H.E. Ms Marlene Inemwin Moses is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Nauru to the United Nations, and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

She gave this speech at the ANU as part of the Crawford Barton Lecture Series, on Tuesday 19 February 2013.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Good evening.

Chain Reaction #117 − April 2013

National Magazine of Friends of the Earth, Australia

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In this edition:

·         Gillard's 'green tape' propaganda

·         Dangerous ingredients in sunscreen and cosmetics

·         Indigenous communities, conservation and the resource boom

·         Deep Sea Mining − The Pacific Experiment

·         River Red Gums face new threat

It’s the next wave of destruction for our native forests. The forestry and energy industries are now poised to unleash their plans to feed our forests into furnaces to produce electricity, convert them into bio-fuels, and into pellets for export.  This will mean more destruction of forests and their wildlife, and release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

Industry calls this ‘renewable energy’.  It wants the government to help pay for it in the form of ‘renewable energy certificates’ and other subsidies at the community’s expense.

 

MEDIA RELEASE - 25 March 2013

The PM’s cabinet reshuffle is a missed opportunity when it comes to Australia’s climate and energy politics.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced Gary Gray as Australia’s new Minister for Resources and Energy, who will oversee the conflicting portfolios of energy and resources under one roof.

High Risk – Low Returns: the case against uranium mining in Queensland is the NGO and civil society response to the LNPs undemocratic decision to go ahead with uranium mining in our state.

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 14 March 2013
 

CounterAct is a new affiliate member of Friends of the Earth and has been launched to support communities in taking effective, creative, strategic nonviolent direct action on issues of environmental and social justice.
 
CounterAct the corporate-government system with training and skills to grow your community or campaign. Learn and share your experiences with other activists and community campaigners. CounterAct will be providing training in direct action skills and community organising across Australia.

Today, Lock the Gate Alliance have launched our Call to Country. It's a call from the heart of this country, and the people who love it, to demand real action to restrict inappropriate coal and gas mining. Our new mapping shows that 437 million hectares of our land is covered by coal and gas licences or applications. That's more than half of Australia and an area 18 times the size of Great Britain.

New testing from the National Measurement Institute (NMI) has revealed that many Australian sunscreen and cosmetic products still contain anatase titanium dioxide, despite years of warnings of its extreme potential to generate free radicals - which could damage DNA and protein.