Wendy Williams, Thursday, 9th November 2017 - Environmental groups have welcomed an announcement by the world’s biggest mining company that it will not support a push to strip environmental groups of their right to advocate.…
Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 31st October 2017 - Daniel Smith is the founder of Clean Coast Collective, a not-for-profit lifestyle brand committed to cleaning up the ocean. He is one to watch.A total of 60 of Australia’s brightest…
Luke Michael, Monday, 23rd October 2017 - Anna Jane Linke is the founder and CEO of Seaside Scavenge, a charity which organises waterway cleanups and clothes swap events. She is this week’s Changemaker.Linke founded Seaside…
Luke Michael, Monday, 4th September 2017 - Environmental charities and the mining lobby are engaged in a bitter stand-off over political advocacy, with the mining sector’s attempt to curtail environmental advocacy undermined…
Wayne Wescott, Tuesday, 1st August 2017 - Growing forests isn’t only about the environment; it’s about growing communities and economies as well, argues Wayne Wescott, CEO of environment not-for-profit Greenfleet.
While…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 24th November 2016 -
The UK-based Body Shop Foundation, established by entrepreneur Dame Anita Roddick, will close its doors in 2017 after the charitable organisation failed to reach a funding agreement…
Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 - Climate change has been described as the most difficult problem human society has ever faced. But in the face of influential vested interests and governments that seem slow to respond,…
Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 30th August 2016 - Victoria is the first state in Australia to introduce legislation to permanently ban the exploration and development of all onshore unconventional gas, including fracking and …
Ellie Cooper, Wednesday, 24th August 2016 - A new campaign has people taking on challenges outside their comfort zone to raise money for wildlife on the brink of extinction, writes Ellie Cooper in this week’s Spotlight on Social…
Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 31st May 2016 - The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has delivered an election scorecard rating the major political parties’ environmental policies out of 100 points and has given…
Ellie Cooper, Monday, 9th May 2016 - Jane Hutchinson was one of the volunteers who set up the Tasmanian Land Conservancy in 2001. Fifteen years on she heads the organisation, which now protects over 60,000 hectares…
Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 4th May 2016 - The federal government’s controversial inquiry into the tax status of environmental organisations has recommended limiting the amount of advocacy work organisations can do, …