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Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on

  • Unusual bedfellows THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE

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    Ben Oquist | The Australia Institute <mail@tai.org.au>
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    Dear Neville —

    Today The Australia Institute and the CPSU have taken the unusual step of placing a full page ad in The Saturday Paper, featuring an editorial from… The Australian newspaper.

    Why?

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    55 people earned more than a million dollars but paid no income tax in 2012-13. It’s been a problem for a long time. A Buffett Rule is a simple fair way to stop this from happening. It’s a way to make the tax system work like it’s supposed to.

    Back the Buffett Rule for Australia

    The Australia Institute produced a report earlier this year, commissioned by GetUp!, with modelling on implementing a Buffett Rule. It was part of a series of reports the Institute published looking at ways to solve Australia’s revenue problem. The revenue hole is a legacy of Peter Costello’s profligate spending and the permanent tax cuts he implemented for the very wealthiest Australians at the height of a temporary mining boom.

    The Australian’s editorial backed the rule, and the unusual bedfellows don’t end there either – with the CPSU, Labor Party and GetUp! advocating for the rule. And now Joe Hockey has indicated that he’s looking at it too.

    Add your support for a Buffett Rule for Australia
    Our research shows that implementing a Buffett Rule for the top 1% of income earners in Australia would raise $2.5 billion in revenue each year. It would ensure the wealthiest Australians pay their fair share of tax (a minimum 35%) by reducing the value of tax loopholes that no one else can afford to exploit.

    A change in this debate has the potential to shift billions from the wealthiest tax avoiders directly into the budget – and then the community.

    Tell the Treasurer that Australians back tax reform, as long as it’s fair.

    How Australia is going to raise revenue is one of the big economic debates of our time. Do we raise the taxes in ways that hurt pensioners, single parents, students and those who work in minimum wage jobs – like a higher GST, including on fresh food? Or through reforming the tax breaks and concessions, which overwhelmingly go to the wealthiest 10 percent?

    Australians will back tax reform, but only if it’s fair.

    Thanks for getting behind this idea. Together, we can change minds.

    Ben

  • The John James Newsletter 73

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    The John James Newsletter 738 August 2015 – back in Australia

    We will build them cities and they will have the freedom to leave work and go home but return to work for us every morning for the rest of their lives, as they will own nothing. John Rockefeller, 1906

    The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years, and have progressed like this:From bondage to spiritual faith;from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty;from liberty to abundance;from abundance to selfishness;from selfishness to complacency;from complaceny to apathy;from apathy to dependence;from dependency back again into bondage.Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian.Where are we in this sequence??

    Limits to Growth and the Club of RomeThis was my introduction to understanding the inexorable of our times, after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.The chart may be difficult to follow, but I recommend a careful study. It is central to the migration crisis. The graph shows the 1972 estimates of our future, and in solid lines the only marginal corrections in these figures since then. The study hinged on reducing resources creating economic collapse triggering population decline. So far, 2030 is on track.The model  analysed five variables: world population, industrialisation  pollution, food production and resource consumption. After thirty years of debate, the trends are largely confirmed.http://socialmakingeconomies.studiosuperfluo.com/en/the-project/2014/the-designers-role-3-the-limits-to-growth/ andhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/looking-back-on-the-limits-of-growth-125269840/?no-ist for a larger copyhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Looking-Back-on-the-Limits-of-Growth.html#ixzz1riJDM6WT
    Networks take revenge on solar householdsIt seems that the less people consume, the more they are charged. The more they consume, the less they are charged. Welcome to the new reality of network charges.http://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/networks-take-revenge-on-solar-households-and-low-energy-users/
    Europe’s offshore wind generation hits record yearly high with six months still to goGermany drives bumper year for European offshore wind, installing three times more capacity than current leader, the UKhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/30/europes-offshore-wind-hits-record-yearly-high-with-six-months-still-to-go?CMP=EMCENVEML1631
    Sex trafficking: Lifelong struggle of exploited childrenPoverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of children into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33710224
    Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degreesBandar Mahshahr sits adjacent to the Persian Gulf in southwest Iran where water temperatures are in the 90s. Such high temperatures lead to some of the most oppressive humidity levels in the world when winds blow off the sweltry water.http://robertscribbler.com/2015/07/31/killing-heat-it-felt-like-165-degrees-in-iran-today/Ocean Heat Dome Steams Coastal China to Dangerous 35C Wet Bulb Temperatures http://robertscribbler.com/2013/08/06/ocean-heat-dome-steams-coastal-china-shanghai-to-near-very-dangerous-35-degree-celsius-wet-bulb-temperatures-this-week/
    Unprecedented political buying power of wealthy donorsThe 67 biggest US donors, each of whom gave $1 million or more, donated more than three times as much as the 508,000 smaller donors combined,http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/wealthy-donors-and-gusher-of-cash-change-2016-race-120894.html#ixzz3hjkEndyf Jimmy CarterThe US is now an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery getting anyone elected. This is  a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/

