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Campaign Updates
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In other news...

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FoE Brisbane now has a twitter feed! Keep up to date with news, events and action opportunities in real time...
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Have you listened in yet to Real World Radio - Friends of the Earth's radio station?

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We're still taking donations and sourcing volunteers to support further work on our office space in 2012. Help us fund an awesome graffiti art mural with local artists and install sky lights.

Contact steve.skitmore @foe.org.au to get involved.

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Welcome back to the FoEB update after a couple of months' hiatus.

Things have been very busy since the beginning of the year, so we're excited to take the chance to send an update about what's been going on. Watch out next month for all the upcoming events and resources from FoE :)

FoE Brisbane Campaign Updates

Our new home!

After over a year of renovations and hard slog - we have finally moved into our new office in the Gabba. Thanks for all your support to help us get to this point and to be able to continue our campaigning work. Next time you're around Burke Street, feel free to drop by!

Coal and CSG News 

Many of you would have been to one of the coal and gas events last month, from the packed convention centre "Food Security Forum" MC'd by the enigmatic Alan Jones, or to the standing-room only Queensland premiere of Bimblebox.

Celebrations are in order after Campbell Newman re-affirmed his pre-election commitments and canned the mining projects at Acland and Felton. This is a huge win, especially for the local communities in those areas who have fought so tenaciously for so long. Hats off to the Friends of Felton, The Oakey Coal Action Alliance, Glen Beutel and Sid, Merrilyn and Tanya Plant.

The bad news is that on Wednesday, the Wandoan Megamine, the largest coal mine in the southern hemisphere, got 'recommended' by the land court, with only minor concessions to the local landholders, and was found to have no responsibility for the greenhouse gas impacts of the mine. So begins the long slog to change this - perhaps starting with an appeal.

See more at www.sixdegrees.org.au.

Walk for a Future!

We also welcomed June Norman and Potts Driscoll back from their epic 500 km "walk for a future". The pair walked from the start of the coal railway and gas pipeline in the Surat Basin all the way to Gladstone harbour to meet the UNESCO delegation.

Click here to see photos and videos from the walk.

Climate Frontlines - our plans for 2012



Down to the small number of 4 local members and one temporarily in WA, the collective is planning a number of activities to focus on resettlement issues for Pacific Island communities struggling with the impacts of climate change. Emma Brindal is in the last stages of completing a research paper on climate change and Pacific migration, with particular focus on Australia’s policies. The CFC plans to print and publicise this paper in May, and to use it as an advocacy tool.


Down to the small number of 4 local members and one temporarily in WA, the collective is planning a number of activities to focus on resettlement issues for Pacific Island communities struggling with the impacts of climate change. Emma Brindal is in the last stages of completing a research paper on climate change and Pacific migration, with particular focus on Australia’s policies. The CFC plans to print and publicise this paper in May, and to use it as an advocacy tool.

The collective continues to convene the broader Friends of Tulele Peisa group, supporting the resettlement program of the Carteret Islands people in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. With two recent generous donations, the group has been able to achieve its fundraising target for an outboard motor and navigation equipment, to facilitate links between those who have resettled and their communities in the Carterets.

On 16th March, the CFC convenor, Wendy Flannery, was interviewed by 3CR radio (Melbourne) on recent news reports about the purchase of land in Fiji by the government of Kiribati as part of its response to the challenges of climate change.  3CR is keen to keep in touch with and promote the CFC's activities.

The collective would warmly welcome new members to help plan and implement these exciting initiatives. Contact  wendy.flannery@gmail.com 

Peace and Nuclear Free News




In PACE news lately, Rosemarie went to the National Conference and found it very inspiring. The conference sent a message of support to the people at Fukishima apologising for Australia’s involvement in the disaster by suppling the uranium in the Fukishima reactors and raising the awareness that the Honeymoon uranium mine was half owned by a Japanese company. The Roxby Downs Indenture Act, one of the worst cases of a government/ business collusion legislation was also discussed (particularly it’s immunity from Freedom from Information legislation) and the strategy for alerting ethical investors that some of their super funds are invested in BHP.

We are also organising our data base and working through design ideas for the new edition of the Irradiation Free Food Guide. Hopefully we will have Alex as guest expert in design modalities.

Robin has written an article on food irradiation for Chain Reaction and a submission by Robin to Food Standards Australia New Zealand and the Ministerial Council was a substantive contribution to the Court taken out against FSANZ for malpractise by the Ethical Food Standards lobby group.

Thanks for your support

Thanks for your continued support of grassroots environmental advocacy with FoE, we really couldn't do any of our work without our members and supporters!

You can either volunteer with a campaign collective and become a front-line activist, organising protests, actions, blockades and rallies; or help out behind the scenes, researching and writing reports and submissions, and helping with the day-to-day running of the organisation.

Or if you're short on time and still want to support, why not consider an ongoing donation to fund our crucial work?

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