. Fortunately, not everyone has given up on the Reef, including Grammy-award winning artist Flume and Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Yesterday the globe-trotting multi-award-winning Sydneysider…
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What Does Labor’s Victory in the Queensland Election Mean for Adani?
After a heated campaign, it looks like Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor Party will win the Queensland state election, defeating the Liberal National Party and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. | While there were many issues that moved people’s votes, one thing is clear: the future of Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, and Labor’s promised veto of the proposed…
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Can we Create Healthy Oceans and Tackle Climate Change at the Same Time?
“We woke up to the fact that there’s ocean change just like climate change. We need ocean action like there’s climate action.” These words rang out at international climate talks last week, spoken by Peter Thompson, the UN’s special envoy for the ocean. This is just one sign that ensuring healthy oceans is fast becoming…
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Ending the Oil Age
Join the movement to stop oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight and end the age of oil.
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Australia presented with Fossil of Day award for support of Adani plans to build one of the world’s largest coal mines
Press release – 7 November, 2017Bonn, November 7, 2017: The Australian government has been awarded the Climate Action Network-International’s (CAN) Fossil of the Day for its support of Adani Group’s plans to build a coal mine larger than the city of Paris and ship its coal out through the bleaching Great Barrier Reef.The dubious honour…
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Premier’s promise to block loan of taxpayers’ money to Adani coalmine shows community pressure taking toll
Press release – 2 November, 2017November 3, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes the Queensland Premier’s pledge to use her veto power to block $1 billion of taxpayers’ money being used to assist in the construction of Adani’s Carmichael coal mine.Annastacia Palaszczuk today said she would veto any federal loan by the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility…
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Federal energy plan shows Turnbull has completely caved in to climate deniers
October 17, 2017: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s new energy plan shows he has completely caved in to the extreme demands of the radical climate deniers in his party. The PM will today announce a plan to reposition Australia’s energy and emissions policy to scrap all renewable energy subsidies, abandon the Clean Energy Target (CET), and…
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‘Slush fund’ shows its true colours in taxpayer-funded handout to oil and gas
Press release – 9 October, 2017October 10, 2017: A handout to the oil and gas industry by the board of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) has today confirmed they are a fossil fuel slush fund set up to funnel money into dying industries.NAIF today announced that it will provide a $18.6 million concessional loan…
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David Ritter explores the persistence of threats to the Great Barrier Reef
The deterioration of the world’s ecology is an existential challenge to global governance. World Heritage, Government Action and Private Finance While global instruments such as the UN Convention on Biodiversity and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change were established with the specific remedial purposes of addressing systemic stresses on planetary boundaries, it is perhaps trite to observe that…
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Greenpeace says good riddance to an environmental vandal as Mineral Council’s CEO steps down
Press release – 21 September, 2017September 22, 2017: Another climate change denier will leave the public debate with the announcement of the resignation next month by Brendan Pearson from his position as Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA).Pearson’s nine years at the MCA has been characterised by a constant undermining of the…