The latest Mackay-Whitsunday Waterway Health report card continues to highlight the region’s poor water quality despite years of effort and millions of dollars to clean it up. Regulations will be required to improve water quality and protect the Great Barrier Reef.

The Australian government is using our money to prop up dirty fossil fuels. You can also sign the petition below, calling on the government to end polluter handouts.

In 2015 the Australian government controversially legislated to include the burning of native forest biomass into the Renewable Energy Target (RET). Markets for Change sent a questionnaire requesting support for the removal of native forest biomass from the RET to all candidates standing in the 2016 federal election campaign.

The Lane Cove Sustainability Action Group have, for some years now actively engaged in a fight against plastic pollution. Our actions have taken place locally as well as across the state and include active support for a proposed Container Deposit Scheme

The coal seam gas (CSG) export industry in Australia is causing gas prices to rise. The solution is for Australian Governments to introduce measures to protect Australian consumers and businesses from the price hike now and into the future, such as a national interest test, and to support alternative sources of energy that are safe and don't threaten our land and water.