Category Archives: Action

We’re not making this up. Foreign investors can sue our governments for hundreds of billions of dollars if they believe a policy change will reduce their expected profits. This can happen when trade deals have Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses.

Macquarie Bank has made a new multi-million dollar investment decision to support and speed up Tamboran’s gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.

Tell Prime Minister Albanese and Environment Minister Watt to protect water, farmland, native habitat and our climate by refusing Whitehaven’s proposed Winchester South coal mine.

State and Federal Governments can do much more to protect nature. Here are two easy petitions to sign. Nature Conservation Council petition: End Native Forest Logging in NSW https://www.nature.org.au/end_native_forest_logging  Australian Conservation Foundation petition: Demand nature laws that actually protect nature.  https://www.acf.org.au/our-work/nature/environment-laws-petition 

This week, Action of the Week is a ‘clickathon’ as there are important letters and petitions demanding government and industry take stronger action on protecting earth for future generations.

It’s scandalous – a significant gas leak has been allowed to go on for decades, warming the planet and risking community health and safety.

The Great Barrier Reef is in danger, and not just from warming oceans. It is also being damaged by polluted fresh water runoff. Governments have committed to reduce the sediment and pesticide pollution but are missing their targets.

Major changes to Australian environment laws are needed if our natural environment is to be protected. That’s been clear for five years and the previous two parliaments.