By Darshini Heaney, posted 25 April, 2017.

While talking to parliamentarians with Citizen’s Climate Lobby in March, we were told that the negative health consequences of climate change is an area where there is bipartisan interest and concern. The following is a summary of the points made in…

“They need us” said one of the volunteers in our round of ‘highlights and insights’ at the end of 2 days lobbying in Parliament. There were nods and sounds of agreement around the group; we were all so pleased as well as surprised at how well we had been...

I am sure Rod will make a longer post here shortly, and give lots of details. We had a grand time, with many successful meetings. Generally the MPs and staff we met with were very encouraging and supportive of the work we are doing. Good progress was made towards...

Tired and happy! We have completed our briefing and training day for our meetings at Parliament House, Canberra. We learned together and had fun together We now look forward to our meetings tomorrow.  We have thirty meetings, for which thirty intrepid CCL volunteers have made their way to Canberra....

Our zoom meeting tonight, open to all members, is tonight, 8pm on March 9. The link to meeting, and the dial in numbers, appear in the newsletter sent earlier this week – if you are a member and didn’t see it, search for the sender CCL Australia. Excitement and...

Our member Steve Posselt has completed Kayak to Canberra. Leaving Ballina on January 17 he paddled to Moruya, and then dragged the Kayak to Canberra, arriving on February 25. As his many stops along the way, Steve collected 18, 000 signatures for the climate emergency declaration petition which he...

ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE! Join us on November 26-27 for the Citizens Climate Lobby Conference in Canberra, ACT, as we keep moving Australia towards passage of Carbon Fee and Dividend. Next year will be critical for climate change policy and we need to be there. This conference is a big opportunity for us...

This coming week will be our biggest by far! We have two meetings with MPs, Dennis Jensen and Anthony Albanese and one with Julie Bishop’s staff staff. We will be meeting with the Environment Reporter of The West Australian with a view to meeting the Editor as soon possible....