A ‘visitation’ supporting the Surf Coast Air Action community’s calls for Alcoa to shut down its toxic Anglesea coal power plant, March 2015
Clive Palmer hemmed in by adoring Billionaire Coal Diggers on his first day of Federal Parliament, November 2013
Climate Guardians at the COP21 entrance at dawn on the first day personally delivering heartfelt letters, artworks and poems from young Australians urging world leaders to consider their futures —while civil guardians of the event security team stand watch also. One of the Angels was a 75 year old mother of five, grandmother of eight and a great-grandmother of three children as well as the first person in Australia to have been arrested for taking direct action against gas fracking, and a recipient of a United Nations Association of Australia community award for her commitment to world peace and the environment
Image courtesy of Jo Evans
The Coal Diggers host a Laborals #VoteCoal Party on the steps of Parliament early on the Friday before Victorian State election, November 2014
Climate Guardians supporting Pilliga Push’s blockade of Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project involving 850 coal seam gas wells in the Pilliga State Forest. In addition to threatening the largest inland forest left in Eastern Australia, Santos’ project sits above a critically important ‘recharge zone’ supporting the crucial pressure head enabling ground water from the Great Artesian Basin to flow to the surfaces of the massive expanse of land dependent on it (yep, for growing food), dawn 9 February 2016
Coal Diggers performing the Australia is Our Giant Quarry Tango
Flat Earth Institute appear as expert witnesses at the Abbott government’s Renewable Energy Inquisition, February 2014
Coal Diggers welcomed guests at The Heartland Institute’s counter-COP21 conference at the Hotel California in Paris, December 2015
Read our Submission to to Independent Review into Future Security of National Electricity Market
At dawn on 25 September 2016, anticipating the arrival of Earthworker Walk With the Valley walkers
Coal Diggers with BUMS Gina, Ruppie and Johnny from IPA, welcoming the press at the Green Group Inquisition, September 2015
Climate Guardians blockading Brisbane’s G20, November 2014
Occupying the red carpet and delaying the Heartland Institute’s world premiere screening of The Climate Hustle. Here we are with our mentor Lord Monckton, December 2015
Image courtesy of Maggie Miles
BUMS, Billionaires United Mining Services at ANZ
Climate Guardians descended on London’s Australian embassy, a key voting centre in the weeks before Australia’s 2016 Federal election, July 2016
Climate Guardians honoured with an Environment Victoria Community Environment Recognition Award, October 2016
In a few prominent public places—including the Palais Royale, the Archives Nationales in Paris and the Paris Opera—highly talented and dedicated young musicians (also dressed as Angels) played music in between our readings of Australian children’s letters
Blockading the VIP entrance of Brisbane’s G20, for which the Climate Guardians earned the Courier Mail’s ‘Most Aussie Moment’ after agreeing to end their three and a half hour ‘visitation’ in exchange for a lift to the pub of their choice, November 2014
Climate Guardians host a Press Conference in Parliament House Canberra on the Carbon Price Repeal Legislation with the Hon. Kelvin Thompson, Sen. Christine Milne and Sen. Louise Pratt, Day 2 Abbott Federal government
To add to Fossil Free MU’s celebrations during Enviro Week, BUMS CEO2 Coral Bleach bridled fellow coal devotee Senator Malcolm Roberts [the living soul], August 2016
After nearly four hours blockading Engie’s global headquarters in bitter cold, kneeling before a Parisian riot squad detailing the findings of a major report on Engie’s failings of Victoria’s Latrobe Valley community
Expert witnesses: Adjunct Professor Greenhausen, Emeritus Emissionraiseth, Chancellor Carbonacious and Vice Chancellor Kingcoal
