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It's time for NAB to price the risk of climate chaos
Jul 17, 2021
NAB has lent over $7 billion to fossil fuels in the last 5 years. Will it continue to invest in industries driving the climate crisis? With a critical policy announcement due in September it's time they reconsidered.
No More Gas-led Insanity
Jul 15, 2021
XR Red Rebels sound the alarm to protect sacred icons on the Victorian coast from gas exploration
We are in the midst of the worlds sixth mass global extinction! Here’s what we know.
Jun 29, 2021
When we think of wildlife and nature, our thoughts leap to images of tigers, monkeys, koalas and the like, thriving in the wilderness, content and safe. The glum reality is that these animals and millions more are on the brink of extinction.
Charges dropped against XR, magistrates uphold the role of civil disobedience for social change
Jun 23, 2021
Extinction Rebellion celebrated as charges were dropped against protestors in Sydney, Canberra and Hobart court appearances.
XR activists block entrance to Perth oil and gas conference in spectacular protest action
Jun 18, 2021
XR rebels blocked traffic and staged a dramatic demonstration at the Australian Petroleum Production and Extraction Association's annual meeting in Perth this week.
Bega Valley rebels highlight forest destruction for wood-chipping and the climate emergency
Jun 17, 2021
Rebels in a regional Australian town locked down on top of the Federal MP’s office roof, a pile of wood chips was dumped on the office doorstep and another rebel glued themselves to the office door.
National Fuel Blockade
Jun 11, 2021
XR Rebels block fuel supply terminals around the country to demand urgent action on the transition to net zero transport systems
XR Rebels stage the Seige of Santos
Jun 04, 2021
XR Rebels plead guilty to disturbing the peace in protest against gas giant Santos in Adelaide
A Budget Week Like No Other
May 20, 2021
The national budget should have addressed the emergency transition we so desperately need - instead it included more of the ‘business-as-usual’ measures that are taking us to the brink of collapse. XR rebels went to Canberra to demand action.
Budget As Usual = DEATH.
May 11, 2021
Regular Australians are urgently called to take part in disruptive and nonviolent civil disobedience. Our government continues to commit future generations and our beautiful country to death by failing to act on the climate emergency.
Festival of Civil Disobedience
Feb 20, 2021
A program of events, The Festival of Civil Disobedience explores nonviolent civil disobedience as a strategy for system change.
THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WANT EMERGENCY CLIMATE ACTION, we are here to give it to them
Feb 08, 2021
1.2 million people answered the largest global survey on climate change ever conducted. The results are that 64 per cent of people believe that it is an “emergency” and must be addressed urgently, but just 10 per cent believe world leaders are doing enough (1).