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Public Forum

No New Coal and Gas Public Forum

If Australia’s fossil fuel export plan succeeds, world action on global warming will fail. Yet, Australia continues to ramp up fossil fuel production in the face of international backlash. Join us at St Kilda Town Hall for this special event, to find out about Australia’s plans for vast new export coal mines and gas fields, despite calls by the International Energy Agency, United Nations as well as scientists and civil society organisations from Australia and around the world to stop all new investment in fossil fuels.

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Protect Tasmania's Native Forests

Congratulations to Victoria for ending native forest logging. Let this be the year Tasmania protects its magnificent, globally significant forests

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Ban Consulting Firms Who Breach Public Trust

Consulting firms who leak confidential information and breach public trust should be banned from winning government contracts.

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Beetaloo Basin: Ban Fracking in the Northern Territory

96 Leading Australian Scientists & Experts Call on NT Government to ban fracking

Stop new coal mine approvals

Coal Mine Tracker

Coal Mine Tracker monitors the 26 coal mine projects currently awaiting federal government approval and their lifetime emissions. The Federal Environment Minister has the power to reject them.

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