Over the past two days over 60 academics, students and activists from Australia and New Zealand gathered in Brisbane to discuss ways of challenging the neoliberal takeover of universities and reclaiming them as public good institutions. These included the development...
Academics from across Australia and New Zealand are descending on Brisbane for the next two days to discuss how to challenge the increasing corporatisation of universities, which is drastically reducing the quality of research and academic life. Challenging the...
Friends of the Earth is concerned that proposed changes to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 that would delete the definitions of GMO (genetically modified organism) and GM product from the Act are an attempt to deregulate risky new genetic engineering...
A submission from Friends of the Earth, Food Irradiation Watch, GeneEthics, MADGE and the GM-Free Australia Alliance to FSANZ’s review of its Safe Food Australia publication.
Friends of the Earth has renewed its calls for a recall of food products containing nanomaterials following the release of a new study which found that titanium dioxide (TiO2) in food is absorbed into the human bloodstream. The calls follow the release of independent...