    The Migration Crisis – WAR  AND  SECTARIAN  INTOLERANCE and too many people. A typical selection of reactions around the world to the crisis of our times. With diminishing food and water, over-clogged cities and ever-rising sea levels and 60 million is only the beginning. We need a national discussion of policy over the coming decades.The making of the migration crisishttp://newsjamaica.net/component/k2/item/1966-the-making-of-the-migration-crisis UN reveals that 60 million people are displaced around the world. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51185#.VcEmJHumTjA Here is the UN report itselfhttp://www.unhcr.org/556725e69.htmlHow the Nordic far-right has stolen the left’s groundThese parties are making huge gains as champions of those alienated by the cosmopolitan lefthttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/scandinavia-far-right-stolen-left-ground-welfare Migrants arriving outside Rome needed riot police to protect them from furious residents. http://news.yahoo.com/protests-show-migrant-crisis-reached-italian-doorsteps-143432379.html Finnish MP calls for fight against “nightmare of multiculturalism”http://yle.fi/uutiset/finnish_mp_calls_for_fight_against_nightmare_of_multiculturalism_no_comment_from_party_leadership/8182155 Refugees trying to cross from France to England are being aggressively stopped. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Calais-Migrants-Pepper-sprayed-as-Church-Urges-Humanity-20150802-0001.html Arrivals in Greece have surpassed 107,000 through July.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/europe/lesbos-greece-migrant-refugee-crisis.html  US Vows More Mass Detention http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Immigration-Vows-More-Mass-Detention-Despite-Criticism-20150804-0016.html https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=map+dsplaced+people&ei=UTF-8
    Saudi Arabia may go broke before the US oil industry bucklesSaudi Arabia will start running into trouble within two years or face draconian austerity. Social spending is the glue that binds a medieval Wahhabi regime midst unrest among the Shia minority, attacks from ISIS, and the invasion of Yemen. Diplomatic spending is what underpins the Saudi sphere of influence in a Middle East version of Europe’s Thirty Year War. http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/saudi-arabia-may-go-broke-before-the-us-oil-industry-buckles-20150805-gism05.html#ixzz3hzphXKbv
    Che Guevara Portrait to Appear Next to Pope Francis during Masshttp://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Che-Guevara-Portrait-to-Appear-Next-to-Pope-Francis-Mass–20150804-0008.html
    How Germany Prevailed in the Greek BailoutGermany persuaded European leaders to rally more firmly around what might be called the Berlin consensus by a combination of patient diplomacy and clever brinkmanship and by exploiting alarm over the antics of Greece’s leadershttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/world/europe/how-germany-prevailed-in-the-greek-bailout.html
    Israeli leaders lit the match that burned baby Ali DawabshaIt is difficult to find an Israeli cabinet minister who has not encouraged or perpetrated racist violence against Palestinians,https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israeli-leaders-lit-match-burned-baby-ali-dawabsha
    Cellphone radiation can cause cancerTo minimize your risk, use your phone less and go hands-free to keep the frequency away from your head,http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/cellphone-radiation-cancer-study-article-1.2308509
    Stormchaser’s eye-popping images of tornadoes taken as he pursued them for thousands of mileshttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3136363/
    Palm Oil Company Is Accused of Exploiting Liberia’s Ebola CrisisVillagers, faced with poor infrastructure and limited access to even domestic markets, said that growing food and vegetables had reaped few benefits for the community aside from feeding it.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/world/africa/palm-oil-company-is-accused-of-exploiting-liberias-ebola-crisis.html
    “Safe Zone” in Syria will Inflame the War Zonemarks a breakthrough for Turkey in its confrontation with the Bashar al-Assad government in Syria. If the no-fly zone does come into being it will be a body blow for Assad and his supportershttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42531.htm IS is no weaker than a year agoAfter billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 fighters killed,The IS remains a well-funded extremist army able to replenish its ranks with foreign jihadis as quickly as the US can eliminate them. Meanwhile, the group has expanded to other countries, including Libya, the Sinai Peninsula and Afghanistan.http://uk.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-isis-is-no-weaker-than-a-year-ago-2015-7?r=US&IR=T
    Companies would be given new authority to monitor their users http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-greer/cisa-the-dirty-deal-betwe_1_b_7883722.html Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt outhttp://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/
    Weapons that can kill without human operators are ‘the third revolution in warfare,’ More than 1,000 science and technology experts published an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons—machines capable of killing without human operators.http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/27/hawking-musk-woz-we-must-ban-kalashnikovs-tomorrow

