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The Advocacy Research Network offers free research support to movement groups across Oceania by a team of skilled volunteers. We do the research that helps movements win. advocacyresearch.org

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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 6h
Which online campaigns actually win a concession? A study of 20 protest campaigns in Reddit gaming communities, 312,816 comments, found the strongest pattern was shared group anger plus activity spread widely, not held by a few heavy posters. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Digital Civic Activism and Configurations of Social-Identity Factors: Protest Campaigns in Gaming Communities on Reddit
This study examines the conditions associated with successful digital protest campaigns in online video-game consumer communities. The theoretical framework combines the Social Identity Model of Colle...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
$36 billion lost gambling in a year, and the de facto national regulator is a Northern Territory body with no full time staff. @australiainstitute.org.au keep finding the gaps nobody is meant to look at. bsky.app/profile/aust...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Broad coalitions bring numbers and an internal bill. Six months after Turkey's 2023 elections, a survey of 1,054 opposition voters found nearly two thirds blamed the opposition itself, citing infighting and the ideological width of the alliance. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Do Voters Blame the Opposition for Losing in Electoral Autocracies? Evidence from Turkey
How do voters in autocracies evaluate opposition performance after defeat? We study this question with an exploratory online survey of 1054 opposition voters six months after Turkey's 2023 presidentia...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Get along the coast to Pūkorokoro Miranda on 4 October for the Shorebird Centre's Open Day. See the migratory birds that fly from the Arctic to Aotearoa each year and find out what it takes to keep their wetland habitat protected. www.shorebirds.org.nz
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Welcome to the Shorebird Centre - Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre
The best views of shorebirds in Aotearoa New Zealand. Plan your visit at high tide and enjoy everything the Shorebird Centre has to offer.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One for whoever keeps the site alive. A Spanish feminist group's digital archive stayed campaign ready only because volunteers kept tagging, fixing links, saving screenshots and migrating files. The study calls that persistence organising work. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@knitnannassyd.bsky.social keep publishing a good news roundup, this week on what happens when a wind farm is decommissioned. Small groups keeping a running record of wins is underrated movement infrastructure.https://knittingnannas.org/2026/09/15/news-14-sep-2026/
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reporter @anthonyklan.bsky.social has traced a web of sham social media news pages quietly laundering praise for mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. Useful reading on the information environment campaigners work in. theklaxon.com.au/sham-hanson-...
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Sham Hanson "news" sites push Rinehart propaganda - The Klaxon
Bogus social media “news” pages aggressively spreading Pauline Hanson propaganda are lavishing praise on her multi-billionaire bankroller Gina Rinehart.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Submissions on Australia's main industrial pollution law close midnight this Friday. @bushfiresurvivors.bsky.social have done the hard part and spelled out exactly what to ask for, so this one genuinely takes minutes. bsky.app/profile/bush...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When a government passes an anti-NGO law, the money shifts too. A new open access chapter finds bilateral aid often drops after those laws while multilateral aid holds steady, and groups adapt by widening their funding base. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We're thrilled to see the issue of fossil fuel companies influencing children being taken up by @advocacyresearch.bsky.social On this website can dive deep into the #marketing and #sponsorship programs targeting kids, and report your own examples. fossilfreeclassrooms.org
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Fossil Fuel Influence in Australian Classrooms
A public record of fossil fuel company programs, sponsorships and materials reaching Australian children.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How does the radical right build a local base? A new review names three mechanisms: services that make it read as a community provider, sustained visible branches and candidates, and cultural embedding. Organisers will know all three. doi.org/10.3389/fpos...
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Frontiers | The radical right’s territorial legitimacy
How does the radical right build legitimacy at the grassroots level? This article synthesizes recent scholarship on the local strategies through which radica...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deloitte has picked up a $2.1m advisory contract with Australia's illicit tobacco commissioner, despite a decades long relationship with the tobacco industry. Reported by @roycerk2.bsky.social. Who advises the regulator matters. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-govern...
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The government just gave Deloitte $2.1m to help with tobacco crackdown, despite …
… the consulting firm’s decades-long history of advising the tobacco industry.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Protest does not thin out in summer because of the heat. A new preprint using 984,026 ACLED demonstrations across 159 countries and 28 years finds each hemisphere hits its annual low in its own summer, tracking school holidays, not temperature. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Environment Activism Research @enviroactivism.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Decades of BP branding on a science museum, finally over. Small win, but the sponsorship deals are where a lot of the legitimacy comes from. bsky.app/profile/jam... Check out our Australian database of fossil fuel influence at www.fossilfreeclassr...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Heathrow's third runway is back on the table and @friends-earth.bsky.social puts the choice plainly. Take the climate targets seriously, or wave the expansion through. A clean frame for anyone campaigning on aviation. bsky.app/profile/frie...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If your campaign leans on police recorded data, read this. A Chicago preprint finds women rose from about one in ten shooting victims in the early 2010s to about one in six after 2022. County death records, which never pass a police station, agree. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Does a big turnout actually change minds? A new preprint on the 2017 Women's March finds that where local crowds were bigger, Republican women's disapproval of Trump rose and Republican women and men were more likely to vote Democrat in 2018. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fifteen Minneapolis organisers have been singled out for resisting ICE, and the case carries sweeping implications for the freedom to protest. @wagingnonviolence.org on how supporters are fighting back. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/defe...
