Australians will see through Government hypocrisy on the Reef following...
6 July 2017: The Government has again avoided the embarrassment of an ‘in danger’ listing for the Great Barrier Reef following today’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision, but Australians will...
View ArticleAdani’s Carmichael mine would be a disaster for communities and a death...
June 6, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific has condemned today’s announcement by the Adani board about the Carmichael mine as an “empty PR stunt” for a toxic project which is unable to go ahead without...
View Article‘Royalties holiday’ a slap in the face to the Queensland community
Thursday, 18 May 2017: The Queensland Government’s plan to offer the Carmichael coal mine a cash handout in the form of a "royalties holiday" is a disgrace and shows that they have turned their back on...
View ArticleGovernment ignoring climate change as Great Barrier Reef dies before our eyes
Friday 19 May, 2017: The Australian government continue to push new coal projects despite the revelation that back-to-back bleaching events could have killed as much as half of the Great Barrier...
View ArticleAustralia standing in the way of cleaner steel, Greenpeace report shows
Thursday, 8 June 2017: Australia has played a key role in enabling the global steel industry to become more, not less, emission intensive, a new Greenpeace report has shown. Released today, the...
View ArticleAustralians will see through Government hypocrisy on the Reef following...
6 July 2017: The Government has again avoided the embarrassment of an ‘in danger’ listing for the Great Barrier Reef following today’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision, but Australians will...
View ArticleNAIF inquiry must hold secretive ‘slush fund’ to account
June 14, 2017: The inquiry into the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) should recommend the removal of conflicted members from the facility’s board and ensure billions of dollars of...
View ArticleGreenpeace condemns APPCO practices
June 19, 2017: The practices and culture revealed during yesterday’s Sunday Night program appear to show company using the good name of charities to take advantage of the Australian public. The program...
View ArticleGreenpeace study finds renewable energy will be cheapest electricity in G20...
Hamburg, 5 July 2017 – Wind energy and solar power will be the cheapest form of power generation in every G20 country by the year 2030 at the latest, a new Greenpeace Germany report has found.Ahead of...
View ArticleThe cost of NSW and Victoria’s lag on banning the bag - up to two billion...
July 28, 2017: New analysis by Greenpeace released today shows that if NSW and Vic continue to fail to ‘ban the bag’, an estimated 1.6 - 2 billion more bags per year will be used in Australia, even...
View ArticleGovernment ignoring climate change as Great Barrier Reef dies before our eyes
Friday 19 May, 2017: The Australian government continue to push new coal projects despite the revelation that back-to-back bleaching events could have killed as much as half of the Great Barrier...
View ArticleAustralia standing in the way of cleaner steel, Greenpeace report shows
Thursday, 8 June 2017: Australia has played a key role in enabling the global steel industry to become more, not less, emission intensive, a new Greenpeace report has shown. Released today, the...
View ArticleAustralians will see through Government hypocrisy on the Reef following...
6 July 2017: The Government has again avoided the embarrassment of an ‘in danger’ listing for the Great Barrier Reef following today’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision, but Australians will...
View ArticleJOINT RELEASE: Call to cease plastic bag plague – new poll
With over one billion plastic bags littered in the last 10 years, it’s time for a ban, key environment groups said today, as Australia’s environment ministers prepare to meet on the issue.They also...
View ArticlePublic backlash highlights CommBank’s toxic fossil fuel problem
Sydney, 23 June 2017: Community backlash against the Commonwealth Bank’s support of fossil fuels is now so severe that the bank has been forced to set up a special taskforce to handle customers...
View ArticleHuge iceberg breaks off Antarctic Peninsula Larsen C ice shelf
Amsterdam, 12 July 2017 - Responding to news that one of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken off the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf, Paul Johnston, head of Greenpeace...
View ArticlePoliticians left on the wrong side of history as Woolworths and Coles ban...
July 14, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes today’s decision by Woolworths and Coles to completely phase out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months.The supermarket giants today...
View ArticleGreenpeace urges Minister Upton to ban the bag at Keep NSW Beautiful Congress
Ahead of Minister Upton’s speech at the Keep NSW Beautiful Congress today, Greenpeace sent a colourful message to the NSW Environment Minister to clean up the state’s act and finally ban the...
View ArticleThe Australian people deserve better than dodgy government deals done in...
August 2, 2017: Freedom of Information requests have revealed details of the Queensland government’s “transparent policy framework” on Adani is being kept secret with officials asking for help...
View ArticleNAIF inquiry must hold secretive ‘slush fund’ to account
June 14, 2017: The inquiry into the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) should recommend the removal of conflicted members from the facility’s board and ensure billions of dollars of...
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