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Pacific Islanders call out Australian Climate Change Ambassador’s breathtaking hypocrisy
Matisse Walkden-Brown is Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s Fiji-based Head of Pacific Net. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is a member of the Pacific Island Climate Action Network. As a Pacific climate activist one of the hardest things to swallow is that our fate lies in the hands of other people. Other governments. Big governments with big investments. Big…
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Prime Minister needs to come clean and admit coal obsession driven by politics
Press release – 31 January, 2017Sydney, 1 February 2017:Prime Minister needs to come clean and admit coal obsession driven by politics The Prime Minister’s obsession with coal-fired power in his National Press Club address today was a sop to his party’s climate-deniers and fossil fuel donors, says Greenpeace. “The Prime Minister is not looking at…
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Frosty the Snowman’s fossil fetish
What a children’s song teaches us about coal, climate change and the dangers of greed; and why Turnbull should put our billion dollars back into aid, not subsidies. Like many immigrants to Australia, I’m still getting my head around the Southern Hemisphere version of the festive season: barbeques, beaches, and tons of summer sun. But…
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To save the Reef, we need to ban new coal mines
My name is Graeme Kelleher, and for 16 years, I was in charge of the Government authority trusted with designing and protecting the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. When I took on that role in 1979, the diversity of the Reef was just amazing. Its beauty really can’t be described in words. What I saw…
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Australian government must include action on coal in its Great Barrier Reef report to Unesco, says Greenpeace
Press release – 23 November, 2016Sydney, 24 November 2016 – Ahead of the Australian government’s expected submission of a report to the Unesco World Heritage Committee over the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Greenpeace Australia Pacific reef campaigner Shani Tager said:“The devastation of the Great Barrier Reef this year shows how useless the Australian…
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Former Great Barrier Reef head calls for ban on new coal mines to protect the reef
Press release – 20 November, 2016Sydney, 21 November 2016 – The former head of the Australian government’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) has called on the government to ban new coal mines to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the dangers of climate change.Graeme Kelleher was the first chairperson and chief executive of…
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Naomi Klein: In Conversation
Activism legend Naomi Klein speaks to Greenpeace’s David Ritter about the “insanity” of government coal collusion, scenarios for the Great Barrier Reef, and her admiration for Australia’s environmental movement. Author of ‘No Logo’ and ‘This Changes Everything‘, Naomi Klein visited Australia in November 2016 to collect the annual Sydney Peace Prize.
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Paris Agreement ratification demands huge climate u-turn from Australian govt
Press release – 9 November, 2016Sydney, 10 November 2015 – Responding to Australia’s ratification of the Paris climate agreement, Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s climate and energy campaigner Shani Tager said:“While ratifying the Paris climate agreement is an important step in securing a healthy future for our planet, Australia now has to make a huge climate U-turn…
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Can meat eating really be sustainable?
I’ve spent a lot of time lately talking to people about meat. About how much they eat (in Australia = a LOT) about how it’s produced, about better ways to do things. As a meat lover who used to be a vegetarian, but now having made a conscious decision to eat meat, I wanted to…
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Australia’s coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
Can Australia achieve fair and open decision-making when big coal players are involved? The case of Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine suggests the answer is no, and Indigenous land owners are bearing the brunt. Queensland’s Speaker of the House Peter Wellington holds a Declaration of Defence of Country given to him by the Wangan and…