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Gippsland is Precious – Film Premiere

City and country come together to oppose CSG threat to ‘precious’ Gippsland Metropolitan activists launched a campaign this week to support the increasing resistance to coal and coal seam gas mining...

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Get off the coal train and on track with renewables, Denis!

When Napthine stepped up to the plate after Baillieu’s swift and teary departure, we saw a glimmer of hope for a state that seemed doomed to a future shadowed by mountains of dirty coal. After all,...

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K.Rudd back in the hot seat on climate as temperatures rise

by Noah Beecher Kelk No matter how you felt about Gillard, or the circumstances surrounding her exit from political life, we have to work with what we’ve got. While our first female prime minister made...

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Help us support Gippsland communities fighting coal and gas mining

by Ursula Alquier Gippsland Local, Quit Coal Campaigner  & Coordinator Lock the Gate Victoria DONATE For over eighteen months now Quit Coal has been supporting communities across Gippsland –...

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Here, hold my ETS, while I just go pay for that nice new coal-fired power...

by Noah Beecher Kelk When the carbon tax was rolled out there was a lot of noise from everyone. Labor and the Greens were saying they’d saved the world while the Liberal-Nationals were complaining...

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Farmers Against Fracking

……………………………………….. A peaceful gathering showcasing what’s at risk from the planned expansion of Victoria’s coal and unconventional gas industries. We will be handing over our 10,000 strong petition to...

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Farmers against Fracking come to town!

Thanks to all of you who came and joined Sunday’s awesome “Farmers against Fracking” rally! If you missed out (do not fear, there will be plenty more opportunities to be part of the campaign!), here’s...

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Give Your Loved One’s No Coal This Christmas!

Every holiday season we all face a dilemma. We’d love to give gifts to those we cherish, but we don’t want the unnecessary consumption and environmental damage that so much holiday giving involves....

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Quit Coal climbs Yallourn: The Longest Power Station Occupation in...

On Thursday, two Quit Coal volunteers climbed up one of the cooling towers at Yallourn Power Station. It was a direct challenge to the handouts the Federal Government is giving to the power station and...

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Poowong: Victoria’s first community to declare itself Coal and CSG free

by Chloe Aldenhoven Its 11am, quiet and hot at the Poowong footy oval. Soon the cars start rolling in, and it feels like a stop-motion animation as suddenly the empty footy ground is filled with cars...

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Gina’s Coming to Town

by Katy Smyrk You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why. Gina Rinehart is coming to town! And given Ms Rinehart’s voracious appetite for exploiting the land to...

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Gippsland is Precious – Film Premiere

by Chloe Aldenhoven City and country come together to oppose CSG threat to ‘precious’ Gippsland Metropolitan activists launched a campaign this week to support the increasing resistance to coal and...

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Get off the coal train and on track with renewables, Denis!

by Livia Cullen When Napthine stepped up to the plate after Baillieu’s swift and teary departure, we saw a glimmer of hope for a state that seemed doomed to a future shadowed by mountains of dirty...

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Lakes Oil to frack Seaspray

by Livia Cullen We told you Gina Rinehart was coming to town. Well, she’s arrived and here’s what she’s been up to. In the dark of night on Monday 13th May, Lakes Oil slipped a letter into the...

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Concerned residents ‘shocked’ by state of gas wells

by Maude Farrugia On Saturday (25th May) an alliance of groups from across Gippsland came together to survey several tight gas wells in the Seaspray area. Some of the wells had been fracked in the...

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K.Rudd back in the hot seat on climate as temperatures rise

by Noah Beecher Kelk No matter how you felt about Gillard, or the circumstances surrounding her exit from political life, we have to work with what we’ve got. While our first female prime minister made...

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Help us support Gippsland communities fighting coal and gas mining

by Ursula Alquier Gippsland Local, Quit Coal Campaigner  & Coordinator Lock the Gate Victoria DONATE For over eighteen months now Quit Coal has been supporting communities across Gippsland –...

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