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May Day: Stop the Olympic Dam Uranium Mine Expansion
February 07, 2014
On May 1, BHP Billiton will release the Environmental Impact Statement for its planned expansion of the Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) uranium/copper mine in SA. Come along to this May Day protest to voice...
Read More Add your reaction ShareRALLY AGAINST THE DESAL PLANT
February 07, 2014
For over two years, anti-desal campaigners have organised rallies, meetings, film showings, debates and briefings, outlining the real costs of this project and putting forward the practical alternatives to an energy guzzling desalination plant...
Read More Add your reaction ShareVale Auntie Liz Hoffman, Yorta Yorta Elder
February 07, 2014
Auntie Liz Hoffman died on Monday 6th April at home with family and friends. An extraordinary activist, leader and mother, she died on Yorta Yorta country, the country of her people for which she...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWe don't need the pipeline or desalination plant
February 07, 2014
Many people will have seen the front page story in this weeks' Sunday Age, which quotes 'top-level advice delivered to the State Government' that said that neither the desalination plant or North South pipeline...
Read More Add your reaction ShareAFTER THE FIRESTORM : Bushfires and Climate Change
February 07, 2014
Public forum: What role did climate change play in the Black Saturday fires? How can we ensure Victoria is protected from extreme fire events? Tuesday April 7
Read More Add your reaction ShareMelbourne Palm Sunday March
February 07, 2014
Please join the annual Palm Sunday rally for peace and disarmament. Sunday 5 April.
Read More Add your reaction ShareAlternative sources of water for Melbourne
February 07, 2014
This is the presentation made by Neil Rankine, outlining alternative sources of water to meet our needs now and into the future, without resorting to either the North South pipeline or desalination plant. It...
Read More Add your reaction ShareGarrett fails Victoria on desalination plant approval
February 07, 2014
Peak environment groups Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Environment Victoria have today joined local residents in condemning the Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett’s conditional approval of the desalination plant in Victoria.
Read More Add your reaction SharePublic forum: After the fires: sustainable water policy for Victoria
February 07, 2014
The state government's plan to deliver a secure water future for Melbourne is based on the desalination plant planned for the Gippsland coast near Wonthaggi and the North South pipeline, which will pump water...
Read More Add your reaction ShareStrzelecki Koala Appeal. $20,000 Fundraising Appeal
February 07, 2014
Friends of the Earth is asking for assistance in raising money to protect the Strzelecki Koala, the only 'genetically diverse' koala population left in Victoria and South Australia
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