Clean Up Australia Day is Sunday 2 March, 2014

by | 26 Feb 2014 | Event

Clean Up Australia Day is a simple way you can take action to clean up, fix up and conserve our prized Australian environment. In 2013 an estimated 550,300 volunteers removed 16,150 tonnes of rubbish at 7,341 sites right across the country – but we can do...

Autumn Festival: SLA Float

by | 24 Feb 2014 | Autumn Festival, Event

This year the Autumn Festival Parade is on Saturday March 15th, middle of the day. SLA has entered a float every year since we began, and we have won the Best Community Float more than once. (This pic is part of the 2009 SLA float). If you would like to be involved...

National Day of Divestment Action – 3rd May

by | 24 Feb 2014 | AACSGaM, Event | 1 comment

On the 3rd of May, 350.org and Market Forces will hold Australia’s first ever national day of bank divestment action, where you and hundreds of bank customers* can close your account and switch to a fossil free bank. Our banks are funding a big problem. Since 2008,...

Sustaining this is not Sustainable

by | 24 Feb 2014 | Starfish

The 85 richest people on Earth now own the the same amount of financial wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population ~ that is, the same as 3.5Bn people. This stunning finding comes from Oxfam‘s report, Working For the Few, which was published in the lead up...

Returning home to regional Australia

by | 24 Feb 2014 | SLAM, Starfish

More Australians aged 25-44 are moving from cities to regional areas than vice versa. According to the Regional Australia Institute, ‘returners’ make up a significant pattern in internal migration that often fails to be recognised as a positive – and popular – life...

Wake up call

by | 24 Feb 2014 | SLAM

Have you ever felt like we’re living through a nightmare of consumption? That you wish you could un-hook yourself and reconnect with a life that is somehow more real and vivid? Then perhaps you’re ready to heed Earth’s Wake Up Call. Read more at Gaia...

Hey there, from the new camp!

by | 13 Feb 2014 | AACSGaM | 1 comment

Just writing to let you know what’s been happening at the Front Line Action on Coal camp and Maules Creek blockade. In the last couple of days, the bulk of camp FLAC has moved from the edges of the Leard State Forest to Cliff’s property, just 15 minutes away. ...