Australian Environment Foundation
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The Australian Environment Foundation (AEF ) is a not-for-profit advocacy organisation. It has disputed the values of some mainstream environmental assertions, and also on occasion the evidence used to support those assertions. The AEF is skeptical on climate change, pro-logging, pro-big business, anti-wind energy, and against the Murray-Darling Basin plan.[1][2][3]
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History
The formation of the AEF was first mooted at the Eureka Forum organised in December 2004 by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and a number of resource user groups.[4] It was formally launched on World Environment Day (5 June 2005) in the northern New South Wales town of Tenterfield.
The founding chairman was former Labor federal environment minister, Barry Cohen AM. A subsequent chairman was gardener, author and television presenter Don Burke OAM.[5] Reporting on the AEF's launch, the Melbourne broadsheet newspaper, The Age wrote: "Dr Marohasy said she acted as the group's leader as an individual and not part of the IPA."[6] At the time of registration, the registered office was the same is the registered office of the IPA.[7]
The group stated in its press release that "This new group will be vastly different to the established environment organisations that have had the ear of governments for some time. The AEF’s focus will be on making decisions based on science and what is good for both the environment and for people".[8][9]
The organisation has been labelled a "fake environmental group" by community advocacy organisation GetUp!.[10]
In May 2014 the group came under criticism for lobbying for the de-listing of Tasmania's World Heritage old-growth forest.[11]
Personnel
Former directors
- Dr Jennifer Marohasy, former Director
- Barry Cohen AM, Inaugural Chairman of AEF, former ALP Environment Minister
- Don Burke OAM, former Chairman
External links
AEF media releases
- Australian Environment Foundation, "World Environment Day Launches New Environment Group in Tenterfield", Media Release, 2 June 2005.
- Don Burke, "Nuclear Energy Only One Option Says Environment Group", Media Release, 11 July 2006.
- Australian Environment Foundation, Government finally acts on environmental water Media Release 27 February 2008
General articles
- Melissa Fyfe, "Cool reception for new green group", The Age, 8 June 2005.
- Liz Minchin, "Garden guru tips a bucket on greenies", The Age, 26 July 2005.
- Jewel Topsfield, "Push grows for Top End cotton", The Age, 9 March 2007.
- "Woody weeds out of control: veg laws blasted", North Queensland Register, 30 August 2007.
- Leslie Cannold, "It matters who you are, and where you come from", The Age,14 November 2006.
- Oliver Milman, "IPA-founded group lobbying for forest world heritage delisting", "The Guardian", 15 May 2014
- William Laurance, "Beware environmental wolves in sheep's clothing", "The Ecologist", 9 June 2014
References
- ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3458728.htm
- ↑ http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/wind-power-in-the-sights-of-climate-change-deniers-the-australian-environment-foundation/story-e6frerdf-1226651595470
- ↑ http://www.theecologist.org/campaigning/2426409/beware_environmental_wolves_in_sheeps_clothing.html
- ↑ Inaugural Eureka Forum - Reclaiming the Environment Invitation to forum
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- ↑ The Age, 6 June 2008, Cool reception for new green group
- ↑ ASIC Direct Current Extract for Australian Environment Foundation Ltd. Sourced from ASIC database on 7 June 2006
- ↑ World Environment Day Launches New Environment Group in Tenterfield media release. Australian Environment Foundation. 2 June 2005. Retrieved 22 November 2015
- ↑ ABC Radio National Counterpoint, 6 June 2008 broadcast
- ↑ http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/article/getup-the-fake-environment-group-/
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/ipa-founded-group-lobbying-for-forest-world-heritage-delisting.