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The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15
In a case with sweeping implications, supporters are fighting hard to defend the Minneapolis organizers singled out for resisting ICE.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Every oat milk carton is about to carry a climate message. Oatly is printing the finding that a global supermajority of people want stronger climate action straight onto the packaging. @coveringclimatenow.org has the story. bsky.app/profile/cove...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Everyone says the internet made movements leaderless. A study of campaigns from 1791 to 2019 finds only about half this century lack leaders, and it is student turnout and thin demands like democracy and rights that predict it, not technology. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This story from @roycerk2.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social is absolutely bananas drilled.media/news/new-zea...
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New Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate Change
Borrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Australia approved one of the world's biggest gas projects. It's now in the federal court, testing whether environment law can handle climate. @ausconservation.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court
Albanese government’s approval of North West Shelf gas extension being challenged by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock Art
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Legal pressure on platforms has a measurable chill. A study of 700 Turkish accounts and 7 million posts finds that after the 2020 social media law, users who had publicly criticised it posted 15 to 20% less, and engagement with them fell sharply. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Framing is a campaign tool and this is a clean example of it. @greenpeace.org swapping "data centre" for "pollution centre" does more work in three words than a page of explanation would. bsky.app/profile/gree...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@desmog.com has dug up a 1966 warning to Shell that burning fossil fuels was likely changing the climate. Shell kept it quiet, then funded denial. Useful documentary evidence for anyone building a corporate accountability case. buff.ly/WoS1Cav
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The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A study across the US, Poland and the Netherlands finds citizens mostly punish leaders who break democratic rules, even their own side's. Which transgressions people tolerate, including curbs on protest rights, varies sharply by country. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Worth a read from @wagingnonviolence.org: three emerging feminist leaders on what real climate action looks like when youth, women and Indigenous voices are actually centred, not consulted after the fact. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/07/indi...
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Indigenous women already have the climate solutions
Three emerging feminist leaders have a vision for real climate action — and it starts with centering the voices of youth, women and Indigenous people.
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As the March 2027 election draws near, sitting days are limited, but with a bit of Nanna-like energy and commitment, the NSW government's promises could be kept! knittingnannas.org/2026/08/11/n...
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Nanna News 10 Aug 2026
Nannas welcomed NSW pollies back to parliament with a new banner and street theatre, joined a rally against coal expansions and asked people to sign a make polluters pay petition.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New research: excessive, military style crackdowns on protest are linked to more terrorism afterwards, not less. A global 2018-21 study finds proportionate, police-led responses hold up far better as deterrence. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A win worth amplifying: some of the world's biggest pension funds have backed @marketforces.org.au's shareholder resolution pushing Macquarie to come clean on whether its oil and gas financing squares with the Paris goals. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@australiainstitute.org.au is running a national push for a 25% gas export tax, framed sharply: we subsidise fossil fuel giants while charging students a fortune for uni. A concrete campaign ask worth pointing followers to. gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au
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A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax
Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Worth knowing before your next "consultation": researchers studied China's Shenzhen Blueway project and found a formal public process paired with legal, bureaucratic pressure to co-opt NGOs, limit transparency and brand dissent a security threat. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Great site for searching lobbying, donation, and other influence channels in Australia
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Amnesty is tracking this closely and organisers should be too: a communications blackout in Pakistan following reports of lethal force against protesters during elections.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good news for anyone sick of chasing big donors: new US research finds voters prefer candidates who lean on small donations, across parties, primaries and general elections, even though pundits paint those candidates as outsiders. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Receipts worth keeping: new Oxford research shows Big Oil knew since the 1980s its products would "decimate global coral reefs", while acidification and mass bleaching keep hitting reefs today. theconfluence.news/p/big-oil-kn...
