Deputy Premier Seeney has just announced that he had forsaken sea dumping and had found a site for onshore disposal – something that until then had been deemed, after a number of assessments by consultants for the proponents, to be infeasible on environmental and/or technical and/or economic grounds

LEAN is calling on the Labor party to adopt the recommendation of its own expert body – the Climate Change Authority – and adopt a “19% plus” emissions reduction target. LEAN is asking Labor members to pass the following resolution at their branches and Federal Electoral Councils to encourage the Federal Labor Party to enact a higher emissions reduction target

50% renewables and 50% pollution reduction to be achieved by 2031. LEAN volunteers spread across the country and visited local branches and any other party units they could find.

The Climate Frontlines campaign and the sub-group, Friends of Tulele Peisa, are focused on those at the frontlines of climate change in the Pacific. This is FoE Brisbane's branch of the campaign. The Climate Frontlines Collective raises awareness and funds for people in the low-lying Pacific nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu who are being forced to leave their their communities due to climate change.

Our campaign to stop a new allocation of brown coal in Gippsland – the first step of a major new brown coal export industry for Victoria – continued to put pressure on the state government, and in December 2012 they decided to delay allocations for a second time.