The Australian Psychedelic Society (APS) seeks to empower the Australia’s psychedelic community to benefit, enjoy and contribute to their culture in a safe and supportive environment. A variety of activities are coordinated throughout the year, which focus on the following areas.

Delivering a range of educational and cultural events so the psychedelic community can connect and create greater cohesion from which social change can arise.

Advocating for the interests of the psychedelic community, APS provides an informed and balanced voice in political and social forums. Submissions to Government inquiries address issues with legislation and policy based on best practice, human rights and harm reduction.

Facilitating the creation and delivery of educational resources focusing on reducing harms, maximising benefits and promoting best practice.

Seeking to reduce the stigma associated with psychedelics by educating the broader community based on evidence, including peer reviewed research.

The APS website and social media sites provide a range of information on local psychedelic events, cutting edge research, along with articles relating to best practice and the therapeutic benefit of psychedelics.

Australian Wildlife Protection Council established the National Kangaroo Campaign in 1992 which has grown to incorporate the wider international community. AWPC coordinates many campaigns to bring an end to the commercial kangaroo killing industry. Kangaroos are under enormous pressure from both the commercial kangaroo industry and the rural sector and they need as much support as they can get. AWPC also campaigns for koalas, dingos, possums and Tasmania devils.

Avaaz is only five years old but has exploded to become the globe's largest and most powerful online activist network with over 36 million members last check. Avaaz empowers people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues, from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change. The Avaaz model of internet organising allows thousands of individual efforts, however small, to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force. The Avaaz community campaigns in 15 languages, served by a core team on 6 continents and thousands of volunteers. Avaaz creates change through petitions, funding media campaigns and direct actions, emailing, calling and lobbying governments, and organising "offline" protests and events.

Ballarat Animal Advocates Association campaigns to enhance and protect the welfare of animals in the Ballarat region by using various peaceful means. This includes raising awareness in schools, businesses, community groups and government bodies in the Ballarat region; alert the public to local maltreatment; and assisting state, national and international animal protection groups in their campaigns to end all animal exploitation, cruelty, pain, suffering, unnecessary confinement and stress.

BCCAG’S VISION IS ‘A SAFE CLIMATE FOR ALL’.
We are a non-profit community organisation that works to reduce the impact of climate change and promote sustainability. We do that by creating and delivering information, facilitating action and influencing decision-makers. We call for strong leadership and decisive action to meet Australia’s new commitments under the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
We are a group that operates primarily within the municipality of Bayside, Victoria, Australia, but also become engaged in activities that have a wider focus.

Biomassacre is a campaign site to stop the logging industry transitioning into burning forests for fuel when the woodchips industry stalls. The logging, woodchipping and energy industries are poised to unleash plans to use native forests to produce electricity, and to convert forests into liquid bio-fuels. We can’t afford to trash our forests for bioenergy. Our precious forests must be protected for wildlife, water and the air we breathe. Biomassacre is raising awareness of this issue and making sure the label "renewable energy" is not applied to forest destruction.

Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to Australia’s ongoing efforts to block action on the climate and ecological crisis. Blockade Australia is a call to action in itself. It is an ask that people come and participate in resistance by physically blockading Australia’s critical infrastructure.

The network aims to help build a political movement that can physically resist Australia’s planet destroying operations with disruptive and targeted action that shuts down the everyday functions of this destructive machine.

We do not believe that the Australian system is broken and can therefore be repaired. We are operating from an understanding that the system was established to extract value from this continent and disregard the damage caused to people, the environment and the climate.

Bridging the Divide promotes better understanding, clearer communication, and stronger social ties between urban-based and regional / rural-based Australians. We aim to establish and maintain long-term communication and support networks linking rural-, regional- and urban-based Australians around issues of health and social justice, as we believe that that bridging the urban-rural divide at grassroots level is an urgent requirement for a sustainable Australia. Our activities include fact-finding city-country bus tours and networking events; facilitation of independent health and environmental monitoring in rural and regional areas; and rban-rural communication and social activities.

Tecoma (Pop. 2189) is a peaceful village in the Dandenong Ranges. McDonalds lodged a planning application which met with over 1,100 objections (more than 50% of the entire population of the township) relating to traffic, litter, noise and local amenity issues. The Shire of Yarra Ranges council agreed and UNANIMOUSLY rejected the proposal. McDonalds took the application to VCAT. Despite over 300 local residents putting forward detailed objections, VCAT saw in McDonalds favour and granted them planning permission for a 24 hour drive through ‘restaurant’. The Dandenong Ranges are famed throughout Australia, and are a popular weekend destination for many Melbournites. Tourists visit these hills to experience life away from suburbia, away from mass development, noise and pollution. They often drive up for the day and enjoy the bush, the scenery, the clean air, and the charming locals.

CAFNEC acts as conservation council for the region from Cardwell north to Torres Strait and from the east coast to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics World Heritage Areas are included. Collaboration with other conservation organisations on environmental issues of state and national importance has become increasingly important. Some of our main functions include: campaigning for the FNQ environment – everything from grass roots activism to political lobbying at a local, State and Federal level; representing environmental interests in the Far North region to tourism, agricultural/industry; sponsoring grants for projects and research on matters relating to the region’s environment; and maintaining an easily accessible community library and resource centre with materials relating to environmental issues.

Carbon Arts is an arts organisation that is working to facilitate an increased role for artists in generating awareness and action on climate change. Straddling the arts, economics, science, and technology, our projects foster innovation and dialogue between disciplines and the public as a means to address contemporary environmental challenges. We do this through targeted and timely public art commissions, events, workshops, exhibitions and research.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) aims to be the world's leading research centre for solving environmental problems and for evaluating the outcomes of environmental actions. We will benefit environmental science, policy and management across Australia and around the world by solving complex problems of environmental management and monitoring in a rapidly changing and uncertain world. CEED commenced in 2011 with funding from the Australian Research Council. The need for the Centre is based on the premise that in Australia and around the world, biodiversity and environmental problems have not been property formulated and that mistakes have been made in allocating scarce resources.