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Big Oil knew it was destroying coral reefs
Fossil fuel companies knew since at least the 1980s that their products would decimate coral reefs, new research shows.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A win worth amplifying: some of the world's biggest pension funds have backed @marketforces.org.au's shareholder resolution pushing Macquarie to come clean on whether its oil and gas financing squares with the Paris goals. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New research worth taking into your organising: extreme weather can spark climate action, but where the local economy leans on fossil fuels, that anger stalls. Those industries cushion communities from climate costs, so it rarely turns into mobilisation. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Environment Activism Research @enviroactivism.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Where is the Oceanian environmental movement showing up this week? Now you can see for yourself. Our new Events page maps climate, conservation and environmental events right across Oceania. www.theenvironmental...
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Environment Activism Research @enviroactivism.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
In 1971, a handful of Queenslanders gathered in a Noosa living room to fight sandmining on the world's largest sand island. Six years later they had stopped the miners and set K'gari on the path to World Heritage listing. Check out number 3 case study in our series here.
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K'gari: Now a place for all to enjoy
How a handful of Queenslanders stopped American sandminers and put the world's largest sand island on the path to World Heritage listing.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Housing crisis hits hard: Salvation Army's 2025 research shows 71% of Aussies identify housing as their top community concern. Tenants Victoria and housing advocates are fighting for renters' rights. Movement groups need quality research to tackle this crisis effectively! 🏠 tenantsvic.org.au/
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Home - Tenants Victoria
We aim to inform and educate renters about their rights, improve renting conditions, improve the status of renters, and represent the collective interests of renters in law and policy making.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Thousands marched for Indigenous justice across Australia on successive Invasion Days. ANTAR continues advocating for First Nations rights, justice & respect since 1997. Evidence-based advocacy is driving real change for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities. antar.org.au
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ANTAR — Justice, Rights & Respect for Australia's First Nations Peoples
ANTAR is a national advocacy organisation working for justice, rights and respect for Australia’s First Nations Peoples.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Australia remains the only Western democracy without a national Human Rights Act! The Human Rights Law Centre leads the campaign with 130+ civil society orgs backing them. Research shows this gap leaves vulnerable communities unprotected. Time for change! www.hrlc.org.au/proj...
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Campaign for a national Human Rights Act - Human Rights Law Centre
Join the Human Rights Law Centre’s national campaign to create an Australian Human Rights Act to ensure human rights are properly protected in law at the national level.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Australia's democracy is at a crossroads! The Australia Institute reveals big money in politics needs reform, while The Australian Democracy Network shows how communities can fight for fairer elections. Local advocacy groups need strong research to drive democratic change. australiainstitute.o...
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Democracy & Accountability - The Australia Institute
All around the world democratic norms are under threat. While the trends are different, here in Australia democratic accountability standards are also under pressure. It is perfectly legal for political parties and candidates to lie in political advertising. Our national broadcaster, the ABC, and the Auditor General responsible for investigating misuse of public funds have been starved of funds.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
ARN believes every advocacy group deserves quality research support! Whether you need campaign analysis, policy research, or community data - our volunteer researchers are ready to help Oceanian movement groups create the change they want to see. Check out advocacyresearch.org today. 🔍
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Climate Action Network Australia unites 160+ nonprofits advocating for better climate solutions. CANA shows the power of collaborative research and shared advocacy strategies. Your group could benefit from similar evidence-based approaches - ARN can help you get there! www.cana.net.au/
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Fresh from The Salvation Army's Social Justice Stocktake 2025: almost 16,000 Aussies surveyed showed surprising consensus on top community issues. Unlike 2021's sense of helplessness, there's now more hope for change. Research reveals what communities really need! www.salvationarmy.or...
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Social Justice Stocktake 2025
Social Justice Stocktake in Australia is about capturing the social injustices affecting people in their local communities and empowering them to take action.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Justice & Equity Centre's 2025 vision includes raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 in NSW. Evidence-based advocacy at work. Their 'Raise the Age NSW' campaign shows how research can drive policy change. Need research support for your justice campaign? jec.org.au/focus-are...
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Raise the Age - Justice and Equity Centre
The Justice and Equity Centre is leading the NSW campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Did you know climate advocacy in Australia is achieving real wins? The environmental movement is successfully protecting precious environments and driving climate action. Groups ARE making big impacts - let ARN help research your next campaign strategy! 🌱www.acf.org.au/about...
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Our wins
For more than 50 years, we've advocated against pollution and destruction – and for our natural world.
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Advocacy Research Network @advocacyresearch.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
National Volunteer Week's 2025 (19-25 May) theme was 'Connecting Communities'! 🤝 Over 475,000 Aussies volunteer for environmental orgs, but 23% of non-volunteers want to get involved. Research shows volunteering creates lasting relationships that strengthen communities. www.volunteeringaust...
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National Volunteer Week - Volunteering Australia
National Volunteer Week is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering and will be next held on 19-25 May 2025. This special event highlights the
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