LEAN FNQ

17/03/2025

17/03/2025

We think every day should be world wildlife day!

LEAN WA - Labor Environment Action NetworkLEAN NSW - Labor Environment Action NetworkLEAN - Sunshine Coast & Wide BayLEAN Qld - Labor Environment Action NetworkLEAN VictoriaLEAN SW TasmaniaLEAN Central CoastLEAN FNQLEAN NSW South CoastLEAN North Coast Labor Environment Action Network SA Tanya Plibersek

11/02/2025

The Smart Energy Council:
"is so proud to be celebrating a defining moment in Australia's smart energy journey – the passage of the Production Tax Credits (PTC) Bill through the Senate.

The passing of this legislation means that up to $7 billion will go towards critical mineral processing and refining. Another $6.7 billion for the production of green hydrogen. This will pull through billions of dollars in new renewable energy projects, and help secure Australia’s economic future.

This achievement didn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of years of hard work and relentless advocacy...

Today, we celebrate teamwork, perseverance, and progress. And tomorrow? We get back to work shaping the next big win, and building a Future Made in Australia."
Smart Energy Council Jim Chalmers MP

08/02/2025

Saturday Paper 8/2/25:
'Felicity Wade says Labor Party members are “deeply” disappointed about the failure on the environment protection agency.

“There is no way to hide the despondency across the membership about it,” says Wade, national co-convenor of Labor Environment Action Network, the party’s largest internal pressure group, which counts about 5000 members on its mailing lists. “The bad guys and vested interests are emboldened and all political parties are retreating away from collaboration.”

For Wade, a former director of the Wilderness Society in NSW who joined the party more than a decade ago, the only option now is to take the hit and get on with the work to deliver in the next term of parliament, starting with getting Labor elected.

“Labor is the only party that can go anywhere near delivering an approach that facilitates the economy and safeguards the environment,” says Wade. “Sometimes it stumbles, but the ethical commitment is there … We’ve seen too many reversals of progress over recent decades. We have to take the centre with us.”

14/11/2024

It's time for an National EPA and new national environment Laws. We must stop extinctions!

LEAN are calling on parliamentarians to work together on a solution to pass the stage 2 Nature Positive bills through the senate in November.

Nature can't wait.

IT'S TIME.

Anthony AlbaneseTanya Plibersek

09/04/2024

FODI returns to Sydney from 21–23 August 2026. Presented by The Ethics Centre.

09/01/2024

If you’re an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artist who identifies as a woman, we would love to work with you to design the 2024 AIATSIS International Women’s Day Poster!

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is Inspire Inclusion and we can’t wait to see your creative ideas!

In more exciting news, the selected artist will receive a one-off payment of $5,000. If this sounds like the summer project for you head to our website (link below) and submit an EOI form today!

The EOI closes on Friday 19 January 2024 at 5pm (AEDT) so don’t miss out on your chance to be this year’s AIATSIS IWD Poster designer!

For further information please visit: https://aiatsis.gov.au/whats-new/news/aiatsis-international-womens-day-poster-EOI

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10/10/2022

On the back of Anthony Albanese signing up to the Leaders' Pledge for Nature, join us to find out more about our international commitments. Then find out what action you can take.

Register for the Wed 19th Oct 7pm AEDT:

https://forms.gle/h9siVZ6DWGQqehmaA

04/09/2020

The first round of the nation-leading $500 million Land Restoration Fund announced by Palaszczuk this week is set to deliver regional jobs, skills and infrastructure, reduce carbon emissions, healthier waterways and create more habitat for threatened species. More than $55 million would go towards seven projects in the Far North creating over 400 jobs.

Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Leeanne Enoch said that these projects will provide regional and rural communities with employment opportunities while helping to protect Queensland’s unique environment. “The Land Restoration Fund supports Traditional Owners, farmers, land managers and landowners to create jobs for Queenslanders, diversify income streams and restore our rich and varied landscape,” the Premier said. The jobs will for ecologists, graziers, Indigenous Rangers, fire managers, foresters, tradies for fencing, irrigation and earthmoving as well as specialist skills like laser levelling, mapping and helicopter pilots.

Projects in Far North Queensland included the Northern Aurukun Savanna Burning Project that will protect gallery forest and support Traditional Owners connection to country and the Dry Rainforest Restoration and Terrestrial Laser Scanning project that will see revegetation occur on three Far North Queensland properties.

Learn more about the benefits of the Land Restoration Fund and carbon farming. https://qld.gov.au/LandRestorationFund

04/09/2020