Action for week starting 29.6.20 – Stop diversion of funds to fossil fuel projects

Support this petition to prevent the use of funds meant to support renewable energy projects being used to fund fossil fuel projects. The coalition government plans to divert public funds meant for support of renewable energy from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to fund coal and gas … Continue reading Action for week starting 29.6.20 – Stop diversion of funds to fossil fuel projects

Action for week starting 22.6.20 – Support the Climate Council’s campaign

 Support the Climate Council’s campaign to ensure that climate crisis solutions are integral to Australia’s economic recovery. The Climate Council is Australia’s leading climate change communications organisation, founded in 2013 by tens of thousands of Australians to create a new, independent and 100% community-funded organisation in response to the abolition of the Australian Climate Commission … Continue reading Action for week starting 22.6.20 – Support the Climate Council’s campaign

Action for week starting 15.6.20 – Read about the Covid-19 Commission

This week, there being no suitable petition available, we ask you to take the time to read an article reporting on the Covid-19 Commission published in The Guardian last Saturday. Paul Bastian is the national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and a member of a manufacturing taskforce advising the federal government’s Covid-19 Commission. … Continue reading Action for week starting 15.6.20 – Read about the Covid-19 Commission

Action for week starting 8.6.20 – No public money for fossil fuel projects

Ask your MP to make sure that public money for the response to the social and economic impacts of the pandemic is not spent supporting fossil fuel projects. A total of 36 individual policy changes or requests for project-specific support have been made to state and federal governments during the Covid-19 crisis by lobbying groups … Continue reading Action for week starting 8.6.20 – No public money for fossil fuel projects