Firefighters can see that human-induced climate change is making fire seasons longer and more intense. Cam Walker argues that we all have to counter the right-wing conspiracy misinformation campaign.
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Getting the Victorian government back in the game on energy ownership is good policy and appears to have been widely welcomed in the elections, argues Cam Walker.
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New federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek is being asked to reconsider nearly all new coal and gas proposals awaiting federal approval. Cam Walker reports.
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Cam Walker argues that the federal government’s push for fossil gas amid a worsening climate crisis is reckless in the extreme.
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Protect Arnhem Land is a campaign to fight offshore exploration, mining and drilling around the entire coastline of the Northern Territory Arnhem Land region. Last August, it came to light that there are more than 40 potential petroleum exploration sites off the coast of Arnhem Land. The people living on this country had not been informed of the submission of such exploration permits nor were they aware of what mining exploration entails.
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In 2006, the Victorian government committed to introducing a “landmark” Climate Change Bill. At this time, there was growing momentum around the world for legislation that would cut greenhouse gas emissions. This momentum was largely in response to the glacial pace of the international climate change negotiations. -
Like many others, I cut my activist teeth during the Franklin River campaign of the early 1980s. Like thousands of others, I joined the blockades in south west Tasmania and, like hundreds of others, was arrested for my troubles and spent a week in Risdon Jail.
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Landowners from mining-affected regions in Papua New Guinea met on August 6 and declared their opposition to public funding for new mining projects. "Decades of mining have left a legacy of environmental degradation, and uprooted
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A legal challenge against Shell and the military government of Pakistan began in a Karachi court on April 25 over plans to explore for gas in Kirthar National Park. The Kirthar National Park was established in 1974 and is one of
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New threat to Fraser IslandFraser Island, off Queensland's central coast, was "saved" in the early 1990s, when the federal government intervened to stop logging on the island following a concerted campaign by many environment
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Resistance as a strategy for sustainabilityTo someone active in the environment movement in Australia, the debates about tactics and vision in environmentalism often occur within fairly narrow perimeters. Direct action or
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March 24 marked the 10th anniversary of the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in Alaska, one of the worst oil disasters in history. Friends of the Earth International chose that day to release a report on Exxon and its new