I have a confession to make… forty years ago, I left the small central Gippsland town of Trafalgar where I grew up, for university and the bright lights of Melbourne. In the intervening years, I’ve lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Boston and Washington DC, with regular international holidays to almost all […]
We are grandparents living in Tasmania with children and grandchildren living on mainland Australia. We have both spent innumerable hours travelling by plane over our vast continent primarily for work but also for pleasure. In recent year we have come to recognise that while flying is promoted as an extremely […]
#SavePeopleNotPlanes: Open letter demands that workers and the climate are put first 6 April 2020 Today, 250 organisations from 25 countries published an open letter directed to governments, urging them to resist any aviation lobby attempts to rush into unfair bailouts of the industry. Instead, governments are implored to use […]
Flight Free Australia (FFA) calls for the federal government to reject the reported requests by commercial aviation for billion dollar loans on the back of ongoing revenue losses, due to cancellations because flights spread the corona virus. FFA asked the government to remember that, instead of limiting flights as much […]