Fossil Free UWA
By Maya Taylor-Trenow
With last year’s funding cuts to Australian universities, the pandemic-induced decrease in international student enrolments, and the financial support offered by its close ties with oil and gas companies such as Chevron, Woodside and LNG, UWA’s Fossil …
Climate change stays on Joondalup City Council agenda
By Martin Dickie
As many of you will know, the Divestment arm of 350.org is waging a very successful campaign, urging all local authorities to shift their accumulated capital to banks that refuse to finance fossil fuel exploration or extraction. …
Western Australian Local Government Divestment
Western Australian Local Government Survey:
https://www.350perth.org.au/lgd_survey
The divestment campaign to move funds away from supporting fossil
fuels is one of the fastest in history. Announcements are occurring with increasing regularity including recently the Newcastle Council with $270 million in investments …
There’s more to super fund HESTA’s divestment than ethics
When industry superannuation fund HESTA announced it would sell its A$23 million stake in offshore immigration detention centres Transfield, it wasn’t the first to do so. UniSuper had rather more quietly decided to divest its holding months ago -– but …