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The cost of NSW and Victoria’s lag on banning the bag – up to two billion more plastic bags a year
Press release – 30 July, 2017July 28, 2017: New analysis by Greenpeace released today shows that if NSW and Vic continue to fail to ‘ban the bag’, an estimated 1.6 – 2 billion more bags per year will be used in Australia, even with voluntary phase outs by supermarkets.The analysis comes as Environment Ministers from…
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Politicians left on the wrong side of history as Woolworths and Coles ban single-use plastic bags
Press release – 13 July, 2017July 14, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes today’s decision by Woolworths and Coles to completely phase out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months.The supermarket giants today announced they would no longer offer the lightweight plastic shopping bags across their chains of stores network in Australia. “This announcement by…
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Living the dream – how I found the time to be a hands-on activist in a busy, crazy world.
Always being a keen “keyboard activist”, signing petitions and sending emails, I told myself that as a busy working mum this was all I had time to do. So, when Greenpeace asked me to step up and lead some Coalbank action in my region, the temptation was soon quashed with my own ready mantra, “I’m…
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How I learned to give up plastic and live a more beautiful life
I’ve lived a disposable-plastic-free life for almost two years now. Amazingly, I make very few hard sacrifices and am in no lack of luxury. Giving up plastic seems daunting … but if I can do it, so can you. I’ve lived a disposable-plastic-free life for almost two years now. Amazingly, I make very few hard…
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NAIF are holding taxpayers’ money to ransom behind a wall of secrecy
Press release – 27 June, 2017June 28, 2017: The continued refusal of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) to respond to any and all freedom of information requests represents a failure to the Australian taxpayer and is impermissible under law.More than 1,500 Greenpeace supporters used an online tool created to assist them in submitting a…
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Black lung outbreak a reminder of ransom coal has always taken from workers and the community
In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs left looking like a blackened sponge. It is a terrible disease, long thought eradicated in this country. But now it’s back [1]. Originally published on HuffPost In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs…
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BLACK LUNG OUTBREAK A REMINDER OF RANSOM COAL HAS ALWAYS TAKEN FROM WORKERS AND THE COMMUNITY
In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs left looking like a blackened sponge.It is a terrible disease, long thought eradicated in this country. But now it’s back [1]. Originally published on HuffPo It is a reminder that the coal industry has always demanded a human price in exchange for the…
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I don’t need a drill, I just need a hole in the wall – The Brisbane Tool Library
What if you could borrow some tools just as you would borrow books from a library? What if instead of buying your camping gear, you could just borrow it for the weekend? What if you could borrow a baby stroller? Born in 1992, the year of the first global Earth Summit in Rio de…
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Exposing Canavan’s Coal Slush Fund
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility: secretive, compromised and currently considering giving $1 billion of public money to the climate-wrecking Carmichael coal mine. But the good news is that the Federal Parliament has just authorised a Senate inquiry into the NAIF, to get to the bottom of the conflict of interest and secrecy at the heart…