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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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Together, we’re making this global
Devastating news was confirmed last week. The Great Barrier Reef is being hit by a second mass coral bleaching event in just two years. Thousands of us have called on the Australian government to act on stop reef destruction. It’s crucial that this event is a wake-up call for our leaders to choose a clean energy…
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Hey CommBank, we’re here. Please stop funding dirty coal.
Early this morning I joined a group of amazing volunteers who headed to the CommBank headquarters in Sydney with a message for the bank: stop funding new coal projects. You can speak up too by signing the petition to the CEO Ian Narev here. CommBank loaned more money to dirty fossil fuels in 2016 than…
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Remember the Reef
NOTE: Since the time of writing, scientists have announced that for the second year in a row, a major coral bleaching event is unfolding. You can take action here. My name is Sid French. I’m a supporter of Greenpeace Australia Pacific as well as a member of the general assembly, our governing body. I’ve just recently…
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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…
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Can meat eating really be sustainable?
I’ve spent a lot of time lately talking to people about meat. About how much they eat (in Australia = a LOT) about how it’s produced, about better ways to do things. As a meat lover who used to be a vegetarian, but now having made a conscious decision to eat meat, I wanted to…
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Australia’s coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
Can Australia achieve fair and open decision-making when big coal players are involved? The case of Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine suggests the answer is no, and Indigenous land owners are bearing the brunt. Queensland’s Speaker of the House Peter Wellington holds a Declaration of Defence of Country given to him by the Wangan and…