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Organisations and grassroots groups across Victoria are standing together for a Gas Free Vic, with a recently emerged network penning a Joint Statement for Getting Victoria Off Gas. Add your signature to the statement...

This issue of our poster newsletter addressed these false solutions to the climate crisis and includes stories from FoE campaigners and collectives through an anticapitalist, anticolonial lens.  

With a strong gold price, applications for mining exploration continue to spread across regional Victoria. In Central Victoria, the North East and Gippsland, a growing number of local groups are forming to oppose this...

This week our host Phil Evans tries to inspire you to action by getting involved at Friends of the Earth.

Victoria is the biggest user of gas in Australia. While polluting companies continue to promote fossil gas as a "transition fuel," communities are resisting new gas developments and calling for a rapid shift away...

It's our first update of 2022 and it's fair to say that the mighty Act on Climate collective is fired up. With a Federal election in months and a state election in November, we're hitting...

MEDIA RELEASE: 31 January 2022Friends of the Earth response to the Andrews govt's climate targets panel announcementThe Andrews government has announced the independent expert panel that will advise it on the next round of...

In late January, Friends of the Earth did another visit to an area which VicForests have decided to clearfell in the southern Strzelecki Ranges. The area known as the Jack River block, is about...

Friends of the Earth recently held its first citizen science fieldtrip to map areas of Snow Gum forests in the Victorian mountains. These forests are largely protected in national parks but are threatened by...

Update 21/10/24: Announcement of proposed a review to Australian Drinking Water Guidelines. PFOS and PFHxS to be possibly reduced from 70ng/L to 4ng/L and 30ng/L respectively. PFOA to be possibly reduced from 560ng/L to...