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    Ricken Patel – Avaaz Unsubscribe
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    Dear lovely and 41-million-strong Avaaz community,

    I’m sorry to use crude language, but we Canadians sometimes do that in the best spirit when we get excited 🙂 Also, yes, I know a community like ours should use love and not violence analogies, but damn, Avaaz is kicking ass right now!!

    Evidence you say?

    We helped win the first ever European Migration Agenda

    EU migrants

    After thousands of asylum seekers drowned in the Mediterranean earlier this year, the European Commission finally proposed a Migration Agenda to get shared responsibility across the continent for rescue, resettlement and relocation of refugees, and we sprung into action to support the initiative:

    • First, we raised and granted $500,000 to the most effective private rescue mission in the Mediterranean, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), which has saved 7,000 lives this year. We also supported a local organization that assists unaccompanied refugee children at risk of trafficking, and Greek Avaaz members even volunteered to help them on the ground.
    • Then we used funds to run an Avaaz aid mission to the Greek islands where Syrian families arrive every day on rickety boats, delivering bedding and health kits for thousands. Check out Avaazer Mike Baillie’s inspiring blog.
    • At the same time, we launched a European volunteer network for refugees. Over 1,600 Avaazers have volunteered to assist in programmes across the continent. In Greece, Malta, and Italy, they are helping families coming off the boats with integration. In Germany and France, Avaaz members are opening their homes to refugees, and in the UK they are supporting Syrians to resettle.
    • We also did the lobbying — 450,000 EU Avaaz members called for urgent action, and the petition was delivered to all EU Heads of State and the EU Commissioner on migration. Then 65,000 of us sent personal messages to Ministers, and our campaign got attention at the highest level of government. A senior adviser to President Juncker wrote thanking us for our ‘beautiful initiative’.
    • When after weeks of stalling, we found out Poland, Austria and Spain were blocking a deal, we flooded their Ministries with phone calls, and Avaaz volunteers made a video of Syrians appealing directly to the Spanish Minister for refuge, which exploded all over the media.

    Together we showed leaders that the European public wants to help vulnerable people fleeing war, and we countered the pervading xenophobic narrative with acts of compassion. Now a deal has been done — the EU has tripled the search and rescue budget for the Mediterranean, and will offer sanctuary to more than 50,000 people escaping war. This is a first step, but the magnitude of this humanitarian crisis requires us to keep pushing leaders to increase safe routes into Europe as the best way to help these desperate families and stop illegal trafficking.
    We organised a letter from leading Economists to warn Chancellor Merkel against Greek Austerity

    Greek austerity

    When the Greek people said no to more austerity measures in a referendum and EU leaders threatened to kick Greece out of the Euro, Avaaz coordinated an open letter to Merkel from 5 leading economists including Thomas Piketty and Jeffrey Sachs on the back of a 530,000-strong Avaaz Europe petition. The letter was all over the German media and published across the world. It had such a strong impact that the German Finance Minister got his chief economist to write a response in a major newspaper, and the debate is now heating up. We’ll keep ramping up actions to shift the prevailing economic view in Germany as this has the most promise to liberate Greece from more failed and crushing austerity.

