WA ban the bag and leave NSW and Victoria looking foolish
September 12, 2017: Today’s move by the WA Premier to ban single-use bags highlights how out-of-touch the governments of NSW and Victoria are in being last to act despite overwhelming public support...
View ArticleProminent Australians’ open letter warns NAIF board against giving $1 billion...
August 10, 2017: Leaders from Australian business, industry, and academia have published an open letter in The Australian Financial Review calling for the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility...
View ArticleCommBank must rule out all new coal - not just Adani’s Carmichael mine
Sydney, 11 August 2017: Commonwealth Bank have become the 24th bank to rule out funding the controversial Adani mine, but need to show significantly more ambition and rule out all new coal funding in...
View ArticleWA ban the bag and leave NSW and Victoria looking foolish
September 12, 2017: Today’s move by the WA Premier to ban single-use bags highlights how out-of-touch the governments of NSW and Victoria are in being last to act despite overwhelming public support...
View Article‘Slush fund’ shows its true colours in taxpayer-funded handout to oil and gas
October 10, 2017: A handout to the oil and gas industry by the board of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) has today confirmed they are a fossil fuel slush fund set up to funnel...
View ArticleHuge win for Southern Australia as one of the world’s biggest polluters...
October 13, 2017: Greenpeace says the time has come for Norwegian oil company Statoil to “Gå hjem” (go home) too as Chevron follow BP in abandoning plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight, leaving...
View ArticlePacific Islanders crowdfunding to call out hypocrisy at UN climate meeting in...
Pacific Islanders crowdfunding to call out hypocrisy at UN climate meeting in GermanyOctober 13, 2017 - Two Pacific Island Representatives are calling on the public to join them as they head to a key...
View ArticleCommBank must rule out all new coal - not just Adani’s Carmichael mine
Sydney, 11 August 2017: Commonwealth Bank have become the 24th bank to rule out funding the controversial Adani mine, but need to show significantly more ambition and rule out all new coal funding in...
View ArticleWA ban the bag and leave NSW and Victoria looking foolish
September 12, 2017: Today’s move by the WA Premier to ban single-use bags highlights how out-of-touch the governments of NSW and Victoria are in being last to act despite overwhelming public support...
View ArticleProminent Australians’ open letter warns NAIF board against giving $1 billion...
August 10, 2017: Leaders from Australian business, industry, and academia have published an open letter in The Australian Financial Review calling for the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility...
View ArticleCoal delivery dumped at CommBank’s Sydney head office
Monday 16th Oct, 2017: A group of people, including a number from coal-affected communities have today delivered a load of coal to the front of the Commonwealth Bank’s Harbour Street office in Sydney...
View ArticleFederal energy plan shows Turnbull has completely caved in to climate deniers
October 17, 2017: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s new energy plan shows he has completely caved in to the extreme demands of the radical climate deniers in his party.The PM will today announce a plan...
View Article‘Ban on bans’ backfires with NSW now the last state to act on plastic bags
October 17, 2017: Victoria’s move to ban single-use bags has left a dangerously out of touch NSW the last state to move on the most prevalent form of plastic pollution.Victorian Premier, Daniel...
View ArticleGreenpeace activists confront Norwegian government’s Arctic oil drilling site
Korpfjell, Barents Sea, Norway 17 August 2017: Peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have entered the exclusion zone of Statoil’s oil rig, Songa Enabler in the Barents Sea with...
View ArticleCSIRO quietly funding climate denier super-lobbyists, the Minerals Council of...
CSIRO quietly funding climate denier super-lobbyists, the Minerals Council of AustraliaSeptember 6, 2017: The credibility of Australia’s peak science body, CSIRO, has been rocked today by revelations...
View ArticleNew NAIF revelations show inquiry must be uncompromising in holding board to...
September 13, 2017: Two new potential cases of conflict of interest within the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) revealed by documents leaked to media are a clear indication something...
View ArticlePricewaterhousecoopers leaves climate commitments on the night table to get...
September 13, 2017: Pyjama-clad Greenpeace activists representing Pricewaterhousecoopers Australia (PwC) and the Minerals Council have cosied up in a bed at the consulting firm’s Sydney office to...
View Article‘Gladys Wrap’: Greenpeace activists create guerilla art exhibit demanding...
October 17, 2017: A giant container of “Gladys Wrap” bearing the face of NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has been unveiled as part of the opening day of Sydney’s iconic Sculptures by the Sea.The...
View ArticleGreenpeace launches campaign to create ‘largest protected area on Earth’ - as...
Hobart, 27 October 2017 - Greenpeace has launched a global campaign for an Antarctic Sanctuary, covering 1.8 million square kilometres of ocean, to protect whales, penguins and other wildlife.Following...
View ArticleAustralia to miss 2030 emissions reduction targets due to failure to wean...
SYDNEY, November 1, 2017 - Australia is poised to miss its 2030 emissions reduction targets with the United Nations identifying us as one of a number of countries that need to take stronger action to...
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