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The owner of Australia's dirtiest power plant, EnergyAustralia, has taken to the Murdoch press to sook about state climate and energy policy. The company is claiming that its power plant in Yallourn might close...

Victoria is feeling the impacts of the climate crisis now. In 2019 alone we have experienced dangerous heatwaves and bushfires across the state, crushing droughts, severe weather, and coastal erosion already eating away our...

Calling all Australian university students who are disheartened and disgusted by our nation’s unforgivably sluggish response to the climate crisis! Get yourselves down to the Uni Walkout for Climate Action in Melbourne on Friday August...

The countdown to climate action continues. The Andrews government has less than eight months to set the state’s first interim Emissions Reduction Targets.With climate deniers in the Federal Coalition and Murdoch media stalling climate...

A ‘green new deal’ proposal for a Fair and Just Transition from Friends of the Earth There is an urgent climate imperative to transform our economy. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report (2018)...

Transforming Victoria – creating jobs while cutting emissions. The Victorian economy is changing rapidly, and unless we have a plan for managing the transition, it will be people in affected industries who will bear...

The Victorian Parliament’s Environment & Planning Committee has announced an inquiry into community climate action. It will investigate what urban, regional, and rural communities are doing to tackle the climate crisis and how the...

Last Monday's episode of Four Corners revealed how tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are being used to expand irrigation systems for major agribusiness instead of preserving water for the environment. More than $4...

We are facing a climate crisis... Australia's emissions are rising due to the Federal Coalition's failure to act on climate. And this failure leaves Victorian communities exposed to intensifying impacts such as heatwaves, droughts, bushfires,...

The well-known and much-loved Quit Coal Victoria collective from Friends of the Earth Melbourne has decided to rename itself as the Energy Justice Victoria collective. We love our supporters and know many people are...