PLACES YOU LOVE   MEDIA RELEASE  13 December, 2013  ‘One-stop shop’ will weaken environmental protection The Prime Minister’s move to sign memoranda of understandings to hand environmental powers to the state and territory governments will weaken environmental protection, environmental organisations warned today. The Places You Love alliance, which represents more than 40 environmental groups are also concerned by agreements the Commonwealth has already signed with...

Solar Citizens has launched a petition to push back against a new proposal floated by the Australian Energy Market Commission to hit every solar home with a fee or tariff just to be connected to the grid.     Tell our State Premiers and Energy Ministers that you won’t stand for a tax on the sun by signing the petition from our friends at Solar Citizens here: We're collecting signatures on this 'Don't Tax the Sun' petition and have...

National Parks Association of Queensland calls on the QLD Government to: Remove cattle grazing from Queensland National Parks Protect National Parks from high impact recreation Prohibit resort construction on National Park land Expand National Park coverage beyond 5% View the video campaign message here Why is this important? 70% of Queenslanders visited a National Park in the past 12 months. This means over 3.2 million of us explored, experienced and enjoyed what our beautiful state has to offer. Yet disappointingly Queensland has the smallest allocation...

Invitation for comment until 31 January 2014 Draft strategic assessment documents The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Government are currently seeking public comment on their draft strategic assessment and program reports for the Great Barrier Reef Region and adjacent Coastal Zone. The public comment period closes on 31 January 2014. The public comment process is an opportunity for all members of the community to have a say on the future management of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and...

Design, route and operation proposed for Obi Obi unknown as subject to commercial-in-confidence EOI process   Check out this article in the latest edition of the Hinterland Times (pg 19) Are we scrambling the tourism golden egg by introducing commercial activity like a zipline into the iconic Kondalilla National Park? http://issuu.com/heat1870/docs/ht_dec13_jan14_web_edition

Trade Ministers from the 12 TPP countries will meet in Singapore on December 7-9 to...