We believe Australia needs to take urgent steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition our economy to a low carbon future based on 100% renewable energy.

In this subcampaign of 350.org's council divestment campaign, CASES are targetting three eastern suburbs councils – Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra – who have a joint Sustainability programme.

2015 and a sneaky snap election has caught many people napping, but here at CAFNEC we are well into implementing an election campaign plan. This election we will have a strong focus on the reef with our vote for the reef campaign and we will be producing an election report card and other materials so we can all make an informed voting decision based on the candidates policies on local and state-wide environmental issues.

Fifty-two percent or 4,000 hectares of Bimblebox will be cleared to make way for this massive open cut mine. The remainder of the Nature Refuge will be at risk of subsidence due to underground mining. This campaign calls on the State government to close an environmental offset "loophole".

Although we have put up with the environmental impacts of coal mining in Queensland in the past, the forecast boom in mining development will create a massive degradation of the environment which is no longer acceptable.