    We got Benetton to pay victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh

    Benetton Victory
    Benetton Delivery

    After two years of flat-out refusal, we got Benetton to reverse their position. Here’s how we did it:

    • We built and delivered a one-million-strong petition to Benetton.
    • We launched a huge social media storm, and when they hid our posts, we ramped them up.
    • We mobilised billboards outside Benetton’s Headquarters for days until the police came to stop us. Then our Italian Counsel got on the phone with the police, and they left us alone.
    • We got influential thought leaders to engage directly with the CEO of Benetton.
    • We issued a heartfelt appeal to Benetton staff through targeted ads on Facebook.
    • And finally, we engaged in personal and constructive negotiations with company executives.

    Benetton responded by supporting the scheme, and even thanked Avaaz for our ‘important and positive role in the process’! Now, the scheme is fully funded and workers and their families will receive full payment. This success story could change the game for workers’ rights everywhere.
    We raised a whopping $2.6 million for the victims of the Nepal earthquake

    Nepal earthquake

    When we heard of the devastation from this mega earthquake, we immediately jumped in and cut through bureaucratic hurdles to get aid to those most in need. By partnering with over a dozen of the best local relief efforts, the shelter, food, and medical supplies that our community funded were often the first to reach devastated villages. Funds raised by us are now rebuilding schools and crucial health facilities in the hardest hit regions, and are bringing hope to countless lives. Abari, one of the amazing organisations building schools and houses, sent their gratitude: “While the buildings were still crumbling from the aftershocks in Nepal, Avaaz spoke to us, understood the magnitude of the problem, and arranged the funds – all in less than 24 hours. The way they make decisions and take action is mind-blowing.”

    We helped push the G7 of world polluters to commit to get off fossil fuels forever

    G7 climate heroes

    After decades of polluting and feet-dragging to move to the only viable solution — a total shift to clean energy — the G7 amazingly set a long-term goal to get completely off fossil fuels. Our community has been pushing for this for 2 years by:

    • spearheading the gigantic, momentum-changing, 700,000-strong climate march last year;
    • building a 2.7 million person petition for 100% clean energy delivered to dozens of key leaders;
    • coordinating scores of rallies, high-level lobbying meetings, opinion polls, and ad campaigns across the world, all funded by our community;
    • and leading a 3-month all-out push for the G7 summit leadership, especially directed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to put this on the agenda and agree to this goal.

    Click here to see in detail how we helped get this incredible victory.

    We gave over $2.5 million to stop Ebola, and it is almost defeated!

    Ebola news

    This is a big deal. This monster could have killed millions — it threatened the whole world. But the world came together to stop it, and Liberia was recently declared Ebola-free! What did we do?

    • Our community donated $2.5 million to the best aid operations working on the front line. It was the speed and nimbleness of our funds that made them life-saving. Partners in Health says: “We are so grateful for your support, and for the flexibility you provided us in terms of use of the funds. This flexibility was critical.”
    • Over 4,000 of us offered to go to West Africa to use our skills to assist in the fight. Avaaz volunteers played critical roles on the ground — from combating patient-doctor transmission in Ebola Treatment Centers, to building the facilities themselves.

    The fact that Ebola is defeated in Liberia and has significantly declined in neighbouring countries is a huge victory for humanity, and I’m so proud of our community for showing that people everywhere are willing to risk everything to help others on the other side of the planet in times of crisis. What’s now clearer than ever is that investment in public health in this region is crucial.

