Environment groups have called on the Australian accreditation body, Standards Australia, to reject a push by Australian forestry’s worst practitioners to formalise their operations as “world’s best practice” under an Australian Forestry Standard.

October 11, 2005

The Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, has released a plan to create a Greater Alpine National Park in Victoria, NSW and the ACT. The commendable elements of this proposal are completely eclipsed, however, by his intention to allow continued grazing by cattle in selected areas. Any continuation of grazing is against scientific consensus about the destructiuve impacts cows have on alpine ecosystems and waterways.

October 5 , 2005

A COALITION of environment and public health groups has branded nuclear energy dangerous, dirty and no solution to climate change in a new report.

The report Nuclear Energy: No Solution to Climate Change will be launched Thursday night at Northcote Town Hall by the president of the Medical Association for Prevention of War Dr Tilman Ruff.

October 5, 2005

Sovereign-Tea Party For The Protection Of Aboriginal Artefacts

Over twenty activists gathered outside the Department of Environment and Conservation offices in Sydney this morning calling for the protection of Aboriginal artefacts. Activists were serving sovereign-tea to the public and inviting passers by to engage in discussions over section 90 ‘Consent to Destroy’ permits of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.

Houston-based peace activist Scott Parkin, who had his visa revoked on Saturday 10 September when he was deemed a ‘threat to national security,’ will be deported at an undisclosed time today.

A coalition of environment and public heath groups today released a report challenging the argument – most recently put forward by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer – that nuclear power is 'clean' and a potential fix for climate change.

KURANDA'S RAIL NEEDS A FUTURE TOO!
Friends of the Earth Kuranda Media Release  

Paul Lucas, Queensland Minister for Transport and Main Roads, is proud of the Cairns Kuranda Scenic Railway and it's 'elite' status as an 'engineering landmark', but Friends of the Earth Kuranda believes that the Beattie Government - and its recent predecessors - should be ashamed of the under-utilization, squandering and effective loss to the community of a major regional public asset.

PROGRAM LAUNCH RELEASE:

WILD SPACES FILM FESTIVAL 2005 NATIONAL PROGRAM LAUNCH

8th Sept - 22nd Sept 

The 9th National Wild Spaces Film Festival has unveiled an exciting program of International and local films that are sure to inspire and entertain audiences across the country. 19 short films, animations and documentaries have been selected from over a hundred entries to screen nationally in over 20 regional centres and capital cities during the month of September. From Alice Springs to Denmark, Stawell to Atherton, Wild Spaces is touring around Australia, screening a program of inspire and inform.

‘Friends of the Earth Kuranda’ are calling on Queensland Premier Peter Beattie to protect the koala across its full geographical range by rejecting a local Council decision to approve a development threatening what may be the most northerly surviving population of wild koalas.

A report on the future of Australian wind farming released at the Wind Energy Association's international conference in Sydney today shows governments across Australia are failing their obligation to both our environment and Australian citizens by refusing to adequately support this growing industry.