While the government backsteps on its election promise, Greenpeace joins forces with Australia's largest timber bodies to call for illegal logging legislation.
Greenpeace activists recently blockaded two Queensland ports to protest Kevin Rudd’s huge expansion of the export coal industry at a time when climate change is threatening the future of the Pacific Islands. The action was timed to coincide with the vital climate discussions taking place at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Cairns. Here's the low down.
At 2.30pm today, Greenpeace steamed its largest vessel the Esperanza into Hay Point Coal Terminal aiming to block a coal berth at one of the world’s largest coal export ports.