Adani’s Abbot Point coal port project is deeply in debt.  Right now, they are reaching out to banks and finance companies, looking for help to repay the $1 billion debt they owe on Abbot Point in the next two years. If Adani can be forced to repay their debt on Abbot Point, they can’t then … Continue reading Action for week starting 6.7.20 – Help stop Adani’s Abbot Point coal port →

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 →

 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 →

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 →

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 →

Emissions reduction funding to rebuild Australian manufacturing must be used for renewable energy, not gas. New analysis from the Australia Institute’s Climate and Energy Program has found that using Covid‑19 recovery funding to subsidise the gas industry would create few jobs, increase emissions, and lock in higher energy prices.  But under the cover of the … Continue reading Action for week starting 1.6.20 – Petition for renewably powered economic recovery →

Protest Scott Morrison’s COVID-19 National Coordination Commission links to fossil fuels. The Covid-19 National Coordination Commission was set up on March 25 with no terms of reference, no register of conflicts of interest, and even less divulged about its financial resources. Stacked with executives from the gas and mining lobbies it is turning out to be … Continue reading Action for week starting 25.5.20 – Email your MP about the Covid-19 Commission →

Make a donation to the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) Defence Fund and it will be doubled to help defend the future of young Australians, We’ve told you before about the wonderful work the Environmental Defenders Office does in fighting for environmental justice.  Now, for the first time, it is working to enable an Australian coal … Continue reading Action for week starting Monday 18.5.20 – Donate to the EDO Defence Fund →

Sign the petition to halt any changes to Australia’s central environmental protection law until the review into it is fully completed. The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is our government’s central piece of environmental law. It requires a review every ten years to examine the operation of the EPBC Act, and the extent … Continue reading Action for week starting 11.5.20 – Review of environmental protections petition →

Tell giant multinational General Electric to stop supporting outdated coal-fired energy. General Electric claims to support the Paris Climate Agreement but is currently equipping 18 new coal power stations across 16 countries, fuelling runaway climate change. Ask General Electric to end any further efforts to expand the coal sector, and restructure their business to shift … Continue reading Action for week starting 4.5.20 – Tell GE to get out of coal →