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New eco burial options are emerging across Australia
A new not-for-profit company, Earthly Legacy, and a Sydney lawmaker are seeking to make human composting a legal alternative to burial and cremation in New South Wales, arguing it would offer families a less expensive and more environmentally sustainable option. Alex Greenwich, the independent member for Sydney, introduced legislation on June 26 that, if passed,…
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This month’s good news: Important melanoma breakthrough
For decades, melanoma has been among the most feared forms of skin cancer, particularly in Australia, where rates are among the highest in the world. Now, new breakthrough melanoma treatment tailored to individual patients has delivered a global dose of optimism, with researchers reporting that an experimental vaccine can significantly reduce the risk of the…
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Ethinvest’s Community Impact Foundation hits $35 million in ethically invested funds
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New report exposes how fossil fuel companies target our kids
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How trade moves deforestation around the world
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Pledge to reduce plastics this July – sign up
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Ban gambling advertising – email your MP
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Woodside Browse gas project – have your say
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First Wilya Janta Aboriginal-designed home arrives in the NT
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Leaked documents show how BHP shelved “urgent” climate plans, raising governance concerns
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Teenage pregnancy rates and child mortality are falling around the world
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Protesters challenge plans to destroy park and sacred Aboriginal site for Brisbane Olympics
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Ethinvest’s Community Impact Foundation hits $35 million in ethically invested funds
Ethinvest’s Community Impact Foundation (CIF) has just reached a major milestone! Through the generosity of our 77 giving clients, the CIF now has $35 million ethically invested funds in its corpus, and growing. This has allowed our CIF clients to donate an impressive $3.8 million last financial year to more than 250 Australian charities doing…
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New report exposes how fossil fuel companies target our kids
A new Comms Declare report has identified more than 260 coal, oil and gas-backed programs targeting Australian children through schools, museums and junior sporting organisations, prompting calls for tighter regulation of the fossil fuel industry. Coal, oil and gas companies have built a broad network of partnerships across Australian schools, museums and children’s sporting organisations,…
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How trade moves deforestation around the world
Hannah Ritchie at Our World in Data has broken down where deforestation is embedded in internationally traded crops and where it is exported and imported to and from, including Australia. An unbelievable 995,000 hectares of deforestation was embedded in internationally traded commodities in 2023 in everything from beef and oil seeds to stimulants (yes, that’s…
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Pledge to reduce plastics this July – sign up
This July, choose one plastic item to refuse, from single-use cups to plastic bottles or packaged produce to single use coffee cups with plastic lids to plastic milk containers, and make a pledge as an individual or with friends, family, colleagues or your community. Our small actions make a big difference toward a plastic free…
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Ban gambling advertising – email your MP
Join the Alliance for Gambling Reform to tell your MP to support and commit to all of the recommendations made by the Murphy Report, the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into online gambling including a ban on online gambling ads. Input your post code to send an email directly to your…
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Woodside Browse gas project – have your say
For the first time in eight years, and thanks to the efforts of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Australians can have their say on Woodside’s controversial Browse gas project. The proposal involves drilling for fossil gas just 3km from Scott Reef, posing serious risks to this extraordinary marine ecosystem and the species that depend on…
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First Wilya Janta Aboriginal-designed home arrives in the NT
In Tennant Creek, a town shaped by housing shortages and extreme heat, a new kind of home has arrived — one designed by Aboriginal innovators not just for shelter, but for culture, climate and community. Delivered in late 2025, the first of a series of modular, “culture-led” houses designed by members of the First Nations…
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Leaked documents show how BHP shelved “urgent” climate plans, raising governance concerns
Mining giant BHP shelved billions of dollars of green projects despite promising shareholders it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and telling its board climate action was “urgent,” raising serious governance questions for the company. In the summer of 2019, as heat records were broken across Europe and climate risks grew, BHP’s CEO stood…
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Teenage pregnancy rates and child mortality are falling around the world
Teenage pregnancy rates and child mortality have fallen around the world in the last few decades, which experts believe is likely due to greater access to education, contraceptives and health care. Birth rates have also fallen among adolescents aged 10 to 14 years old, where serious health concerns for pregnancy in such young girls are…
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Protesters challenge plans to destroy park and sacred Aboriginal site for Brisbane Olympics
Protesters have been arrested at Brisbane’s Victoria Park after police and Brisbane City Council officers entered a camp standing in opposition to a planned $3.6 billion Olympic stadium development on Aboriginal sacred land. The long-running confrontation over the city’s plans for a $3.6 billion stadium for the 2032 Games centres on one of the city’s…