Parents For Climate - West Melbourne

14/01/2026

🌿 World Wetlands Day | An Evening of Possibility 🌿

Wetlands are some of the most life-rich ecosystems on Earth — places where plants, birds, insects and water come together in extraordinary ways. They’re also among the most impacted by urbanisation.

To mark World Wetlands Day, West Footscray Library is hosting a special evening with Gio Fitzpatrick, an award-winning naturalist and ecological designer.

Gio specialises in restoring nature in heavily modified, multi-use spaces. His current project is the transformation of the former Elsternwick Golf Course into the Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve — turning manicured fairways into habitat for native plants and wildlife.

In this talk, Gio will share the fascinating stories of wetland life, what makes these ecosystems thrive, and how even small urban spaces — parks, streets, and backyards — can be re-imagined to support living systems. It’s a hopeful invitation to imagine what might be possible here in the west.

📅 Monday 2 February 2026
⏰ 6:30–8:00pm
📍 West Footscray Library
💰 Free (bookings essential)
🔗 Book here:

Join multi-award-winning naturalist Gio Fitzpatrick to celebrate the incredible biodiversity and function of our wetlands.

06/09/2025

🚚 Truck traffic on Williamstown Road, Yarraville and Millers Road, Brooklyn is projected to DOUBLE and TRIPLE, respectively, when the West Gate Tunnel Project opens...

💰 For Labor to spend $10 BILLION on this project, allegedly to get trucks off residential streets, and leave so many people worse off - in terms of diesel pollution, noise, safety - is an EPIC FAILURE.

😷 To have 30-metre trucks rattling down suburban streets, with bedrooms just a few metres away, shows a reckless disregard for public safety and health.

🫶 We urge the Victorian Government to do better.

23/07/2025

🏘️ Local voices wanted! A new community project is starting at Braybrook and Maidstone Neighbourhood House to help our neighbourhoods prepare for challenges like power outages, extreme weather, and food security. They’re inviting locals to join a short-term working group to share ideas and help shape real solutions. If you care about our community’s wellbeing, this is a great way to get involved.
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Let’s prepare for the future, together.

Neighbourhood Houses already do amazing work bringing people together and supporting their communities. Resilience In-House is a project designed to build on that strength: helping Houses and their communities prepare for climate challenges, so we can flourish now and ongoing.

We’re inviting locals like you to be part of this because your ideas and local knowledge are invaluable.

Join the Braybrook and Maidstone Neighbourhood House Resilience In-House Working Group

Work with others from your community to shape practical, local solutions. No special skills or experience needed; just a willingness to listen, share, and take action. You’ll help:
Identify what matters most to your community
Co-create an action plan for your Neighbourhood House
Find ways to build on existing work
Track progress and share what works

Why This Matters

We’re all facing bigger challenges. From extreme weather to power outages to food security. But we also know that communities that are connected, prepared and adaptable cope better and recover faster. This project is about making those strengths even stronger, with practical actions that fit your community.

What’s involved?

Through workshops and ongoing engagement, working group members will contribute at up to 6 sessions over 2 months, around 12 hours total. The sessions will run from late October to early December 2025.

Want to know more or get involved?

DM Jodie Louise or Reach out to Braybrook and Maidstone Neighbourhood House manager Viv Conn on (03) 9317-5610 or [email protected], or the Project coordinator Rachel Bucknall on 0435 231 372 or [email protected]

10/05/2025

Happy Mothers Day to all the climate caring Mums, Grandmums and special people in our community.

Thank you for all you do.

23/11/2024

We are so disappointed that the Victorian Government is refusing to install filters on the West Gate Tunnel.

The tunnel's two vents located in - at Whitehall Street and near Fogarty Avenue - will pump toxic truck fumes into the air near homes and sporting fields.

Given the $10 billion price tag of this project (so far), we are surprised the government has failed to take adequate steps to protect people's health.

08/10/2024

Tonight!

27/09/2024

“𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞”: 𝟑 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬

Climate Action Maribyrnong, Brimbank Sustainability and Climate Action, and Parents For Climate West Melbourne, three groups of local community members concerned about climate change - have left a community consultation process with local MP Daniel Mulino in despair following the government’s approval of three thermal coal mine expansions, allowing them to operate for another 30-40 years. https://www.abc.net.au/.../federal-government.../104391416

These extensions will supercharge climate change by locking in approximately 1.5 billion tonnes of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, more than three times Australia’s total annual emissions.

Angela Ashley-Chiew said:

“We joined the climate consultation process with Daniel Mulino in good faith, but it looks a lot like lip service when you see Minister Tanya Plibersek signing off on new coal projects.

“If the Albanese Government is really serious about tackling climate change, it needs to stop approving the main cause of it—the mining and burning of coal, oil, and gas.

Fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for over 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions.

Climate Action Maribyrnong Group, Brimbank Sustainability & Climate Action and Parents For Climate - West Melbourne were invited to have regular meetings about Australia’s progress on climate and environment issues with Daniel Mulino.

“We’ve been pleased to see the Albanese Government’s progress on the adoption of clean solutions to climate, such as renewable energy, but without a commitment to the fast and fair phase out of coal and gas, it’s rearranging deck chairs while the Titanic sinks.

“We really appreciate having an open and straightforward relationship with Daniel Mulino but it feels like a shot in the foot when the government steamrolls those discussions by approving coal and gas developments.”

The federal government says the extensions will secure the jobs of more than 1,800 workers, but the move has angered environmentalists who have described the decision as "the opposite of climate action".