Environment

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Initiatives

Petition

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels

Petition

✍️ SIGN NOW: Ban fossil fuel lobbyists from COP31

Petition

Fix Australia’s Gas Export Problem

Petition

Help Protect the Murujuga Rock Art from Destruction

Petition

End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour

Petition

Level the Playing Field – Not Native Forests

Project

Gas: The Facts

Petition

End Fracking in the NT

Project

Coal Mine Tracker

Petition

100+ Australian Scientists and Experts Call For No New Fossil Fuel Projects

Project

Hunter Valley Mine Watch

Murray-Darling Basin

Project

The National Climate Disaster Fund

Latest Research

Energy from Fossil Fuels, Fossil Fuel Mining, Tax, Spending & the Budget

Understanding the December 2025 gas policy scramble

December 8, 2025 by Rod Campbell and Mark Ogge

Biodiversity, Environment & Jobs

Report on the Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025

Payments to destroy and lessons not learned

November 26, 2025 by Frances Medlock and Fergus Green

Fossil Fuel Mining, International Relations

Australia Last: The failure of Australian gas policy

November 3, 2025 by Matt Saunders and Richard Denniss

Consumerism & Waste

Submission to NSW Select Committee on Proposed Energy from Waste Facilities

October 31, 2025 by Jack Thrower and Rod Campbell

Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Mining

Submission – Wilpinjong Coal Mine extension proposal

October 30, 2025 by Rod Campbell

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Latest News

Opinion

The great gas rip off: how the government can stop us all getting burned

December 5, 2025 by Ebony Bennett in The Canberra Times

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen speak to media during a press conference in Sydney, Thursday, September 18, 2025.

Media Release

The only thing that can save the environment is stopping new gas and coal

November 27, 2025

Opinion

Why it’s the perfect time for the Albanese government to defy the mining lobbies

November 20, 2025 by Rod Campbell in The New Daily

Mike Rann: Gas lobby using “tobacco tactics” to keep polluting, tax breaks

November 14, 2025

Former Greens leader Bob Brown speaks to climate change activists, protesting outside Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, February 4, 2020.

Podcast: Follow the Money

Defending nature with Bob Brown

November 12, 2025 featuring Ebony Bennett

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