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If you’re concerned about environmental issues and the urgent need to rapidly reduce the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, it’s hard not to get depressed. The Australian government is cutting climate action programs and turning...

Friends of the Earth today hand delivered a submission to the Victorian Red Tape Commissioner calling for the Napthine government’s anti-wind farm laws to be investigated.

What does ‘Ecological Thinning’ mean for your National Parks? The NSW State governments plan to run a trial of “ecological thinning” inside the Murray Valley National Park. The trial will use logging machinery to...

The community-owned Hepburn Wind Farm, located in the seat of Macedon.

The Coalition’s anti-wind farm laws is front-page news in the contested seat of Macedon.

The Victorian Coalition Government has today released its energy policy document, Victoria’s Energy Statement. The plan has drawn criticism from renewable energy advocates at Friends of the Earth. The government’s plan takes a “business as usual” approach that fails...

The Victorian Coalition Government has today released its energy policy document, Victoria’s Energy Statement.

The Coalition government’s current inability to consider a standard of climate change policy that reflects the serious warnings from the U.N seems perpetuated by denial around the issue from within the party. This article...

A picture of the People’s Climate March in Kyneton.

The Green Pledge is a new Friends of the Earth campaign that involves taking 5 personal actions for one week to limit your carbon emissions to 50% of the average Australian. By getting friends and...