Jacquelene

Fire, flood, health and housing core issues for activist movement

Jacquelene 11 April 2022

GetUp, which describes itself as a one-million member movement striving to put the people back into Australian politics, has started the election campaign by describing incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a “failed or absent” leader. According to GetUp, through three years of bushfires, drought, floods and the pandemic, everyday […]

Climate is a social justice issue – ACOSS

Jacquelene 5 April 2022

According to Australia’s peak social services body, the Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS), the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes an urgent call for faster emissions reduction and targeted polices to benefit “people with the least”. The report warns that without immediate and deep […]

Lismore local calls for community-led adaptation

Jacquelene 4 April 2022

Incoming Greens Member of the Legislative Council, Sue Higginson, met with the NSW Premier and Deputy Premier today in her hometown of Lismore and told them it was time for a state-wide assessment of climate risk and community-led solutions. She spoke with Jackie Pearson. She says her community desperately needs […]

Good Governance News

1,771,759 cubic metres of waste to be dumped in water catchment

Jacquelene 31 March 2022

The 25-year saga that saw a golf course remodelling project at Mangrove Mountain transformed into a regional waste facility within the Central Coast’s water catchment does not appear to have been fully resolved by the latest Land and Environment Court judgement. By Jackie Pearson Justice Rachel Pepper’s judgement ran to […]

Environmental Justice News

Jonah – portrait of a young climate activist

Jacquelene 29 March 2022

Daily news…Jonah is an articulate 25-year-old undergraduate with a demanding day job and parents who worry about him – he speaks with Jackie Pearson about why he believes the direct actions of groups like Blockade Australia will “take us to a safer future”. Speaking with Jonah, who explains he is […]

Environmental Justice News

Climate activists are not anarchists or criminals

Jacquelene 28 March 2022

DAILY NEWS…. For four days last week #BlockadeAustralia successfully created major traffic disruptions at Sydney’s Port Botany to draw attention to the climate crisis and the NSW Police response has been to form a Strike Force and call the protesters anarchists. By Jackie Pearson Acting Premier and Minister for Police […]

Democracy won the South Australian election – Part 1

Jacquelene 26 March 2022

YOUR WEEKLY DEEP READ…The voters of South Australia resoundingly kicked out a first-term Liberal State Government last weekend because they were not prepared to accept a sub-standard public health system. Jackie Pearson spoke with the SA Conservation Council and SACOSS about the role of environmental and social justice in the […]

Good Governance News

Social service sector welcomes election policy pledge

Jacquelene 25 March 2022

The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) has welcomed the Federal Opposition’s commitment to support a stronger and better paid community sector if it is elected to government before the end of May. Labor chose March 15, World Social Worker Day, to announce its election policy for the community sector […]

Environmental Justice News

Bushfire survivors in disbelief at NSW planning change

Jacquelene 24 March 2022

DAILY NEWS… Jo Dodds doesn’t quite remember how she managed to become President of the NGO called Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BS4C) but she does remember the day her feelings about climate change became visceral. She wants the NSW Planning Minister to make sure climate-impacted communities get to build […]

NSW health system is broken especially in poor communities

Jacquelene 23 March 2022

DAILY NEWS… One of the main reasons South Australians threw out their single-term Mitchell State Government last Saturday was ambulance ramping, which begs the question of why NSW residents are prepared to put up with ramping, slow ambulance response times, long emergency department waits and dangerous elective surgery delays. Jackie […]

COP29 climate finance goal ‘smoke and mirrors’

Activists urge world leaders to ‘End Plastic’

Future Sooner questions need for another inquiry when ‘people want action now’

Broome community unites to save local reef

Submissions close for EV inquiry

Residents sick and tired of coal coverups

$1 billion in tree canopy hangs in the balance

Nuclear not wanted here – message sent to COP29

Collaboration key to cracking net zero targets

CHOICE asks you to stand up for remote First Nations communities

Billionaires produce more carbon in 90 minutes than most in a lifetime

Species on the brink send a dire warning