Australia community activism news
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Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Australia.
2025
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025) - Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels, theguardian.com (Nov 03, 2025) — Labor announces ‘solar sharer’ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia
- For Australia to get moving on electric vehicles, we must ban petrol and diesel cars by 2035, Hussein Dia for the Conversation, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2025)
- Taking the fight to court: challenging Minister Murray Watt’s approval of the North West Shelf extension, acf.org.au (Oct 13, 2025)
- Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2025)
- Australia’s new goal for 2035 is for emissions to be 62% to 70% lower than in 2005. It’s less ambitious than the UK’s target but higher than in Japan, Canada and NZ, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2025)
- What is happening with Australia’s emissions? Electricity is improving. Transport is not, theguardian.com (Aug 25, 2025)
- Risks of climate crisis to Australia’s economy and environment are ‘intense and scary’, unreleased government report says, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2025)
- These students cut air pollution near their schools – by taking aim at their parents’ idling cars, theconversation.com (Aug 05, 2025)
- Australia’s native bees struggled after the Black Summer fires – but a world-first solution brought them buzzing back, theconversation.com (Jun 25, 2025)
- It’s up to each of us to help save life on Earth – I love this challenge, Bob Brown, theguardian.com (Apr 08, 2025)
- Labor’s home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here’s how, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2025)
- Want a side of CO₂ with that? Better food labels help us choose more climate-friendly foods, theconversation.com (Feb 25, 2025)
2024
- After 65,000 years caring for this land, First Nations peoples are now key to Australia’s clean energy revolution, theconversation.com (Dec 06, 2024)
- If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor, Tim Winton, theguardian.com (Oct 26, 2024)
- We compared land transport options for getting to net zero. Hands down, electric rail is the best, theconversation.com (Jul 29, 2024)
- Climate in the courtroom: all sides are using ‘green lawfare’, and it’s good for democracy, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
- First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism, theguardian.com (Apr 29, 2024)
- As the First Nations know, forests are ‘music to the soul’, positive.news (Apr 03, 2024)
- Teen activist Anjali Sharma wages war on government climate inaction from dorm room, abc.net.au (Mar 11, 2024)
2023
- ‘Betrayed’: NT communities angered after learning only industry was consulted on scrapped net zero policy, theguardian.com (Dec 04, 2023)
- Never fly again? Go vegan? It was too hard. But I still cut my emissions by 61% and it made life simpler and better, Jo Clay, theguardian.com (Nov 03, 2023)
- The ‘climate safe rooms’ keeping low-income Australians cool during heatwaves, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2023)
- Australian households on track to add near-record rooftop solar capacity to electricity grid, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2023)
- Net zero by 2050? Too late. Australia must aim for 2035, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2023)
- Our environmental laws are failing us in the face of the climate crisis, Tim Flannery, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2023)
- Slow train coming: only a genuine shift to rail will put NZ on track to reduce emissions, theconversation.com (Aug 22, 2023)
- Kerbside ferns and vertical gardens: transforming Melbourne’s ‘grotty’ laneways into urban oases, theguardian.com (Aug 04, 2023)
- Landmark court win upholds protection for Gliders and Victoria’s forests, eastgippsland.net.au (Jun 27, 2023)
- Australia needs to reduce emissions to net zero by 2038 to do ‘fair share’ to contain global heating, analysis shows, The Guardian (Jun 18, 2023)
2022
- ‘This case has made legal history’: young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine, The Conversation (Nov 25, 2022)
- Australia violated the rights of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to act on climate change, the UN says. Here’s what that means, The Conversation (Sep 26, 2022)
- Australia sets new climate target in landmark bill, BBC News (Sep 09, 2022)
- ‘One of the most progressive and environmentally conscious legal texts on the planet’: Chile’s proposed constitution and its lessons for Australia, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
- Mangrove forests: How 40 million Australian trees died of thirst, BBC News (Aug 14, 2022)
- Albanese releases draft wording for Indigenous ‘Voice to parliament’ referendum, The Conversation (Jul 29, 2022)
- Australia climate crisis: Women call for action with photo petition, BBC News (Jun 06, 2022)
- New Australian PM signals climate policy change, BBC News (May 22, 2022)
- The floods have killed at least 21 Australians. Adapting to a harsher climate is now a life-or-death matter, The Conversation (Mar 08, 2022)
- Koalas labeled as 'endangered' in eastern states of Australia, Wikinews (Feb 14, 2022) — On Friday, Australia’s federal environment minister Sussan Ley declared the koala an endangered species in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
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| Authors | Phil Green |
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| Cite as | Phil Green (2019–2025). "Australia community activism news". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |