A group of farmers from the States Midwest have joined with conservationists, church leaders, unionists, social justice groups, lawyers and others at Parliament House to demonstrate their objection to anti-protest laws being debated in State Parliament.  

Western Australia’s peak environment group has warned that the lead government regulator for gas fracking in WA cannot be trusted to protect community health, groundwater and the environment due to conflicts of interest, inadequate regulations and a lack of transparency.  

Western Australia’s peak conservation organisation has commended the Environment Minister Albert Jacob and the Department of Parks and Wildlife for recent progress on improved artificial nesting hollows for endangered cockatoos, but warned that ongoing clearing of endangered cockatoo habitat must be urgently addressed to avoid the extinction of the species.  

Western Australia’s peak environment group has joined with churches, unions, WA Farmers, lawyers and other civil-society groups to defend the right to peaceful protest.

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has today joined a broad alliance opposing the Government’s proposed laws to criminalise protest activities. Over 30 organisations including, union, political, civil society, faith and environment groups have joined in a move to defend our democratic rights for peaceful protest.  

Proposed World Heritage site under threat in Mid-west

Members of the Save Beeliar Wetlands Campaign group met outside Main Roads offices today to flag their opposition to a pre-emptive meeting for contractors to build a controversial 6 lane tollway through Perth’s southern suburbs from Muchea to Fremantle Port before the formal environmental approvals are announced. The Roe 8 extension is part of a planned tollway, the 1.6 billion dollar Perth Freight Link which is looming as a divisive project for the state Liberal government whose financial management of the state’s finances has recently been widely criticised.

Leading national and state environment groups have vowed to actively contest today’s decision by Environment Minister Albert Jacob to approve the controversial Kintyre uranium mine proposal in an excised area from WA’s biggest National Park.