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It seems our governments will sacrifice everything to meet the demands of big business. But how about urgent action to develop appropriate infrastructure and enforced standards for energy, water use, social and environmental impacts? Without that, hyperscale AI projects will see us cooked.

SOCIAL SPENDING, NOT WAR SPENDING! XR activists were prominent amongst groups outside the Australian Labor Party's 50th National Conference in Adelaide, protesting the crimes of the US Military complex

Disruptions and protests by XR SA were timed for every day of the Australian Energy Producers (AEP) 2026 Conference and Exhibition in Adelaide. Delegates from major corporations, and engineers, technologists, financiers and politicians from Australia and around the world were sent a clear message that their destructive activities are costing the Earth.

PM Albo's failure to stand up to Japanese lobbying, and the increasing war agenda of Australia and Japan's governments triggered a protest by XR ACT and other Canberra climate groups. The action was in solidarity with protests in Sydney and other countries including Japan, Columbia and the Philippines.

Woodside’s Browse Basin proposal is one of the dirtiest new fossil fuel projects currently planned in Australia. XRWA joined climate and community activists on a rainy morning at a protest coordinated by the Conservation Council of WA. Thirty protesters were later removed from Woodside's AGM.

XRSA joined Traditional Owners, First Nations community leaders and environmental campaigners in a protest outside the Santos 2026 AGM at the Adelaide Conference Centre.

XR Vic activists are sending  urgent messages to politicians on flipping pieces of corflute. Our planet is heating up! Earth is busting global warming limits. We’ve just experienced the 11 hottest years on record - that isn’t a coincidence, and it’s madness not to act!

Marches organised by the Bob Brown Foundation drew 15,000 people across 14 locations. Commonwealth powers must be used to protect native forests and wildlife - sign the declaration!

Protesters confronted Resources Minister Madeline King during her keynote speech at the Carbon Capture and Storage Conference in Melbourne this week.

XRWA are proud to be part of the new Drop Woodside campaign, sparked by an exciting action on Feb 1 at Boola Bardip by the Voices For Climate Collective and friends from the Boorloo climate action community.

“By profiteering from extracting, burning and exporting dirty oil and gas, Santos is fuelling the race to extinction – driving the fires, floods and heatwaves that threaten the safety of our communities”—Dr Suzanne, XRSA

In another epic Rising Tide protest at the Port of Newcastle, campaigners demanded federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%.

As nations gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate conference, rebels and friends from XRSA kayaked and paddle-boated on the Torrens river to send a message that we must #EndFossilFuelsNow to protect our oceans, rivers and ground water systems from the ravages of climate heating. Water is Life!

Last weekend's protest in Launceston Mall highlighted Australia’s extinction crisis. Australia has the fastest rate of mammal extinction in the world, and more than 2,000 species are listed as threatened.

A week of action in Melbourne (Naarm) to inspire resistance to the profit-driven systems of oppression driving climate chaos, genocide and colonial violence, and urge us to imagine better ways of living.

Protesters across the country came out in pyjamas outside MP offices to expose the consequences of Labor's disastrously weak emissions reduction targets and approval of new fossil fuel projects.

Brisbane City Council's six year long ban on XR's use of council's library meeting rooms has been overturned, and found to be discrimination on the basis of political belief and activity. Brisbane XR member Miree Le Roy (fourth from left) self-represented against a pool of senior counsels and lawyers from the Council. (photo by Lucy Stone)

Seven XR SA rebels have been arrested after a die-in inside the Adelaide Santos HQ lobby – the latest in a series of XR SA actions to highlight fossil fuel industry and bank complicity in the climate-induced SA algal bloom disaster.

A report released just before the July 3 National Day of Protest Rights provides evidence of how harsher protest laws impact the communities we work with. The real criminals are the states subjugating entire populations and those peddling disinformation about the climate crisis. DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST!

Protests continue around the country after Labor's approval of a 40-year extension to the Woodside North West Shelf gas project in WA.