Category Archives: Action

This week’s Action of the Week is a ‘clickathon’ with three petitions. One is to protect the world’s oceans and two are about gas exports. These are quick actions for busy people to do on the run, anywhere at anytime.

It’s nearly state budget time, and time to tell the Treasurer we object to spending millions of taxpayer dollars on destroying our native forests taking away the benefits they provide.

Laws that provide protection of the rights of Traditional Owners are being undermined by Liberal governments in Queensland and the Northern Territory. New laws are giving priority to developers over protecting Country, water and cultural heritage.

In the next week Murray Watt plans to make a very big and consequential decision about the North West Shelf gas project. He’s brand new in the Environment job but hasn’t spoken to the Traditional Owners about the Murujuga rock art. Nor has he spoken to the other opponents of extending this climate bomb forContinue reading “Action of the Week 25 May 2025”

The Albanese government has expressed opposition to deep sea mining for metals and has called for a moratorium on it. That’s an important step, and now it’s time to put up a fight about it. In July the International Seabed Authority will meet to decide whether to stop this new devasting industry or unleash itContinue reading “Action of the Week 19 May 2025”

Voters said a very loud NO to the LNP’s nuclear fantasy, which was designed to keep coal and gas expanding for decades. There was also a strong vote for the transition to renewables.

Market Forces are tracking the big banks’ investments in massive gas fracking projects in the Beetaloo basin in the NT, and the huge APA gas pipelines going north and south-east from the Beetaloo. It’s a horror story. Please sign the Market Forces open letter to the big banks.

The warming of ocean temperatures is a major factor in the climate emergency and the extreme weather events we are experiencing. Australia’s coral reefs are bleaching and marine ecosystems are being lost.

We have legislation to regulate climate pollution so we meet the state’s legislated emissions targets. We have a Net Zero Commission – an independent group responsible for providing advice to the government about meeting the targets. Their first report sounds the alarm that we aren’t on track and that the 20 new coal projects inContinue reading “Action of the Week 14 April 2025”

Pet cats can be wonderful companions but they are also highly efficient predators, hard wired to hunt and kill birds, lizards and small mammals. They kill 66 million just in Sydney each year. They can’t help themselves, so we need regulations to keep them at home.