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In Victoria, after a mild spring with above average rainfalls, it looks like this summer might provide a low key fire season. In it’s early summer Bushfire Outlook, the AFAC (the National Council for...

If successful, the Court will entirely overturn the decision to locate the facility at Napandee by quashing the Minister’s declaration.

As more and more offshore oil and gas infrastructure is being developed around Australia, it is important to remember the tragic events in the history of this industry that have taken lives, destroyed ecosystems...

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...

Fires are part of life here in Australia. Many of our landscapes are fire adapted or fire reliant, and First Nations people have been using fire for millennia to manage and craft the landscapes...

A group of Gippsland businesses and stakeholders gathered in Sale last week to discuss the opportunity to kickstart a renewable energy sector in the region.

The battle to safeguard Victoria and South Australia's only endemic koala population has taken a strange twist. Information has come to light revealing that the breeding program associated with the current koala removals from...

Welcome to Friends of the Earth Melbourne December news our state-wide monthly update.  Check out FoE’s policy platform, make the switch to Co-operative Power, support a legal challenge to Kimba nuclear waste dump, and much...

Friends of the Earth is concerned that an unspecified number of young male Strzelecki koalas will be soon on their way to South Australia "as part of a breeding program aimed at saving the...

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