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Save Hookina Waterhole

February 14, 2026

Friends of the Earth Adelaide is supporting the Kuyani Traditional Owners and cultural custodians of Pungka Pudinha (Hookina Waterhole), as they try to save this very special place, located just outside the Yappala Indigenous Protected Area in the Flinders Ranges.

Click here to go directly to their gofundme campaign page.

 

Hookina is a registered cultural site with huge significance both culturally and environmentally, but now it is without water.

The activity shown in the images below, including the placement of pumps and the removal of water, occurred without the free, prior and informed consent of the Kuyani Traditional Owners.

This activity has destroyed the ecosystem of the waterhole, causing serious and ongoing harm to Country, culture, and the interconnected life systems that rely on this sacred place.

No person, organisation, or authority has the right to interfere with a sacred Aboriginal site without the consent of its Traditional Owners.

They are calling for:

• Immediate cessation of all activity at Pungka Pudinha

• A full investigation under Aboriginal heritage and environmental legislation

• Cultural and environmental remediation led by Kuyani Traditional Owners

• Recognition of and respect for Kuyani Traditional Owner authority and custodianship

• inclusion of the Hookina Spring System into the Yappala Indigenous Protected Area.

They need your help and are raising funds to help raise awareness for the protection of this very special place.

Please donate whatever you can. Funds will be used for travel, printing materials and other associated costs with raising the profile of this issue.

Adelaide FoE Notes, FoE

Fundraiser for Friends of the Earth’s anti-nuclear campaign

January 17, 2026

Over the summer, Friends of the Earth Australia is raising funds to support its National Anti-Nuclear Campaign and core operations.

FoE runs on the smell of an oily rag. We are self-sustaining, independent and never accept money from political parties, big banks, or extractive industries. As a result, we rely on the generosity of people like yourself to help make sure we can stand up to the powers that be.

FoE’s National Anti-Nuclear Campaign is as important as ever. The following are a few of the issues we must continue to respond to:

  • the Coalition’s unrealistic nuclear energy policy, which it did not abandon even after the policy was repudiated at the May 2025 federal election
  • proposed AUKUS submarines, which will make us all poorer and less safe, even if they are never delivered
  • uranium mines, which continue to damage the environment, including the Olympic Dam mine’s impact on the precious Mound Springs due to excessive water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin
  • never-ending attempts to impose nuclear waste dumps on unwilling communities.

Click here to visit the fundraiser website.

Adelaide FoE Notes, FoE, Nuclear

Nuke Submarine ‘community consultation’

November 23, 2025

Australian Naval Infrastructure (ANI) is conducting a ‘community consultation’ about its plan to lodge a site licence application for the ‘Nuclear-Powered Submarine Construction Yard Project’. An application has to be lodged with the new Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulator before it can prepare a site for a Naval Nuclear Propulsion facility.

We wonder why they are in such a hurry to apply for a site licence when the Strategic Impact Assessment (SIA – Commonwealth process) and the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS – State government process) haven’t even been finalised. FoE Adelaide made submissions to both these processes (click to read our SIA submission & our EIS submission) in March 2025, but no public submissions and no follow-up report have been published. We also made a submission on the new nuclear powered submarine Regulations, which came into effect on 1 November 2025 without any response to the public comments received.

Click here (251123FoEAdelaideSubmission) to read our submission to ANI’s site licence ‘community consultation’.

And let us never forget that acquiring nuclear powered submarines is a bad idea in the first place.

Adelaide FoE Notes, FoE, Nuclear

FoE Adelaide AGM Saturday Nov 15th, 2pm

November 10, 2025

Our AGM is at the Minor Works Building Community Centre at 2pm on Saturday, November 15th.
[The Minor Works Building is at 22 Stamford Ct, Adelaide —
there is a wide path leading to the centre between 50 and 52 Sturt Street]

Non-members are welcome.

Agenda

2pm – videos and discussion on AUKUS nuclear submarines
David Noonan and Jim Green will be present for the discussion.
See
 ‘AUKUS nuclear waste targets SA’ a new 2-page Briefer, with Calls on all SA politicians (Federal & State) and candidates for the SA State Election on 21st March to declare their positions on storage of AUKUS nuclear waste in SA, and a Call for full disclosure on the Federal Gov’s ongoing nuclear waste storage siting review ‘process’.“The people and environment of South Australia must be protected from Federal imposed storage of AUKUS High-Level nuclear waste”

Brief by David Noonan Independent Environment Campaigner 9 Nov 2025 here.

3.15pm – AGM – reports from officebearers, election of new Admin & Strategy Collective.
3.45pm close
Zoom – please RSVP for  link
Tea, coffee and snacks provided
We’d love to have some new people join us on the Admin & Strategy Collective.
We meet mainly via zoom, and occasionally at a cafe in the city, at mutually convenient times.
Please come along and help us make quorum.
RSVP and enquiries: Robyn Wood, Secretary adelaide.office@foe.org.au or 0423 219 096

Adelaide FoE Notes, FoE

Say No to Nuclear Financing – World Bank and ADB

September 1, 2025

Until now the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have not provided finance for nuclear energy projects.
 
However, on June 10 the World Bank’s Board decided to lift its ban on financing nuclear projects. The ADB is currently reviewing its energy policy, and indications suggest it may also move to allow support for nuclear power.
 
This international petition, which is endorsed by a large number of organisations including Friends of the Earth Australia and the Australian Conservation Foundation, is now open for individual signatures.
 
 
Please sign on.

Adelaide FoE Notes, FoE, Nuclear