Immigration detention has a devastating effect on the physical, emotional and psychological development of children and must be stopped. At the end of February 2012, 1,107 children (aged under 18 years) were in immigration detention in Australia. Our global campaign is asking governments to stop detaining children and their families. Since the launch of the campaign in March 2012, we have been dedicating one month to a particular country, during which we focus on local child detention practices. The campaign also aims to trigger public awareness and engagement by asking individuals – 18 and under – and organisations to take action against child immigration detention.

EWB has 10 years experience in creating systemic change through humanitarian engineering. We do this by: working in partnership to address a lack of access to basic human needs such as clean water, sanitation and hygiene, energy, basic infrastructure, waste systems, information communication technology and engineering education; educating and training Australian students, engineers and the wider community on issues including sustainable development, appropriate technology, poverty and the power of humanitarian engineering; and leading a movement of like-minded people with strong values and a passion for humanitarian engineering within Australia and overseas. Humanitarian engineering uses a people centered, strength based approach to improve community health, well being and opportunity. We have projects in Australia and overseas including in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

EDO NSW is a community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law. We help people who want to protect the environment through law. Our core functions are: legal advice and litigation, policy and law reform, public engagement and education.

Each year EDO NSW provides free legal advice to more than 1,000 individuals and community groups across NSW. We also run free legal workshops for local communities. EDO NSW has run a number of landmark legal cases in the courts and undertakes policy and law reform work at both the State and Federal level. EDO NSW also operates an Indigenous Engagement Program, a Scientific Advisory Service, an Outreach Program and anInternational Program providing assistance to legal groups in the south Pacific.

Environment Tasmania is the state's conservation council, dedicated to the protection, conservation and rehabilitation of Tasmania's natural environment. We represent 24 conservation groups in the state and provide a professional voice for Tasmania's conservation movement. We produce research reports on forest conservation and climate, run a marine program and restoration projects in high conservation forests.

For over twenty years, EDO Qld has played a crucial role in helping communities understand and engage with our legal system. As a community legal centre, we support those looking to use the law to protect community health, preserve nature and combat climate change.

We give expert advice to rural and urban communities looking to protect the environment in the public interest via our free legal advice line. We also work hard to educate communities about their rights to access information, challenge risky developments and stand up for our environment. We write factsheets, handbooks and arrange community events to help people understand and use the law to protect what they’re most passionate about. Over the years, we’ve helped farmers, conservationists and community groups to stop the culling of endangered flying foxes, challenge mega dams and mining activities, and helped protect the Great Barrier Reef.

Environs Kimberley or EK is the peak conservation organisation for the Kimberley region, one of the world’s last wilderness areas. Our natural habitats are facing unprecedented threats from too frequent fires, feral animals, weeds, broadscale land-clearing, dams and encroaching industrial development. Native mammals are disappearing. Through its West Kimberley Nature Project, EK is working with Aboriginal ranger groups to better manage the threats to the region. Miners are exploring 25,000 km² for coal, over 120,000 km² for shale gas, that would be extracted by ‘fracking’, and more than 10,000 km² for bauxite. (Sydney’s urban area covers 1687 km²). The region is also facing exploration for oil, iron ore, copper, diamonds, rare earths, lead, zinc and uranium.

Equality Rights Alliance is Australia's largest network of organisations with an interest in advancing women's equality working with 54 members organisations to advocate for gender equality, women’s leadership and policy responses that support women’s diversity. Each year our member's decide on a plan of action. We are currently focusing on housing that meets the needs of women, women's equality in laws and access to justice, health and wellbeing and economic policy and structures.

We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Life on Earth is in crisis: scientists agree we have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown, and we are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making.The time for denial is over. It is time to act. Conventional approaches of voting, lobbying, petitions and protest have failed because powerful political and economic interests prevent change. Our strategy is therefore one of non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience – a rebellion.

We are a network of community organisations, community members and activists working to eliminate the exploitation of sweatshop workers and home-based outworkers in the Australian clothing industry. Many people are aware that clothing and footwear sweatshops overseas are often characterised by unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, rates of pay below a living wage, and extremely long working hours. Yet many Australians are surprised to learn that these conditions also exist in Australia, with an estimated 50-70% of Australian made clothing being outsourced, usually to migrant women working at home or in backyard sweatshops in suburbs around Australian cities.

The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) is Victoria's oldest conservation group. The FNCV was founded in 1880, and continues as a vigorous and practical advocate of conservation and the study of natural history to this day. The Club has close to 1000 members and publishes the bimonthly journal 'The Victorian Naturalist'. Early Club members for two decades successfully worked towards reservation of Wilsons Promontory as a national park. The FNCV continues to thrive to this day. We are a very active club with a diverse calendar of events.
The huge range of interests within the club have seen the development of various Special Interest Groups. Members are welcome to attend activities of any or all of these groups. Visitors are welcomed, but please note a $5 fee may apply to non-members on some group activities (this includes insurance).

FNL is a grassroots organisation currently emerging out of Collingwood/Fitzroy as a part of the 200 + year continuum of the first nations peoples’ struggle for justice, land rights, self-determination/economic independence and freedom in this part of the continent.

The definition of FNL is evolving as the organisation grows and develops. To learn more about what we stand for, where it emerges from politically and historically and the ideas, actions (and people behind them) that inspire, follow the links that are featured throughout our blog, they can begin to give you an insight into where FNL is coming from.

At the Fitzroy Learning Network, we work with the local community to provide training and support services to newly arrived refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to increase opportunities for social, cultural and economic participation. We offer a variety of courses and opportunities such as IT and Technology literacy, English Literacy through nationally recognised training, link up referrals and networks and social activities for the local community.