While in Alice Springs Nannas Anne and Kathy caught up with Hannah Ekin from the Arid Lands Environment Centre. We were very keen to have an update on what is happening with NT gas.
Category Archives: Explainer
Nanna Messages for NSW Pollies
On Tuesday Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends gathered outside the first sitting of the NSW parliament following their winter break. We encouraged all MPs to do better, especially on the causes of climate change and the degradation of the environment.
Climate Trigger Explainer
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act (EPBC) requires the Federal Government to assess and determine whether to approve new projects that have impacts on nine “matters of national environmental significance (‘MNES’)”. Commonly referred to as Triggers, these are:
Polly Hemming talks to Nannas in Canberra
Polly Hemming hung out with the Nannas for a couple of hours when we were on the lawn at Parliament House in Canberra recently. Polly is the Director of the Australia Institute’s Climate & Energy program.
Atlas Network Update 2026
Late 2023 Nannas became aware of the Atlas Network, an international organisation that funds and facilitates the development of neo-liberal right-wing think tanks. The talking points of the Institute for Public Affairs’ (IPA) have been pushed out by far-right politicians and the Murdoch Media for many years. But Atlas is something even more sinister.
Breaking: Clear fell logging started in Pine Creek State Forest Saturday
What community forestry activists have feared is happening right now: Forestry Corp has started logging compartment 14 of the Pine Creek State Forest within the boundaries of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP).
Mid Coast Forestry Devastation
Nanna Chris Degan joined the Sydney Knitting Nannas Zoom meeting on 6 October and filed the following report on logging on the Mid North Coast in the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) and the local activities organised to stop it.
The Pilliga – Big Fire County
Volunteer, Peter Humphriss, is a founding member of Remote Area Fire Team (RAFT) for the Castlereagh Zone, and Fire Captain of Dandry Brigade. Peter could not attend the rally Back the Gomeroi against Santos: Rally and Roadtrip on 12 August as he was running a remote area fire training weekend for new recruits in Wollongong.
CSG – the process
The following is a speech by Mallaley farmer, Margaret Fleck, delivered at the recent Back the Gomeroi against Santos Rally and Road Trip at Coonabarabran and Narrabri.
Why we’re campaigning on water
Tracey Carpenter, from Water for Rivers, was a guest speaker at the Sydney Nannas weekly Zoom on Friday to promote events to be held in Sydney next week on the Murray-Darling Basin. The following are her speaker notes with more information on the importance of our rivers and how to look after them.