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Peace and Environment

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  Global body puts climate in classroom

  April 22, 2021

  Education International, representing 32.5 million teachers and education support personnel worldwide, has launched a global campaign to ensure climate education becomes as fundamental as teaching reading and writing.

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  Federation members demand Australia backs UN nuclear ban treaty

  January 19, 2021

  Just months after the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the relentless pursuit of a global ban on nuclear weapons by peace activists across the world will shortly come to fruition.

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  Thought-provoking entries received for Sam Lewis Peace Prize

  January 12, 2021

  A distance education student with limited access to power and technology has won the grand prize in the 2020 Sam Lewis Peace Prize Awards.

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  Union sides with people and the planet over profits

  December 12, 2020

  Federation supports the campaign against the 850-well coal seam gasfield approved for development and operation in the Pilliga State Forest and on grazing land south-west of Narrabri.

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  From crisis comes innovation to change nature of environmental education

  November 29, 2020

  One area of the NSW public school system particularly affected by COVID- 19 restrictions was the state’s 25 environmental and zoo education centres.

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  Solar Our Schools

  November 26, 2020

  Stately Kirribilli House gained a pink, solar-powered cubby house delivered by a convoy of parents and children on 30 September, carrying an urgent message: Solar Our Schools.

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  New alliance aims to end energy policy impasse

  November 20, 2020

  A new alliance of union and environment groups in the Hunter was officially formed in November.

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  Fresh hope for action on climate change as bushfire recovery continues

  November 11, 2020

  “You chose hope and unity, decency, science and, yes, truth.”