Fishing nets as wide as eight kilometres and bottom trawling are devastating Australia’s marine life and undermining a Federal Government promise to create marine sanctuaries.

With the health of the rivers and the communities that rely on them at stake, we need economically responsible action that ensures that the rivers keep flowing whilst building stronger, more economically diverse and sustainable rural communities.

For over 30 years, people across Australia have aspired to see Tasmania's unique and important forests protected from the threat of logging. They have protested, rallied, lobbied, negotiated, photographed, researched and written about these precious forests. Now, a new agreement can deliver the protection we've all worked so hard to achieve.

This week hundreds of Broome residents met Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke at a ‘picnic in the park’ to tell him what they thought about Woodside’s plans for a huge industrial processing plant in their backyard.