    We pushed Barclays to divest from an Israeli Defense Company

    Israel-Palestine

    After the horrific Gaza attacks last summer, Avaaz launched the biggest global divestment campaign ever, calling on major companies to cut ties with operations and companies engaged in the illegal occupation and repression of Palestinians. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Russell Brand joined our call, and other groups called for the bank to act. Avaaz staff then met with Barclays to drive home the importance of divesting from Elbit Systems weapons company. We have now been informed that Barclays has no beneficial ownership of any shares in Elbit Systems in any capacity, nor does it hold any shares in nominee for clients. Barclays has also confirmed that it is not recommending Elbit Systems shares to clients via any trading platforms. Victory!
    We are still pushing to get other companies financing the occupation of Palestine to withdraw and respect international law.

    We helped finally get justice for Kenyan rape survivor, Liz

    Justice for Liz

    After a 16-year-old Kenyan girl told the police she was raped by six men who then threw her unconscious body down a 6-meter toilet pit, they just had the criminals mow their station lawn, and then let them free! When our community found out, we responded with a mega global outcry, and we have continued to ramp up the pressure:

    • We delivered the petition to top political and justice officials.
    • We bombarded Kenyan police and politicians on social media.
    • We sent an investigator to the scene to help uncover the crime.
    • And we teamed up with amazing Kenyan organisations to hold a massive march to get a Special Prosecutor involved to take the case to court.

    Finally, nearly two years later, a judge sentenced three of the rapists to 15 years in jail. Terry Kunina, one of the women leaders in Kenya, said: “The Avaaz campaign put this case on the map and were it not for the worldwide recognition of the situation that Liz was facing, I am convinced that the case would not be where it is today. Liz now stands a chance at a better life.”

    Now Kenyan officials know the world is watching and will hold them responsible for abuse and impunity.

    On top of all these incredible wins, Avaaz has grown large enough to set up 18 national teams, so the number and impact of our national campaigning is skyrocketing from Germany to Brazil, from South Africa to Russia. All of this is made possible by the growing engagement of all of us in this incredible community — from continuing to take action, to bringing our friends in, to donating small amounts of money and time — we are creating a magical and powerful collective force.

    There’s a lot of scary stuff going on in the world, but let’s take a moment to give ourselves some love. We’re coming together in our millions, week after week, and it is having impact on some of the most complex issues of our time.

    Let’s keep showing up together!

    With lots of love, respect, and most of all gratitude,

    Ricken, Alice, Emma, Danny, Nataliya, Marigona, and the whole Avaaz team

    PS — If you like what we are doing together please chip in to help keep it all going: YES I’LL CHIP IN You might not know that Avaaz is different from just about every other global organisation in that we are 100% funded and guided by our community. We strictly refuse any donations from corporations, governments, foundations, and even individual donations over 5000 Euros. We rely on small online contributions to run this whole magical operation.


    Avaaz.org is a 41-million-person global campaign network     that works to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decision-making. (“Avaaz” means “voice” or “song” in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz’s biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter

  • One week to go… Lock the Gate Alliance

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    Dear Neville,

    In just seven days, the Upper House of NSW Parliament will debate a Bill that could create an immediate moratorium on unconventional gas, and permanently protect the Northern Rivers, the Pilliga forest and the drinking water catchments of Sydney and the Central Coast from CSG drilling.

    Sound too good to be true?

    The Bill was introduced by the Greens and amendments moved by the ALP could secure broad political support and see it passed in the Upper House. What other issue could attract the support of parties as different as the Shooters and Fishers and Animal Justice Parties, the Christian Democrats and the Greens?

    We want these parliamentarians to hear from thousands of us that support their cooperation for an immediate moratorium on unconventional gas in New South Wales.

    Will you email them and ask them to #VoteYes on this Bill? 

    In just a week, the Bill is due to be debated. We’ll be watching in the gallery of the NSW Legislative Council and watching online via live stream to see who supports action to protect New South Wales from unconventional gas and who doesn’t. If the Bill passes the Upper House, it will then go back to the Lower House in a month or two and force the NSW Government, and the Premier himself, to a vote.

    Make sure they’ve heard from you first, and know that you back this important Bill.

    Thanks for all your work to bring us to this point.

    Georgina Woods
    NSW Coordinator

    Lock the Gate Alliance
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  • HUGE WIN — CommBank just ruled out Galilee Coal

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    HUGE WIN — CommBank just ruled out Galilee Coal

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    Dear Neville,

    This. Is. Huge.

