Her paintings hang in the Australian National Gallery and London's National Portrait gallery. She has won the Archibald Prize two times. Now Judy Cassab has taken on her next artistic challenge: the Greenpeace Art for Action competition!
The Murray Darling Basin is Australia's lifeblood. It irrigates 70 per cent of our crops and pastures, and provides drinking water to three million people. Now our largest river system may die because of climate change. But there are solutions to save the Murray.
Sydney had a clean energy boost on Sunday when a Greenpeace City to Surf team burst onto the track. Along the 14 kilometre route, human wind turbines and strolling solar panels promoted Greenpeace’s clean energy campaign. There was even a polluting coal stack spotted in the crowd. The team, headed by Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler, raised vital funds for Greenpeace campaigns and had a fun day in the sun.
The day after taking on the developed world's most greenhouse-polluting power plant – Hazelwood power station in the Latrobe Valley – Greenpeace today dumped sacks of coal at the front of Victoria’s Parliament House.
A fortnight after closing the world’s largest coal export port (in Newcastle, NSW), Greenpeace is taking on the developed world’s most greenhouse-polluting power plant in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.
As Greenpeace suspected, the West Australian government has found that some of its canola crops are contaminated by Bayer's genetically engineered (GE) canola. There is also a possibility that this contamination could have spread to another three states.
Australian Peace and Disarmament campaigner, Kieran Longridge writes from Hiroshima, where she attended the commemoration ceremonies and a Mayors for Peace conference.
On 6 August 1945 the US dropped the world’s first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and then another three days later on Nagasaki. The death, suffering and destruction that followed were unprecedented in the history of war. More than 100,000 people died instantly, generations were afflicted and died of illnesses caused by radiation.
