The state government has announced a consultation process to determine community attitudes to onshore gas drilling. This includes the ‘unconventional’ gases – CSG, tight gas and shale gas. We appreciate that the government wants...

Over the last 6 months Friends of the Earth has been involved in a project mapping population numbers of the Strzelecki Koala. The Strzelecki Koala is the only remnant koala population remaining in Victoria...

Friends of the Earth media release. June 24, 2014 An Australia Institute report released today shows the remarkable level of support given to the mining industry by state governments. It shows that each state...

Media Alert – Friends of the Earth 16th June 2014 Friends of the Earth today condemned the state and federal governments’ decision to subsidise Shanghai Electric’s plan to establish a brown coal export industry...

The Barmah-Millewa Collective has been working closely with Indigenous and environmental organisations to push for a fundamental reform in water management: recognition of the water rights of Australia's First Nations. Read on for an...

MEDIA RELEASE – 3 June, 2014 Friends of the Earth call on Premier Denis Napthine to clarify the Victorian government’s position on the Renewable Energy Target.

Join us to rally for public transport not traffic for our city! Fund public transport, not the East-West Link. Saturday 28 June at 1pm

Support Muckaty Traditional Owners on World Environment Day For the past seven years there has been sustained community opposition to a federal government plan to dump Australia's radioactive waste on Aboriginal land at Muckaty...

Friends of the Earth (FoE) has welcomed the Victorian government’s announcement that it will put the brakes on the onshore gas sector for 12 months. Energy Minister Russell Northe will today knock back the...

PLEASE NOTE that today's planned ride has been cancelled as a result of yesterday's announcement by the government. On thursday May 29, community members from Seaspray in Gippsland will ride horses up Bourke Street...