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As Yes 2 Renewables coordinator, nothing fires me up more than job losses. Too many good people have been retrenched due to the Abbott government’s prolonged attack on the national Renewable Energy Target. People from welders and...

The Abbott government has become more isolated with its attack on renewables.

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...

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...

The town of Morwell shrouded by toxic coal ash and smoke during the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire.

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...

The Australian and Senator John Madigan aren’t even pretending the current senate wind energy inquiry is impartial. Both have referred to the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines as an “inquisition.”

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...

What a vista!… One of Portland’s four wind farms.

As the policking around the Renewable Energy Target continues in Canberra, communities in regional Victoria are standing up for the scheme.