    Thanks to your hard work, the Commonwealth Bank has just ruled out involvement in the Galilee Basin mega coal mines and Abbot Point port expansion on the Great Barrier Reef!

    Last night, CommBank publicly confirmed that they have ended their involvement with Indian mining giant Adani and are no longer advising the Galilee Basin coal proposals. [1]

    This huge victory is thanks to dozens of community groups and individuals who have run bold and creative actions at CommBank branches across the country and the thousands of people that have put the bank on notice, closed their accounts and taken action online.

    To everyone that has had a hand in this success – a massive THANK YOU.

    We’ve known for some time that Galilee coal is ‘unbankable’ and now Adani and its ill-fated project is ‘bankless’, with CommBank being the 12th major financer to rule out the project.

    But of course the fight is not over yet. This victory gives us a unique opportunity to call on CommBank to get out of all fossil fuels, but also to call on all of the major Australian banks to rule out support for this destructive coal proposal.

    Next week, we’ll pay a visit to CommBank branches to deliver messages of congratulations and call on them to take the next big step in giving all fossil fuels the flick. Signup to join a fun and family friendly action near you.

    These actions will be a celebration of what we have just achieved and an opportunity for us to launch a new fossil free vision for CommBank. Signup today to join your community at a CommBank action next week.

    CommBank’s announcement confirms that when we stand together and challenge powerful corporations with smart, bold and creative actions, we can achieve great things.

    That’s why next week, we will continue to show CommBank that the community expects Australia’s largest bank to be a leader on climate action and develop a plan to get out of all fossil fuels.

    For now though, we hope you will all join us in celebrating this fantastic community achievement.

    Yours with a smile,

    Josh on behalf of the 350.org Australia team.

    P.s Can’t make it to an action next week? Click here to send a message to Australia’s other big 3 banks – Westpac, ANZ and NAB telling them it’s time to publicly rule out Galilee Coal as well.

    [1] Adani and Commonwealth Bank part ways, casting further doubt on Carmichael coal project, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 August

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    Federal Court says Hunt was wrong!

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    Neville,

    The Federal court has just overturned Greg Hunt’s approval of Adani’s Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin, because of its damaging environmental impacts! [1]

    Email Hunt to tell him to reject this disastrous coal proposal once and for all.

    Earlier this year, the courageous Mackay Conservation Group, supported by thousands of donations from the community, took Environment Minister Greg Hunt to court over his approval of Adani’s disastrous mine.* Their argument: Hunt failed to consider Adani’s terrible environmental record and the mine’s impact on the climate and local environment.

    Thousands of hours of hard work later, the case has been won — the Court has agreed that Hunt dropped the ball and has ordered him back to the drawing board to reconsider his decision to approve this ridiculous project.

    But there’s only one decision Greg Hunt can justifiably make and that’s to reject the mine outright – join us in telling him to do exactly that.

    There’s simply no way that Adani’s plans can proceed. They’re unbankable, unburnable and unbelievably reckless. That Hunt ever gave Adani the green-light shows yet again how negligent and coal-obsessed our Government is.

    Now forced to reconsider his decision, it’s vital that Hunt hears us loud and clear when we tell him – reject the mine or face growing and deepening public opposition.

    Today’s announcement is a major victory for our climate and Reef. It adds yet another delay to Adani’s dangerous plans – a delay that could spell the end of those plans.

    But most of all, this victory is testament to the power of community. That a tiny conservation group, supported by the donations of thousands of concerned citizens, can take on the Federal government, a multi-billion dollar mining company and one of the largest coal projects in the world and WIN should give us all hope that justice does eventually prevail.

    Now join us in telling Hunt to scrap this monster coal project for good!

    In solidarity,

    Charlie for the 350.org Australia team

    *We also want to acknowledge the tireless work of EDO NSW who represented the Mackay Conservation Group and GetUp who helped to crowdfund for the legal costs.

    [1] Approval for Adani’s Carmichael Coal Mine Overturned by Federal Court, The Guardian, 5th August

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