Release full report of probity inquiry into Great Barrier Reef Marine Park...
Following the Environment Minister Greg Hunt's late afternoon media statement releasing key findings of an inquiry into potential conflicts of interest involving two board members of the Great Barrier...
View ArticleGreenpeace Arctic 30 Australian Colin Russell returns home to Tassie
Sydney 3 January 2014: Last night at 22.55, Tasmanian Colin Russell touched down in Hobart after spending more than 100 days in Russian captivity following a peaceful protest by Greenpeace in the...
View ArticleAnother company withdraws from Australia’s Abbot Point coal port expansion:...
Brisbane, Australia 26 February 2014. One of the world’s largest infrastructure developers, Lend Lease has announced that it has pulled out of the highly contentious AP-X coal terminal at Abbot Point...
View ArticleCourt challenge to Great Barrier Reef dredge dumping permit
Brisbane, Thursday 27 February 2013: A challenge has been lodged in the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal against the granting of a sea-dumping permit for the dredging operation to expand the...
View ArticleIconic Maules Creek campaign gets boost with national group CEOs pledging...
Monday 10 February 2014: In a dramatic upscaling of events, a coalition has been formed to prevent Mark Vaile’s Whitehaven Coal, from destroying the last remaining forest of its kind and to stop the...
View ArticleFirst of the Arctic 30 leaves Russia
Sydney, 27 December 2013 - The Arctic 30 are leaving Russia. Swedish activist Dima Litvinov was the first to head for the border, departing Russia by train late yesterday afternoon and arriving in...
View ArticleAustralian Colin Russell and family depart Russia
Saturday 28 December: Overnight, accompanied by his wife Chrissie and daughter Maddie, Australian Colin Russell left St. Petersburg bound for Amsterdam en route to Hobart.“I’m happy this is finally...
View Article'Threatened Species Protection Unit' steps in between endangered species and...
Thursday 20 February, 2014: Greenpeace’s ‘Threatened Species Protection Unit’ has entered the Leard State Forest – proposed site for the controversial Maules Creek coal mine - to document endangered...
View ArticleAnother company withdraws from Australia’s Abbot Point coal port expansion:...
Brisbane, Australia 26 February 2014. One of the world’s largest infrastructure developers, Lend Lease has announced that it has pulled out of the highly contentious AP-X coal terminal at Abbot Point...
View ArticleClean up Australia Day: Boomerang Alliance demands action on Cash for Containers
With Clean Up Australia Day tomorrow (Sunday 2 March), the Boomerang Alliance, consisting of 27 environment groups including Clean Up Australia, Greenpeace and the Total Environment Centre, are calling...
View ArticleIconic Maules Creek campaign gets boost with national group CEOs pledging...
Monday 10 February 2014: In a dramatic upscaling of events, a coalition has been formed to prevent Mark Vaile’s Whitehaven Coal, from destroying the last remaining forest of its kind and to stop the...
View ArticleFOI docs reveal Minister Hunt ignored GBRMPA advice to not dredge and dump on...
Sydney, 3 March 2013: New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show the Federal Environment Minister Mr Greg Hunt ignored clear advice from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park...
View ArticleSenate Inquiry means work must stop at Maules Creek and on projects...
4 March, 2014: In light of today’s announcement concerning a Senate Inquiry into the use of environmental offsets and the integrity of the process, Greenpeace is calling on the Environment Minister,...
View ArticleSuper trawler threat demands permanent ban
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed Prime Minister Abbott's statement that the Margiris super trawler "will stay banned" and has called on him to table legislation to permanently ban all super...
View ArticleFirst of the Arctic 30 leaves Russia
Sydney, 27 December 2013 - The Arctic 30 are leaving Russia. Swedish activist Dima Litvinov was the first to head for the border, departing Russia by train late yesterday afternoon and arriving in...
View ArticleAustralian Colin Russell and family depart Russia
Saturday 28 December: Overnight, accompanied by his wife Chrissie and daughter Maddie, Australian Colin Russell left St. Petersburg bound for Amsterdam en route to Hobart.“I’m happy this is finally...
View Article'Threatened Species Protection Unit' steps in between endangered species and...
Thursday 20 February, 2014: Greenpeace’s ‘Threatened Species Protection Unit’ has entered the Leard State Forest – proposed site for the controversial Maules Creek coal mine - to document endangered...
View ArticleAnother company withdraws from Australia’s Abbot Point coal port expansion:...
Brisbane, Australia 26 February 2014. One of the world’s largest infrastructure developers, Lend Lease has announced that it has pulled out of the highly contentious AP-X coal terminal at Abbot Point...
View ArticleClean up Australia Day: Boomerang Alliance demands action on Cash for Containers
With Clean Up Australia Day tomorrow (Sunday 2 March), the Boomerang Alliance, consisting of 27 environment groups including Clean Up Australia, Greenpeace and the Total Environment Centre, are calling...
View ArticleIndian coal giant Adani flouts Australian environment laws, risks endangered...
Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt should use his powers to immediately order an investigation into the potential impacts of exploration activities by Indian coal giant Adani on an endangered...
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