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The Ethinvest team and our clients regularly find informative articles and news that is worth sharing. We hope you enjoy our selection and please feel free to use the share features to spread the news.
Give blood today: An appeal from Red Cross
The Red Cross' Lifeblood service has issued a critical appeal for blood donors after their reserves fell to their lowest level in almost a decade. A prolonged cold and flu season has resulted in fewer donations and many cancellations. If you are healthy and can help ensure Lifeblood can meet the needs of Australia's hospitals around the country, please book in to donate. In Sydney, one of many Lifeblood collection centres is located in Ethinvest's building at 1 York Street on
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Tell Albo to make big polluters pay
ActionAid and a collation of some of Australia's biggest charities have teamed up to ask Australia's PM to make coal, oil and gas corporations pay their fair share through new taxes and fines to help communities recover and rebuild from climate impacts and for investment in climate solutions. Sign their letter to ask the Anthony Albanese show leadership and raise funds from those doing the damage to pay for the rising cost.
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Tell Woolies and Coles to stop selling Tas-farmed Salmon
Both Woolies and Coles continue to sell salmon farmed in Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour despite knowing this farming is the primary threat to the endangered Maugean skate. The AGMs of both companies are coming up. Take a moment to write to both via Environment Tasmania and ask them to drop the salmon and save the skate. #savetheskatemate
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Join GetUp! to keep the pressure on Coles to end Palantir contract
The team at GetUp! just announced a major win with supermarket giant Coles agreeing it will not renew its contact with artificial intelligence company Palantir Technologies. Help keep the pressure on Coles to ensure they keep their promise to end its Palantir contract and follow GetUp!'s efforts to end the practise in stores across Australia.
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Demand your elected officials step up action to regulate single use plastic
The federal government announced in September 2026 it will shelve a 2023 promise to implement national packaging standards aimed at curbing plastic waste, citing cost of living concerns. As Australia is the second-largest generator of single-use plastic waste per person in the world there is no time to waste. Please join the Boomerang Alliance and tell your elected officials that the government must act to legislate an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Scheme for Packagi
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Join Market Forces in calling on Australian banks not to fund fracking in the Beetaloo Basin
In early September 2026, the first gas from the Beetaloo Basin fracking project in the Northern Territory began to flow despite years of protest and legal action by environmental and local community groups. While gas extraction has begun, the company behind the project, Tamboran Resources, needs the backing of Australia's major banks to operate. Join Market Forces in telling banks including Macquarie, ANZ, Westpac, CommBank and NAB not to fund this national "carbon bomb" by s
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Take your next steps to go electric with Saul Griffith
Rewiring Australia’s Saul Griffith shows you how to take your next steps to go electric. Open their new Electric Saul website, type in your postcode and you can see what to upgrade next, how to understand the numbers and how to get started on (or continue!) your electrifying journey at home.
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Tell Albo to electrify the lodge!
Did you know that both residences of the Prime Minister – the Lodge in Canberra and Kirribilli House in Sydney – still use expensive, polluting gas to the tune of $111k in energy bills each year as gas prices rise? Join Friends of the Earth in writing to our PM Anthony Albanese asking him to electrify both residences as soon as possible. In a climate and cost-of-living crisis, we need leaders who can lead, not just ask the Australian people to transition while they sit back.
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Ban gambling advertising – email your MP
Join the Alliance for Gambling Reform to tell your MP to support and commit to all of the recommendations made by the Murphy Report, the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into online gambling including a ban on online gambling ads. Input your post code to send an email directly to your MP here.
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