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Orangutans take over Sydney
Early Monday morning a bunch of awesome people and orangutans decided to pay PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson a little visit to their Australian headquarters in Sydney. © James Alcock / Greenpeace The plan: to deliver the 30,000+ Australian signatures calling on each of these brands to come through on their “no deforestation”…
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You’ve just lost your right to protest
Last week, while I was asleep in bed, the New South Wales government took away one of my most cherished rights. Protest is something that few people like doing, but we do it when we are pushed to our limits. When I went to the People’s Climate March last December, it wasn’t because I had…
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3 Ways You Can Help Stop Coke Trashing Australia
Our people-powered campaign to stop Coke trashing Australia went up a notch last week when we took to the streets to recycle some of Coke’s ad space. Coke spends millions getting its message across in Australia, whether it’s through advertising to sell more sugary fizzy drinks, or trying to influence important public policy issues.…
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Let’s stop coke from trashing a recycling scheme that works!
Right now, soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is trying to block a world class recycling scheme in NSW – a scheme that already works in other places, like South Australia. Every year over 7 billion cans and bottles get littered across the country, choking waterways and wildlife. Coke want to keep it that way, and they’re…
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Coca-Cola lobbying risks Baird’s promised recycling system: video
Press release – 15 February, 2016Sydney, 16 February 2016 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has warned that NSW Premier Mike Baird’s promised ‘world’s best practice’ container recycling system is at risk over opposition from Coca-Cola with the launch of a spoof ad targeting the soft-drink giant.“Last year, Mr Baird committed to a world’s best-practice container deposit…
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Stripped-down activists find little to wear at The North Face Store protests in Sydney and Melbourne
Press release – 4 February, 2016Sydney and Melbourne, 4 February 2016 – Stripped-down Greenpeace activists today targeted three flagship stores of outdoor clothing company The North Face in Sydney and Melbourne over the company’s use of polluting chemicals.Activists wearing only cardboard boxes bearing the slogan ‘Better this than PFC gear’ highlighted the company’s use of…
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A better prawn for your Christmas plate.
It’s 4:45am and we have arrived on the Hawkesbury River. It’s a breath of fresh air to get out of the city and Gary Howard is waiting patiently for us at his gate. His house is located on a beautiful farm, about 20 steps from the Hawkesbury River-bank. It’s 4:45am and we have arrived on…
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Seven in ten Australians reject international nuclear waste dump in Australia
Press release – 4 December, 2015Sydney, 5 December 2015 – As Australia prepares today to receive a shipment of its own reprocessed nuclear waste that still contains plutonium, a poll has shown that nearly three quarters of Australians oppose plans to store nuclear waste for other countries.The ReachTEL poll conducted on 26 November, 2015, asked…
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Greenpeace gifts a surfboard to Mike Baird in call to drop harmful hooked shark deterrents
Press release – 9 November, 2015Sydney, 10 November 2015 – Greenpeace activists today delivered a surfboard to NSW Premier Mike Baird covered with more than 25,000 signatures asking him to rule out shark deterrents that hook and kill marine life such as turtles and dolphins.The surfboard petition calls on Premier Baird to rule out the…