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Jess Tovey at Power Shift
Jess Tovey is a young Australian actor (from Underbelly, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo and Home and Away). She’s also a proud AYCC ambassador and gave a keynote speech at Power Shif this year. Here she writes in the National Times about why she’s passionate about climate change and the AYCC. http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/im-an-actor-and-im-worried-about-climate-change-20111013-1lmnd.html My name’s [...]
AYCC International
This year we’re sending a team of 13 young Australians to the UN climate change talks in Durban, South Africa. We’ll be working with young people from all across the world who are part of the international youth climate movement, and we’ll be talking to our Government about what young people want them to do [...]
Power Shift in the Sunshine Coast Daily
Power Shift was launched with a bang, with events in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra. In Brisbane, we were joined by Young Australian of the Year Jessica Watson. Here’s an article featuring Jess from the Sunshine Coast Daily: (20 August 2011) – It was time for political leaders to work together to address [...]
Jess Tovey launches Power Shift
Power Shift was launched with a bang, with events in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra. In Sydney actor Jess Tovey came along to show her support, and our event made it onto the back page of the Sydney Morning Herald. (17 August 2011) – As about 20 supporters watched, former Home and Away [...]
ABC online: Ellen Sandell on anti-carbon price scare campaigns
National Director Ellen Sandell takes a look at who’s behind the anti-carbon price scare campaign launched this weekend. (27 July 2011) – Some big businesses are putting their money where their mouths are, campaigning against the government’s climate policies. It should be remembered whose interests they really have at heart: their own. In 2010, Some [...]
Crikey: AYCC’s Sophie Trevitt on anti-carbon price campaigns
With the price on pollution package details now public, multi-billion dollar interest groups have launched a $10 million anti-carbon price advertising campaign. In this blog published on Crikey, AYCC’s Sophie Trevitt takes a look at who’s driving the campaign. (25 July 2011) – This weekend multi-billion dollar vested interest groups launched their $10 million “no [...]
The Daily Advertiser: Wagga youths tackling a taxing issue
The AYCC has members all across Australia who take part in our campaigns – members like Gemma, from Wagga Wagga. Check out this awesome article on Gemma and our Meet Your Member campaign in the Wagga Daily Advertiser. (1 July 2011) – Gemma Hawkins loves the great outdoors. This is why she has voiced her [...]
Parramatta Sun: Western Sydney-siders speak out
Western Sydney is often looked to as one of Australia’s key political battlegrounds – and the place where the carbon price debate could be won or lost. In this Parramatta Sun article, AYCC volunteer and West Sydney-sider Ramya Krishnan speaks about how climate change is viewed in her community. Parramatta resident Ramya Krishnan, from the [...]
Honi Soit: A Tom Collins with Ellen Sandell
A great interview with AYCC National Director Ellen Sandell with the University of Sydney student publication Honi Soit. (7 June 2011) – One thing is clear: Ellen Sandell isn’t sitting in the proverbial hammock, watching the trees sway in the breeze, being that kind of environmentalist. She’s busy – too busy to speak with me, [...]
