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MEDIA RELEASE: 3 December 2021 Friends of the Earth response to the Australian Labor Party’s climate policy packageThe Australian Labor Party has released its long-awaited policy to tackle the climate crisis as the Parliamentary...

After many months of disruption, we are welcoming the summer with a new cooking calendar for 2022, volunteer opportunities and covid-safe guidelines for shoppers, and diners at the Friends of the Earth Food Co-op...

JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT: Thursday 2 DecemberVictorian National Parks Association, Birdlife Australia, Environment Justice Australia, Environment Victoria, Friends of the Earth (Melbourne), The Wilderness Society.From Greater Gliders in native forests to Regent Honeyeaters in the...

It's our last update of 2021. It has been another epic year on the campaign trail and we can all be proud of our efforts under difficult conditions. Our network has remained strong and...

New research by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, shows that climate change has driven a ‘significant increase’ in Australia’s forest fire activity over the last three decades. A lengthening of the fire season towards...

The Bass Coast community has been sounding the alarm about climate impacts on the coast for over a decade. The region has observed significant coastal erosion from rising sea levels and intensifying storm surges. Citizen science...

A damning new report has revealed Victoria’s state-owned logging agency, VicForests, is failing to regrow native forests after logging. Watch the video, read the report & share with your local MP below. 

In early July this year, Alberton West residents notified FoEM that their remnant bushland home to many threatened species was to be logged by Vicforests. Alberton West forest is home to the genetically significant...

Kalbar Resources, a company that has no mining experience, proposed a mineral sands and rare earths mine at Glenaladale, near Bairnsdale in East Gippsland.   After several years of investigation, the Minister for Planning...

  Media Release ‒ 29 November 2021   The Morrison government's plan to impose a national nuclear waste dump at Kimba still faces multiple hurdles despite today's announcement from Minister Keith Pitt that the...