Environment Victoria

29/08/2026

Communities should have a stronger voice in the decisions that affect them.

Join community organisations, faith communities, neighbourhood houses, multicultural organisations and unions from across Melbourne’s west, together with Real Deal Geelong.

Be part of the first Our West, Our Future Assembly and help launch a region-wide listening campaign to shape our shared priorities and build towards collective action.

When is the event: Tue 15 September 6.30pm
Where: Italian Sports Club, Werribee

Bring your organisation. Bring a delegation. Build our collective voice.

Attendance is free, but registration is essential for entry.

Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/ourwestourfuture-registration

26/08/2026

Big news for offshore wind in Victoria.

Today, the Victorian Government launched its offshore wind auction, putting Victoria on course to harness the strong, persistent winds of Bass Strait for clean, reliable and affordable energy.

Offshore wind will play an important role as our ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-fired power stations retire over the next decade.

Renewables already supply more than 45% of Victoria’s electricity and offshore wind is a vital next step in building on that momentum.

As the industry develops, it needs to be done right: in consultation with Traditional Owners and local communities, and with strong protections for our precious marine environment.

We’re also calling on the Victorian Government to implement a whole-of-bay plan for Western Port, so offshore wind development goes hand-in-hand with properly protecting this internationally significant ecosystem.

Read our full statement:

Environment Victoria welcomed today’s announcement that the Carroll government has launched offshore wind auctions, noting that offshore wind farms taking advantage of the strong, persistent winds of Bass Strait can supply Victoria with reliable, affordable, home-grown clean energy at scale. Dr Ka...

25/08/2026

What are the issues our communities most want to change?

Over the coming months, organisations across Melbourne’s west will lead hundreds of conversations in their communities - listening to what matters, finding where our interests align, and identifying the issues we want to work on together.

What we hear will help shape our shared priorities and future agenda for action.

Join the Assembly and help launch the listening campaign.

When is the event: Tue 15 September 6.30pm
Where: Italian Sports Club, Werribee
Who should attend: We invite members, volunteers and leaders of community organisations, faith communities, neighbourhood houses, multicultural organisations and unions to attend, and encourage organisations to bring a delegation.

Attendance is free, but registration is essential for entry.

Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/ourwestourfuture-registration

22/08/2026

At the Assembly you will:

Hear stories from community leaders across Melbourne’s west and Geelong.

Build relationships with leaders from diverse community organisations.

See invited political representatives listen and respond to organised community.

Help launch a listening campaign to identify what matters most to our communities and build towards collective action.

This is a non-partisan public action bringing organised community and political representatives together.

When is the event: Tue 15 September 6.30pm
Where: Italian Sports Club, Werribee
Who should apply: We invite members, volunteers and leaders of community organisations, faith communities, neighbourhood houses, multicultural organisations and unions to attend.

Bring your organisation. Bring a delegation. Build our collective voice.

Attendance is free, but registration is essential for entry.

Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/ourwestourfuture-registration

19/08/2026

BREAKING : Jess Wilson just announced Vic Libs plan for higher electricity prices and more blackouts. Our Senior Climate & Energy Advisor Kat explains why this matters for all of us.

The Coalition's plan to cancel VNI West and back more gas is disastrous for energy prices and our climate.

The facts:

- electricity from renewables costs about half what gas and coal do.

- Victoria's coal power stations are ageing and unreliable

- Victorias gas reserves are almost gone, and what's left is expensive to get at.

- Gas corporations are sitting on record profits while ordinary households pay the price.

Cancelling the infrastructure that carries cheap, clean power to Victorian homes doesn't help with our cost-of-living, it does the opposite - hitching our wagon to the most expensive fuel in the market, and derails Victoria's path to 95% renewable energy by 2035.

19/08/2026

BREAKING : Jess Wilson just announced Vic Libs plan for higher electricity prices and more blackouts. Our Senior Climate & Energy Advisor Kat explains why this matters for all of us.

The Coalition's plan to cancel VNI West and back more gas is disastrous for energy prices and our climate.

The facts:
- electricity from renewables costs about half what gas and coal do.
- Victoria's coal power stations are ageing and unreliable
- Victorias gas reserves are almost gone, and what's left is expensive to get at.
- Gas corporations are sitting on record profits while ordinary households pay the price.

Cancelling the infrastructure that carries cheap, clean power to Victorian homes doesn't help with our cost-of-living, it does the opposite - hitching our wagon to the most expensive fuel in the market, and derails Victoria's path to 95% renewable energy by 2035.

18/08/2026

A powerful story highlighting how clean, renewable energy is helping farming families build resilience, support the next generation, and secure their future through drought and a changing climate 🌱⚡🚜

“It’s literally life-changing for us,” says Chris Laurie, whose family farm near Uralla on the Northern Tablelands is among those finding greater security through renewable energy.

Read the full story via Renew Economy.

New England farmers say their future, and their succession plans, depend on their ability to host wind, solar and even transmission, and are angry about efforts to stop them.

18/08/2026

Across Melbourne’s west, people are feeling the pressure of rising living costs, housing stress, transport challenges and growing pressure on local services.

The people experiencing these challenges should be part of shaping the solutions.

Our West, Our Future is a new alliance bringing organisations and communities across Melbourne’s west together to build relationships, find where our interests align, and build the collective power to create change.

It’s about making sure community is at the table, not just consulted after decisions have been made, and working with government on solutions shaped by the people they affect.

Alongside Real Deal Geelong and other alliances across Australia, we're building long-term relationships, developing local leaders and strengthening the capacity of organised communities to act for the common good, and we’d love you to join.

When is the event: Tue 15 September 6.30pm
Where: Italian Sports Club, Werribee
Who should apply: We invite members, volunteers and leaders of community organisations, faith communities, neighbourhood houses, multicultural organisations and unions to attend.

Bring your organisation. Bring a delegation. Build our collective voice.

Attendance is free, but registration is essential for entry.

Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/ourwestourfuture-registration

16/08/2026

Since late May, Wadi Wadi Elders and locals have been camping at the entrance of Nyah-Vinifera Park – an iconic Murray floodplain forest twenty kilometres downstream of Swan Hill.

They’re protesting construction of the Victorian Government’s risky plan to engineer the floodplain.

Dr. Dan Schulz – a River Fellow, campaigner, filmmaker and PhD researcher on the political ecology of the Baaka river – explains why in their latest post on substack.

Read the full article 👉🏽 schulzd.substack.com

Support Friends of Nyah-Vinifera Park (FNVP) 👉 www.gofundme.com/f/friends-of-nyahvinifera-park-blockade

Donation funds will support FNVP’s blockade and pay for maintaining the camp, monitoring, banners, equipment and public education 💚

13/08/2026

Join community members and leaders from across Melbourne’s west for the first public Assembly of the Our West, Our Future Alliance.

The Assembly will bring together organisations from across Melbourne’s west and Geelong to strengthen relationships, launch a region-wide listening campaign and build a shared agenda for action. Political representatives have been invited to listen and respond.

When is the event: Tue 15 Sep 6.30pm
Where: Italian Sports Club, Werribee
Who should apply: We invite members, volunteers and leaders of community organisations, faith communities, neighbourhood houses, multicultural organisations and unions to attend.

Bring your organisation. Bring a delegation. Build our collective voice.

Attendance is free, but registration is essential for entry.

Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/ourwestourfuture-registration