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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...

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Adani’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...

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‘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...

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Government 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...

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Australia 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...

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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...

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NAIF 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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Greenpeace 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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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The 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...

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Government 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...

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Australia 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...

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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...

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JOINT 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...

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Public 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...

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Huge 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...

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Politicians 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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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The 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...

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NAIF 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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