On 13th March 2010 five women aged from 37 to 69 years old begin walking for a nuclear free and sustainable future to protect the natural environment for your children, grandchildren and their great grandchildren.

Follow our journey by reading our trip blog here or or click on read more below to see our walk route.

We are walking from Brisbane to Canberra working with many local people in townships along the way. Please support our courageous adventure by joining our walk – one hour, one day, one week, or the whole way or by donating.

Come and join us or wave as we walk by.

Please contact us we would love to hear from you:
e. [email protected]
p: 0438 169 414
w. www.footprintsforpeace.net

Friends of the Earth and a broad alliance of environment groups have today submitted concerns in response to the Queensland Government discussion paper "Strategic Cropping Land: policy and planning framework".

Friends of the Earth spokesperson Bradley Smith says that while the groups are hopeful, the proposed framework currently falls far short of protecting good quality agricultural farmland from coal mining.

“It is a monumental step forward that some of Queensland could finally be protected from coal mining and that some coal will stay in the ground, where it cannot damage our climate,” said Mr Smith.

Event: Women's Peace Walk Launch

Saturday March 13, 8am - 10am. Jagera Arts Centre, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane 

The Women's Peace Walk “Footprints for Peace” will begin their epic trek to Canberra to send a message of peace, environmental sustainability and anti-nuclear proliferation to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

The event is expected to take three months taking in many towns and cities before finishing in Canberra. Their journey will end at the Canberra Aboriginal Tent Embassy where the Message Stick will be presented to the Prime Minister.

The expanding coal industry has been invading some of Queensland's best food producing land, and farming community groups have been fighting to stay on the land. Help them by making a submission today!

Now, after over a year of campaigning by Friends of the Earth Brisbane's coal campaign, Six Degrees, the Queensland Government has announced they will change the legislation to protect good quality farmland from destructive mining expansion, and are welcoming comments on their discussion paper.

Please add your support to the creation of strong and broad protection to give certainty to landholders. The alternative is a weak policy riddled with loopholes, which is exactly what the coal industry will be lobbying for.

You can use the form on the campaign website to make a submission which will go straight to the Government. Feel free to use the example text provided, or to customise your own submission. For more information, go to the Government website here.