On Sunday night Cairns local residents helped to create a 3000 candle art installation in the shape of a wind turbine on Cairns city esplanade. The event marked the end of our highly successful 6-week tour up the eastern seaboard from Sydney to Cairns. It was a beautiful statement of the community’s support for our […]
We’ve made our message loud and clear over the past 6 weeks. The Tour began with the release of our Energy [R]evolution Scenario, which shows how Australia could phase out coal-fired power by 2030 through a combination of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Shortly after we released another report, demonstrating the job opportunities in turning […]
We arrived in Cairns yesterday afternoon, our final stop in the Energy [R]evolution tour. After nearly 6 weeks at sea, it will be strange for us on the campaign team to soon be sleeping in beds that don’t rock!
The Port of Cairns is like a breath of fresh air, because unlike the other ports we’ve […]
There’s been a flurry of climate sceptics voicing their opinions in the media in recent weeks, a reminder that this debate is still alive and well. While the majority of Australia’s political leaders now acknowledge the fact of human-induced climate change and the threat it poses, it appears that some people still doubt the phenomenon […]
The papers today are running a story about how the Arctic sea ice may completely melt in the summer within the next 5 years. Climate modelling from just a few years ago predicted that this wouldn’t happen until at least the end of the century. Trends like this should make the devastating impacts of climate […]
Another Saturday, another balmy, sunny open boat day in far North Queensland. This week we are in Townsville and with the 400 people who visited the ship today, the total number of people who’ve been on board since we began in Sydney 5 weeks ago climbed to over 5000.
That’s over 5000 people who have heard […]
We’ve been anchored off Mackay for 3 days now, because late in the day after our coal ship painting protest we were notified by the Townsville Port Authority about ’security concerns’, and other issues, that would have prevented us from docking at the port.
Initially, there was a requirement that we would be required to pay […]