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Stop Trashing Australia!
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Climate Leaders: The Time has Come
Across the Internet or in your favourite bookstore you’ll find many stories of great leadership. They focus on the character of great leaders and the decisions they made, the courage they displayed, the integrity they possessed. Supporters for the Paris Agreement at the COP22 in Marrakech – 18 Nov, 2016 A common thread is…
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‘Gladys Wrap’: Greenpeace activists create guerilla art exhibit demanding government action on plastic bags
Press release – 18 October, 2017October 17, 2017: A giant container of “Gladys Wrap” bearing the face of NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has been unveiled as part of the opening day of Sydney’s iconic Sculptures by the Sea.The guerilla art installation was created and placed among the other art exhibits by a dozen Greenpeace activists…
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‘Ban on bans’ backfires with NSW now the last state to act on plastic bags
Press release – 17 October, 2017October 17, 2017: Victoria’s move to ban single-use bags has left a dangerously out of touch NSW the last state to move on the most prevalent form of plastic pollution.Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, today announced the ban saying he would look to move “as quickly as we can” on the…
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Coal delivery dumped at CommBank’s Sydney head office
Press release – 15 October, 2017Monday 16th Oct, 2017: A group of people, including a number from coal-affected communities have today delivered a load of coal to the front of the Commonwealth Bank’s Harbour Street office in Sydney in order to highlight the consequences of their fossil fuel lending policies.A group of people, including a…
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Pacific Islanders crowdfunding to call out hypocrisy at UN climate meeting in Germany
Press release – 12 October, 2017Pacific Islanders crowdfunding to call out hypocrisy at UN climate meeting in GermanyOctober 13, 2017 – Two Pacific Island Representatives are calling on the public to join them as they head to a key UN climate meeting in Germany where they will demand that countries cut their sweet-talk and honour…
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Australia’s Plastic Problem: What, why & how?
There are many complex, nuanced issues in today’s world – banning single-use plastic products isn’t one of them. | In order to curb the exorbitant amount of plastic pollution in Australia, we need to stop relying on plastic products with such a short life-span. Consider this: Recent Greenpeace analysis found that Australians alone use over 9.7…
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Climate change is happening today. Record struck in Sydney
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that today is the hottest early September day in 159 years of records. The record has not just been broken, it has been broken by a full 1.6 degrees Celsius. Bushfires are raging across the state, and while thankfully nobody has yet lost their lives, emergency services are stretched,…
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WA ban the bag and leave NSW and Victoria looking foolish
Press release – 11 September, 2017September 12, 2017: Today’s move by the WA Premier to ban single-use bags highlights how out-of-touch the governments of NSW and Victoria are in being last to act despite overwhelming public support for action to reduce plastic waste.In announcing his state’s ban on single-use plastic bags today Mark McGowan told…