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Indigenous Protected Areas under threat from Government cuts
May 01, 2015
Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) are lands owned by Indigenous people and voluntarily managed for conservation. There are currently 60 declared IPAs, covering land three times the size of Victoria! IPAs are recognised as providing...
Read More Add your reaction ShareThe Change Course 2015
April 27, 2015
Practical skills for advocacy and campaigning Are you working on issues in your local community? Would you like to improve your skills to win better campaign outcomes? This course takes place over one month...
Read More Add your reaction ShareFoEA turns 40
April 15, 2015
This year Friends of the Earth Australia is turning 40! (Well, actually we're 41 but were too busy last year to organise a party).Please join us to celebrate four decades of creative resistance and...
Read More Add your reaction Share5 steps every #FriendOfFoE needs to take
April 12, 2015
Friends of the Earth are under attack. But this is just the beginning of an ideological war by the government against all environmental groups. On the ABC 730 show aired April 10, Liberal MPs...
Read More Add your reaction ShareFrackman showing in Victoria
April 01, 2015
Accidental activist Dayne ‘The Frackman’ Pratzky takes us on a journey through a divided land as we meet people caught up in a modern day multinational gold rush – to secure and exploit coal...
Read More Add your reaction ShareProposal to ‘refresh’ Plan Melbourne a good move
March 27, 2015
Friends of the Earth welcomes the announcement by the Planning Minister Richard Wynne that he will reappoint the ministerial advisory committee put in place by his predecessor Matthew Guy to write Plan Melbourne. Plan...
Read More Add your reaction ShareRed Gum National Park Cattle Ban Welcome
March 18, 2015
Friends of the Earth Melbourne has congratulated the Andrews Labor Government for putting forward legislation to ban grazing in the Alpine and River Red Gum national parks.
Read More Add your reaction ShareSustainable Breakfast
March 10, 2015
3CR Community Radio is hosting a sustainable breakfast series from 23 - 27 March at Friends of the Earth in Collingwood. Each morning 3CR breakfast presenters will speak with activists and campaigners working on...
Read More Add your reaction ShareCommunities must have the right to veto mining
February 25, 2015
Friends of the Earth media release. February 25, 2015. The Victorian National Party has announced that it supports farmers having the right to veto gas drilling operations on their land. “We are heartened to...
Read More Add your reaction ShareHands off the Tasmanian World Heritage Area
February 24, 2015
FoE Info night. The Tasmanian Liberal Government are planning to allow logging, private accommodation and up to 16 aircraft landing sites in the iconic Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The natural and cultural values of this...
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