WATCH members have repeatedly expressed concerns about the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC), particularly the large proportion of NCCC members who are affiliated with the fossil fuel industry and the Commission’s intent to focus on a gas-driven economic recovery. Well done to Jill Coghlan for her submission to a parliamentary inquiry into the NCCC and…
On 29 January 2020, WATCH produced the following media release: 2019 was Australia’s hottest and driest year on record, heralding Australia’s longest bushfire season. Locally records were also broken, with Border Mail letters to the editor on climate change hitting an all-time high and signalling strong community support for climate action. Wodonga Albury Toward Climate…
This media release became The Border Mail’s front page story on 9 October 2018. Media release – 8/10/18 Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C and emission pathways to achieve this goal, a report described by the authors as one of the…
By Lizette Salmon Last month Wodonga Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH) celebrated its 10th year. A decade with six prime ministers and five Border Mail editors. Changes aplenty, but we’re still here. As a non-partisan climate advocacy group, we began by meeting dozens of politicians from all levels of government, including a Federal and two state Shadow…
Thanks to those who joined us this week for our photo action calling for AGL to exit dirty energy. The event featured in an article in the Border Mail newspaper today – read it in full here or below. Our photographs will be combined with others from communities across Australia and presented at the AGL annual general meeting…
What a wonderful wedding! Big thanks to our MC Lauriston Muirhead, Father Peter Mcleod-Miller, Bridget Doyle (Baroness bride), Jim Sloan (MP) and Marjorie Glanville (music). Congratulations to all involved and thanks also to those who joined us at the wedding. The order of service for the wedding is here. This action aimed to draw attention to…
Almost a decade of fierce debate around climate change has led to a total of 339 passionate letters published in The Border Mail.No one followed this more closely than Wodonga Albury Toward Climate Health committee member Lizette Salmon, who has compiled all the letters since 2007 in a scrapbook. Her goal was to track public…
The WATCH media release below resulted in an article in the Border Mail newspaper today (7 January 2015). — MEDIA RELEASE – WORLD’S HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD 6 January 2015 The year 2014 is potentially the hottest year on record across the world according to figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Globally it’s almost certain…
http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/2280868/federal-budget-2014-reaction-from-border-residents/?cs=53 ENVIRONMENT: An ‘anti-future’ climate policy THE government’s climate-change policies will encourage extreme weather such as bushfires and floods, according to a Border environmental campaigner. The government last night said it would cut the carbon tax and provide subsidies for fossil-fuel companies. It is also axing the Australian Renewable Energy Agency that has funded clean-energy…
Note: The following media release was picked up by The Border Mail’s Country Mail (published on 29.3.14), Prime7 television news (screened 26.3.14) and ABC Goulburn Murray local news (aired 17.3.14). Summer is officially over but local horticulturalists are still reeling from the consequences of January and February heatwaves. Citrus, avocado, apple and fig crops were…
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