NEWS & EVENTS
WEBINAR: Frontline Responses to Australia’s Green Extractivism
Held on Monday 8 November 2021 Australian mining companies are investing all over the world in critical minerals such as copper, lithium and rare earth metals in order to cash in on profits to be made from the race to “net zero”. This land grab is being...
Aid Talks Webinar: RE-IMAGINING AID
This Aid Talks webinar seeks to examine why aid must be decolonised and the long overdue need for honest reflection, acknowledgement, and remedy for colonisation across all facets of modern life, including within the aid sector.
Is Australian Lithium the answer to Zero Emissions?
Australian groups have joined a global network of communities directly impacted by lithium mining, who are warning against drastically expanding mining in the name of ‘Green Energy’.
Lina Cabarero – an inspiration to us all!
Tribute to a passing friend who inspired us all
Re-imaging Australian Aid & Development
Register and Join the Aid/Watch AGM on Monday July 19 from 6 PM via zoom AID/WATCH 2021 AGM Monday 19 July, 6:00PM AEST via Zoom We invite you to the 2021 AID/WATCH AGM. Join us to hear what we have been up to and presentations from our partners Projects Sepik (PNG),...
Expert Report Submissions on Lynas PDF
EXPERT REPORT SUBMISSIONS ON LYNAS EIS March 2021 that was rejectedSubmission of objection of EIA for Lynas PDFSubmission of objection to Bukit Ketam PDF ConstructionSubmission of objection to Bukit Ketam PSubmission of concern Radioactive Waste Clarification...
MEDIA RELEASE: Cormann’s OECD appointment is bad news for aid effectiveness
Australia’s role as America’s pawn has been highlighted in a recent blow to the effectiveness of Australian aid with the appointment of Mathias Cormann as the Secretary General of the OECD. Mr Cormann’s well documented track record on climate change is in stark...
REJECT LYNAS RARE EARTHS RADIOACTIVE WASTE PERMANENT DISPOSAL FACILITY IN KUANTAN, MALAYSIA
Send a submission to the Jabatan Alam Sekitar (Department of Environment) Malaysia calling for the rejection of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) submitted by Lynas Rare Earths
MINING & COVID 19
Aid/Watch joined over 300+ organisations globally in contributing and signing on to the ‘Global Solidarity with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at Risk from Mining Pandemic Profiteers’ statement
JOINT LETTER: Global Social Protection Fund needed to provide basic services for all working people
A Joint Letter to Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Marise Payne calling for a Global Social Protection Fund
Lynas or lies?
“Simply put, Lynas has never had a social licence to operate – this would never be allowed here in Australia.”
NGOs Ask Australia to Suspend Lynas’ Rare Earth Export to its Malaysian Plant
Friends of the Earth Australia, AID/WATCH, together with Australian chapters of Malaysian BERSIH Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections and Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia Melbourne (SABMOZ) have responded to a petition that has gained momentum in Malaysia demanding that Australia suspends Lynas’ rare earth export to Malaysia because Lynas has no safe disposal facility for its radioactive waste.