Please note that the February ASC/CFC meeting (23 Feb) has been cancelled due to our planning meeting taking place on 2 March at the Box Factory. Our March 30 ASC/CFC meeting will not be held due to our AGM on the same night. ASC/CFC returns to normal in April.
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Flinder Local Action Group met in Hawker on the weekend for the latest campaign meeting against a nuclear dump near Hawker. Lots of activities are planned for the near future as the campaign continues for most of this year until the federal government makes their final decision.
Friends of the Earth Adelaide have financially given support to FLAG, and FOE members have attended meetings in Quorn and Pt Augusta, and a rally in Pt Augusta. If you would like to donate to FLAG or have an idea for fundraising please contact adelaide.office@foe.org.au
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Photo Credit: Cat Beaton
Friends of the Earth’s campaigning was instrumental in getting legislation introduced in 1977 to require a refund of the deposit on the price of drink cans and bottles.
Campaigners marched from Adelaide Uni to the steps of Parliament House to roll thousands of cans down the steps.
Refer to the following article.
From the article:
Sustainability Minister Ian Hunter said “About 580 million drink containers are recycled in the state every year.”
“The Government said the state’s waste and recycling sector employs almost 5,000 South Australians”
Congratulations to members of Friends of the Earth active during the 70s. We await the rest of Australia and the world to catch on.
Please make a brief email submission to the APVMA Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority asking them to take notice of the World Health Organisations findings that glyphosate (Roundup) is a potential carcinogen. This is being organised by Friends of the Earth Melbourne.
Link to make an easy submission here
Roundup is widely used for weed control around the world, especially in home gardens and by councils. It is also used on GM crops and to help non GM crops around harvest time.
From the FOE Melbourne website:
Last year the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – declared glyphosate – the main ingredient in the herbicide RoundUp – a probable carcinogen. We hoped that the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) – would intervene to protect our health. It hasn’t.
The APVMA has decided not to review its current approval for glyphosate because it claims to know better than the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organisation. Why so? Because it has access to unpublished industry data that has never been subject to peer review and that regulators refuse to make public!
Who trusts the word of giant chemical companies over the World Health Organisation?
Monsanto has made enormous profits from virtually unrestricted use of glyphosate and now the truth has come out. Monsanto has lied to us again – and the APVMA must stop supporting an industry that is putting all of us at unnecessary risk.
Contact us if you need help with your submission adelaide.office@foe.org.au