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The Rainbow Warrior arrives in Port Melbourne to continue its "Quit Coal" campaign and bring the Clean Energy Revolution to Victoria. (c) Greenpeace/Cole
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Our first protest under the Greenpeace banner was against whaling and took place in Albany, West Australia on 28 August 1977. Since then we have worked on many environmental campaigns throughout the Pacific region such as peace, preventing climate change, stopping deforestation, reducing overfishing, keeping genetically engineered food out of Australia and a toxic free world.
Campaign head Steve Campbell said that the best birthday present this office could receive would be if Prime Minister Howard immediately ratified the Kyoto Protocol, agreed to reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions by 30% by 2020 and committed to a responsible phase-out of Australia’s involvement in the coal industry.
To celebrate our anniversary, Sydney’s CarriageWorks arts space will host a photographic retrospective from 15-30 September.
Campaign head Steve Campbell said that the best birthday present this office could receive would be if Prime Minister Howard immediately ratified the Kyoto Protocol, agreed to reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions by 30% by 2020 and committed to a responsible phase-out of Australia’s involvement in the coal industry.
To celebrate our anniversary, Sydney’s CarriageWorks arts space will host a photographic retrospective from 15-30 September.
More information about the exhibition
Sneak preview of some of the images in the exhibition
Key achievements of Greenpeace Australia Pacific
- 1989: The UN passes a moratorium on large-scale driftnets, saving thousands of Pacific marine animals and birds from a cruel and unnecessary death.
- 1995: A Greenpeace anti-nuclear peace flotilla protests French nuclear testing in the Pacific, and over 7 million people sign petitions calling for an end to testing.
- 1998: Following a 15 year campaign the Environmental Protection Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty comes into force, banning mining in Antarctica for 50 years.
- 2000: The Sydney 2000 Olympics becomes the first ever Green Games.
- 2002: Illegal logging in the Kiunga-Aiambak region of PNG is stopped.
- 2002: Greenpeace launches the inaugural True Food Guide, and six food companies declare their products free of GE-derived ingredients.
- 2002: The Australian government declares the world's largest no-take marine reserve at Heard Island.
- 2003: The greenhouse-polluting Stuart Shale Oil Project in Queensland is shut down.
- 2004: The commercial release of GE canola in Australia is stopped.
- 2005: Mitsubishi Paper agrees to stop buying woodchips sourced from Tasmania’s ancient forest.
