Transcanada's Keystone XL Suit illustrates problem with TPP, Trade deals

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secret trade agreement that will adversely affect the environment, worker’s rights, cost of medicines, internet freedoms, food safety, intellectual property rights and indigenous rights.

Introducing the GM–Free Australia Alliance

The GM–Free Australia Alliance has joined FoE Australia as an affiliate member. Welcome aboard! For a full list of our affiliates, please check here.

The GM–Free Australia Alliance Inc is an independent not-for-profit alliance of groups and individuals sharing common concerns about the threat of Genetic Manipulation (GM) of food and crops in Australia.

2015 visual diary

As another big year comes to a close, here are some highlights from our year.

Hope you have a great summer, get out amongst nature with friends and family, and recharge. See you in 2016!

JANUARY

Environment groups assess performance of SA nuclear Royal Commission

Royal Commission vs Community Permission

MEDIA RELEASE, 17 December 2015

Australian regulators set to sneak new GM crops untested and unlabelled into our food

A new Friends of the Earth report reveals that our regulators are planning to allow foods derived from a range of new genetic modification (GM) techniques untested and unlabelled onto our supermarket shelves and that they have misled the Senate on the issue.

A reportback from the frontline of climate change

Paris climate negotiations. What was it like? What's next?

Ursula Rakova, the director of Tulele Peisa, responsible for relocating Carteret Island families forced to move to Bougainville because of climate change, has gained international recognition for her work.

Global palm oil companies and financiers responsible for Indonesian peat fires

MEDIA ADVISORY
December 8, 2015

Chain Reaction magazine out now

Chain Reaction #125 − November 2015

National Magazine of Friends of the Earth, Australia

Read online at archive.foe.org.au/chain-reaction/editions/125 or subscribe (details below).

CONTENTS:

Challenging the privatised university:

New report on financing climate action: Richest 782 people could power half the world with 100% renewable energy

The personal fortunes of the 782 wealthiest people on the planet, many CEOs of major corporations, could power Africa, Latin America and most of Asia with 100% renewable energy by 2030, said Friends of the Earth International in a new report released today. [1]

Academics challenge the privatised university

Monday, 23rd November

Academics from across Australia and New Zealand are descending on Brisbane for the next two days to discuss how to challenge the increasing corporatisation of universities, which is drastically reducing the quality of research and academic life. Challenging the Privatised University is being co-hosted by Friends of the Earth, the Ngara Institute, the NTEU, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the National Alliance for Public Universities and aims to support the revitalisation of the public and intellectual importance of Universities.

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