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New polling from Essential Research shows voters back the Australian Labor Party’s commitment to a national goal of 50% renewable energy by 2030.

Today, Avant Card has started to distribute thousands of cards around Victoria urging people to support a permanent ban on unconventional gas drilling. With a state government Inquiry into this industry currently underway, this...

Friends of the Earth have criticised the senate inquiry into wind energy, branding it a witch-hunt and part of an ongoing campaign to demonise the technology (final report available here).

By now most of us are familiar with the little South Gippsland town of Mirboo North (population 2688 or thereabouts).  We know the name because it has been under siege by the threat of...

As Trade Ministers meet in Hawaii to continue the secret negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s Economic Justice Collective have released a paper titled ‘Fracking the Planet: How the Trans...

unconventional gas industry has no social license Friends of the Earth media release. July 22, 2015 New polling commissioned by The Greens highlights the strong opposition to the unconventional gas industry in metropolitan areas....

Friends of the Earth support the Latrobe Valley community’s call for GDF Suez (Engie) to pay the $18 million cost of fighting the Hazelwood coal mine fire.

Premier Daniel Andrews – Forward-looking on renewable energy.