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Dumping nuclear waste on indigenous land is wrong (The Punch) - March 14, 2012
Dave Sweeney

Radioactive waste lasts a lot longer than any politician and we need to get its management right. The National Radioactive Waste Management legislation is profoundly wrong.
Fukushima anniversary reminds us there are better options than nuclear (The Conversation) - March 12, 2012
Ian Lowe

It is a year since the Fukushima reactor was swamped by a tsunami, knocking out the cooling systems and causing a series of explosions. A large area is still off-limits to the local people, with about 100,000 residents unable to return home.
Right track for a clean energy future (Climate Spectator) - March 8, 2012
Simon O'Connor

Encouraging Australia to gradually develop healthier and cheaper energy resources would serve its population well for decades to come.
Regional Australia needs a healthy flowing Murray (The Punch) - February 14, 2012
Don Henry

After a wetter than average year in the Murray-Darling many people think the problems of Australia’s most important river system are solved. They’re not.
Has Woodside hit its price point on the environment? (The Punch) - February 2, 2012
Simon O'Connor

The Browse Basin gas hub development has stoked up so much opposition on so many fronts that many investors are now asking if the project is still economically viable.
Slacking off on climate is just not cricket (ABC Environment) - January 23, 2012
Ian Lowe

The job of tackling climate change has not gone away. We need to let the scaremongering of vested interests go through to the 'keeper, writes ACF president Ian Lowe.
No comfort, little joy in reports on environment (Canberra Times) - January 2, 2012
Ian Lowe

There were very few surprises in recent government environment reports on the world we will live in – which itself is disappointing, writes ACF president Ian Lowe
Murray Murmurings: no jobs on a dead river (Crikey) - December 23, 2011
Simon O'Connor

Environmental values, even if hard to pin down, are very much "economic" and must not be ignored — there will be no jobs on a dead river, writes ACF's economic adviser Simon O'Connor.
Plimer’s climate change book for kids underestimates science education (The Conversation) - December 20, 2011
Ian Lowe

The forces of climate science denial have geared down a level. Having failed in their attempt to confuse adults and stop the parliament adopting a timid first step in response to climate change, they are now trying to get at schoolkids, writes ACF president Ian Lowe.
Watering down the Murray Darling plan would be fatal (The Punch) - November 28, 2011
Paul Sinclair

Many of us learnt at school that the great Nile River sustained Egypt through floods that nourished the fertility of the river’s floodplain. Our Murray and Darling Rivers are no different writes Paul Sinclair, ACF healthy ecosystems program manager.
Selling uranium to India will literally blow up in our face (The Punch) - November 18, 2011
Dave Sweeney

Prime Minister Julia Gillard would do well to consider some bigger issues than the praise of conservative political insiders when it comes to plans to sell uranium to India, a country not bound to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, writes Dave Sweeney ACF nuclear free campaigner.
New measures of progress mean little without action (Open Forum) - November 18, 2011
Charles Berger

Discussions surrounding appropriate community progress measures have been going on in Australia, and world-wide, for decades. Discussion is good, but Charles Berger ACF Strategic Director, is frustrated that little has been done to translate that talk into action.
What green jihad? A response to Ross Elliott (Online Opinion) - September 2, 2011
Charles Berger

Director of Strategic Ideas Charles Berger's response to Ross Elliott's article "Waging a green jihad on suburban homes".