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'Choose Nuclear Free' Website Launched Today
www.choosenuclearfree.net is being launched by Friends of the Earth and the Medical Association for Prevention of War. The website contains a wide range of resources − details of political parties' nuclear policies and an animated policy graphic; a summary of key nuclear issues; videos, cartoons and music; and election-related resources to help Australians who 'Choose Nuclear Free'.
Launch of the Nuclear Freeways campaign
This Friday July 30th marks the launch of Friends of the Earths Nuclear Freeways campaign. A delegation of Friends of the Earth members and Batman electorate residents will travel over 3,000ks on one of the proposed routes for the transport for Australia's radioactive waste.
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Climate White Paper a Game Changer
The Victorian government has taken a bold step forward and substantially advanced the climate debate with the release of the final details of its White Paper on climate change.
Gillard climate policy: a little bit of action, a whole lot of talk
National environment environment organisation Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) has expressed dismay at the announcement of Prime Minister Gillard’s much anticipated climate change policy.
Underground coal gasification plants must all be shut down now
The decision by the Department of Resource Management to shut down Cougar Energy's underground coal gasification (UCG) plant at Kingaroy is welcome but far too late. In fact, this plant and two others like it should never have been given the go-ahead by the Queensland Government in the first place given what is known (and what is not known) about the impacts of this technology.
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Feast of Film, film festival in Adelaide
Friends of the Earth's Feast of Film, a film festival about good food and farming, is back for 2010! Over six weeks, the Feast of Film will offer fortnightly screenings (on July 31, August 14 and 28) of some of the best international films about good food, agriculture and community, including the very special August 28 world premiere of `An Urban Orchard', a celebration of food gardening and sharing on the Adelaide Plains.
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Position Available – Nanotechnology Project Campaigner (4 or 5 days/ week, negotiable)
The Friends of the Earth Australia Nanotechnology Project is seeking a dynamic campaigner. The role is focussed on alliance building and outreach, communications work and volunteer management. Key functions of the position are to raise the profile of nanotechnology issues within civil society and to help create opportunities for growth of the Nanotechnology Project.
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Going Going Gone? The Plight of the Southern Cassowary
Friends of the Earth has supported today's launch of a nationwide campaign, Save the Cassowary. The endangered Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) perches on the edge of extinction with perhaps as few as 1000 remaining in the tropical rainforests of Far North Queensland.
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Chain Reaction #109 out now
Chain Reaction is the national magazine of Friends of the Earth Australia. Edition #109 is now available on-line. Feature: The Future of Food. Plus: the national radioactive waste dump, NSW Red Gums protected, opportunities open up for conservation in Tasmania, water quality issues in Victoria, traditional owners in the Australian Alps, geo engineering and much more.
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Unions, community groups want safeguards for health, environment and labour rights in US-Trans Pacific trade pact
Thirty Australian unions and community groups today asked the Trade Minister to safeguard the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australian local content in media, regulation of GE food, regulation of foreign investment and industry policies that support local employment in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations which start on Monday March 15.
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Indigenous solidarity gathering
The Friends of the Earth International Indigenous Solidarity Gathering schedule for July 9 -11 has now merged with the Defending Indigenous Rights Conference in Alice Springs. The new Gathering days are from 6 -11 of July 2010.
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