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XR tells Government-owned VicForests: Stop destroying native forests immediately. Just STOP IT
19 Oct 2022
Climate and forest activists from around Victoria rallied at the Bourke Street office of VicForests today to demand an immediate end to logging native forests and a just transition for forest workers. Several koalas were arrested.
XR SA actions target fossil fuel partnerships with government
17 Oct 2022
Wave 1 of Extinction Rebellion South Australia's campaign to End Fossil Fuels Now began with a Blockade of the Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition
Extinction Rebellion activists glue on to Picasso painting at the NGV
10 Oct 2022
In an action that received global media coverage, two rebels glued themselves to Picasso’s ‘Massacre in Korea’ at the National Gallery of Victoria
National Threatened Species Day rally: Australia’s shameful record
9 Sept 2022
86 years after the last Tasmanian Tiger died in captivity, Australia has the highest species extinction rate in the world.
Australian jobs and much else at risk in an era of accelerating catastrophes
4 Sept 2022
ACT rebels flag the need for urgent climate action in a protest during the September Jobs and Skills Summit at Parliament House
Trolley Trouble in Melbourne
28 Aug 2022
A choreographed action with empty shopping trolleys drew attention to the impact of climate change on our food supply
XR SA rebels highlight lack of government action on the climate crisis
28 Aug 2022
Rebels glue themselves to a CBD roof and the front entrance of Labor HQ in Adelaide to send a message that empty words are not enough.
VicForests trash shared heritage to make throwaway paper items, say protesters
17 Aug 2022
Vic Parliament rally follows a peaceful protest that stopped forestry operations on Mt Disappointment
There has never been a more important time to be alive
10 Aug 2022
Speakers at rallies in SA and NSW call for climate action and solidarity. Each one of us is vitally important in a stand against governments captured by fossil fuel interests.
Red Rebels protest the Tasmanian fish farming industry
5 Aug 2022
The salmon industry is one of many contributors to the slow disaster of marine ecological collapse, unfolding across the globe.
Climate groups rally in Melbourne while governments shut down the future
31 July 2022
The new government still plans to go ahead with 'carbon bombs' like the Scarborough-Pluto gas project, which by itself will produce three times Australia's current annual emissions in its lifetime.
Blinky the giant burning koala in Canberra
27 July 2022
The new government must declare a climate and ecological emergency and take urgent action to avert climate collapse.
Release of State of the Environment Report triggers actions across Australia
19 July 2022
"Environmental degradation is now considered a threat to humanity, which could bring about societal collapses with long-lasting and severe consequences" the report said.
Snap action at Santos South Australia HQ in solidarity with the Gomeroi people
15 July 2022
The Gomeroi people say GAMIL (no) to Santos' continued attempts at gas-fired dispossession.
“The police state that we have seen elsewhere in the world is right here now”
1 July 2022
David Hood and Kate Patterson observed the Blockade Australia actions in Sydney, and say everyone needs to take action.
Unprecedented and brutal raid on Blockade Australia in NSW
22 June 2022
A statement from XR NSW expresses Extinction Rebellion Australia’s solidarity with Blockade Australia
We have the right to protect our forests
21 June 2022
Snap Rally in Melbourne against draconian anti-protest laws
While the profits roll in, the fossil fuel party goes on
10 June 2022
Fossil Fools party on in Meanjiin, while XR Gold Coast join other activists in calling out bank funding for new fossil fuel projects.
‘Just Stop It’ new blockade at Exxon Yarraville, Vic
5 June 2022
The art of non-violent direct action: rebels from XR Westside (Naarm) put principles into practice and tell the story.
A clear mandate to take urgent action on climate change
2 June 2022
Climate Action groups lined the road to Government House in Canberra on 1st June to remind the new Labor Cabinet about why they were elected.
