Skip navigation.

Jul 05

Rainbow Warrior blocks Newcastle's shipping port and prevents the export of coal. Enlarge image

Local support for clean energy action

This morning, Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, slipped through Newcastle harbour and dropped anchor to block the channel and close down the world's biggest coal port.

The Rainbow Warrior brings clean energy solutions to Newcastle. Enlarge image

Hunter voices launch clean solutions

Every day, dozens of ships appear off Newcastle harbour to load up with coal for Asia. Imagine those same ships laden with solar cells and wind turbine from sustainable industries.

Rainbow Warrior enters Sydney Harbour with its quit coal message. Enlarge image

Help the Rainbow Warrior push clean energy

The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, has arrived in Sydney to begin its Clean Energy Revolution tour. The ship will be spreading its "Quit Coal" message and activities, which you can be a part of.

Protester picketing outside Bayer's head office in Melbourne. Enlarge image

Bayer rejects responsibility for GE contamination

Eight Greenpeace volunteers have been arrested after peacefully occupying Bayer CropScience headquarters to demand that the biotech giant take responsibility for Australia’s most serious genetic engineering (GE) contamination.

Tony (right), the first in our team to cross the finish line last year, chats with Julian Morrow of ABC TV's CNNN. Enlarge image

Lonely Planet joins our City to Surf team

Lonely Planet publishing co-founder Tony Wheeler will join the Greenpeace City to Surf team again this year to help raise funds for our climate and energy campaign.

The Rainbow Warrior makes her way out to the commemoration ceremony in Matuari Bay marking 20 years since the original Rainbow Warrior was bombed. Enlarge image

Meeting of the Rainbow Warriors

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior (II) is in Matauri Bay, New Zealand to join in a moving Maori ceremony.

Peace groups unite. Enlarge image

Peace groups unite as US ships enter Sydney

Three US naval ships in Sydney harbour received a different sort of welcome yesterday, when peace groups including church leaders, doctors and environmentalists united to question naval commanders over the weapons that may be carrying.

The Global Rescue Station helps the campaign to save Tassie's forests. Enlarge image

Victory for Tasmania’s forests

Mitsubishi Paper Mill (MPM) will stop sourcing its wood chips from old growth Tasmanian forests. Instead the company will buy wood chips from plantations or second growth forests of environmentally benign and reclaimed wood.

Greenpeace beam the impacts of greenhouse-polluting onto façade of Hazelwood. Enlarge image

Spotlight on polluting power

Hazelwood, in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, is Australia’s most greenhouse polluting power station.

Greenpeace attempts to deliver the petitions to John Howard. Enlarge image

Government Receives Whale Petition

Greenpeace activists, accompanied by boats from five of Sydney’s largest commercial whale-watching companies, attempted to deliver the first batch of signatures for an emergency 26,000-person petition to Mr Howard at Kirribilli House wharf in Sydney.

AddThis Feed Button