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A withdrawal by Japan from the International Whaling Commission is unacceptable – Greenpeace response
December 20, 2018: Greenpeace Australia Pacific condemns the decision by the Japanese Government to withdraw from IWC to resume commercial whaling.“This snub to multilateralism is unacceptable and deeply concerning, but let us not forget that the Japanese fleet has been conducting commercial whaling under the guise of scientific research for many years,” Greenpeace Senior Campaigner,…
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Apollo Bay: a community standing up to the oil industry
What does it take to get a whole town standing up for a good cause? 16-year-old Grace brought her Apollo Bay community together to take a stand against deepwater oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight. A student-led flotilla including kayaks, sailboats, paddle boards, and surfboards set sail in Apollo Bay Harbour to send a…
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Photo story: exploring the Great Southern Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is famous around the world. But hardly anyone’s heard of Australia’s system of pristine cold-water reefs we’ve been exploring…The Great Southern Reef. Underwater Filmmaker and Marine Biologist Stefan Andrews surfaces from a dive on the Rainbow Warrior at Kangaroo Island in the Great Australian Bight during the Greenpeace, Making Oil History…
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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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Can the world come to its senses on nuclear weapons?
On this International Day Against Nuclear Tests, Bunny McDiarmid, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, reflects on 46 years of fighting against nuclear weapons. Women of Rongelap island welcome Bunny McDiarmid as crew members from the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior arrive ashore on the atoll. The Rainbow Warrior is in Rongelap to assist in the evacuation…
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I found coal washed up on a beach on the Great Barrier Reef coast
It was a Sunday morning in July, 2015, that I got a chance to board the Rainbow Warrior as a member and go on a guided tour of the vessel. When I was on the rubber dinghy on the way out to the boat I remember thinking, “I hope there is some type of an…
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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…