DROUGHT-affected Australian farmers will receive water tanks over the next six months as part of the new #FinishWaterWaste initiative. Finish Australia, in partnership with Rural Aid and supported by Coles Group will strengthen water security for drought-affected communities by providing tools to…
YOUNG Australians are owed an environmental duty of care by the Federal government, a Melbourne court found in July. Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has an obligation to all Australians under eighteen to “Avoid causing personal injury or death arising from emissions…
PROTECTING the precious biodiversity of Australia and empowering a generation of eco-conscious Australians is the mission of Keep Australia Beautiful Week. Over the week of 16-22 August, Australians should pledge to ditch plastic items. Choose a plastic item to give up, such…
The CEO of The Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC) is calling on Australians to help support the community-based organisation in their mission to protect Tasmanian’s unique wilderness. Since 2001, the Tasmanian Land Conservancy has worked with environmental scientists to identify privately-owned properties worthy of conservation. The TLC will then reach out to landowners to enquire about purchasing…
A recent report from the World Wide Fund for Nature names eastern Australia among 24 global deforestation fronts – the only developed nation on the list. In 2015, WWF’s Saving Forests at Risk analysis identified 11 global deforestation fronts including eastern Australia. In WWF’s new report Deforestation…
Environmental and health groups are calling for urgent action to combat air pollution in the latest clean air report commissioned by Environmental Justice Australia. The report estimates up to almost 5000 Australians die each year from exposure to air pollution, over four…
The Morrison government has approved a $3.6 billion gas project in northern NSW despite widespread opposition by residents, farmers, Indigenous groups and conservation agencies.…
Neville Power has told a Senate hearing that the body lobbied the Prime Minister to use public money to expand the fossil gas industry.…
The Tasmanian state government has intervened in Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s plan to close the Styx Valley for logging this month.…
The gas industry is a very poor option for stimulus and recovery spending, as it provides few jobs, pays little tax and would lock in decades of high emissions and high energy prices, according to a new Australia Institute report, Gas-fired backfire, released jointly…
