Labor's First Extinction. Campaign
AU$5,002
of $4,930 targetmths ago
Successful on 16th Jun 2024 at 2:00PM.
Help us stop the travesty of an extinction that’s totally avoidable - yet driven by greed.
YOU DID IT! We reached our target.
THANK YOU for the amazing support.
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"THE CAMPAIGN"
Help keep up the pressure on the Albanese Labor Government calling to STOP industrial fish farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour and protect the future of a unique survivor of the Age of Dinosaurs - the Maugean skate.
The Maugean skate is a 60-million-year-old relic of the dinosaurs and Gondwana and is found only in remote Macquarie Harbour, on Tasmania's West Coast.
Urgent action is needed as less than 1000 Maugean skate remain, with numbers halving between 2014 and 2021!
It has now been 1 whole year since scientists first sounded the alarm that the Maugean skate was one severe weather event away from extinction.
We are shouting this message from a billboard directly opposite Tanya's Sydney office reminding her of
her promise: “No Extinctions on my Watch!”
Right now, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is deliberating on a decision to term the approvals for salmon farming expansion in Macquarie Harbour as a "controlled action" which would give her powers under the EPBC Act to intervene on industry operations in Macquarie Harbour going into the future.
With your help, we will:
- Continue to run our billboard campaign
- Spread this message across Plibersek’s and Albanese’s heartland in Sydney
- Promote our message to the broader NSW public
- Engage more people to call for immediate end to salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour
Atlantic salmon and ocean trout farms are destroying the harbour with pollution and salmonid biomass causing deoxygenation that's sparking a catastrophic collapse in skate numbers. The federal Government's own scientific conservation advice is clear: significantly reduce or remove salmonid farms from the Harbour by summer 2023 - but the Government is now late in taking action!
Don't let it be too late!
What does the industry say? “We won’t lose a single job or a single fish” to save the waterway and the skate.
Australia Institute Pre-election Polling showed 80% of Tasmanian labor voters support or strongly support the Tasmanian Parliamentary Inquiry recommendation 3, "to reduce inshore salmon farming sites with priority given to stopping operations in sensitive, sheltered and biodiverse areas." Federal Labor must know that they have their voter support to make this decision.
Don't let the Maugean skate become the Thylacine of the sea (echoing the tragic loss of the Tasmanian Tiger).
Read the full story here. Internationally acclaimed author, Richard Flanagan’s described this greed-driven tragedy as “Labor’s First Extinction” in the latest issue of The Monthly.
Don’t let this foreign-owned multinational industry that plunders our waters, pays little to no tax and takes its profits offshore, destroy a survivor from the Age of Dinosaurs.
You can find all the scientific evidence you need of this travesty here at NOFF.au
Act Now! Donate Now! Time is running out.
Budget Overview
Where do your dollars go when you support this campaign?
NOFF is a not-for-profit charity with a core of long serving volunteers, maximising every dollar received.
To make a 100% tax deductible donation, select NO REWARD.
You are helping to fund a billboard, poster, lobbying and awareness campaign including;
Printing, installation and hosting of our message $2200
Tee shirts printed for promotion and launch day over the event $940
Video documentation of the action promoting the issue $500
Social media boosting to extending our reach $350
Printing and distributing campaign material about the issue $350
Small contribution toward our campaigner's hours in NSW $300
A battery 'generator' pack enabling us to project film onsite $290
BONUS NEWS!!
NOFF has earned DGR status making donations tax deductible (02/06/24)
Our campaigner Jess Coughlan just presented at the Senate's greenwashing enquiry in Canberra.
She made an excellent case to the government.
Everyone's support is helping to drive our campaign message even further!
STOP PRESS
"Thanks to the amazing pledges so far, we have made the jump to put the billboard in place and it's having an impact!!!
The media is taking up the story, industry is paying attention and Minister Plibersek can't look away.
KEEP UP THE SUPPORT - help us reach our pledge target and keep this campaign alive!
SAVE THE MAUGEAN SKATE
Sincere thanks,
The NOFF Campaign team
Read the NOFF press release HERE and see your pledge in action!
No Reward
I just want to make a donation Here for my love of the Skate!
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Stickers!
We have Save the Skate Bumper stickers so you can take the fight for this amazing creature to the streets. Designed by Jen Cossins at Red Parka
11 chosen / 39 available
Est. delivery is Jun 24
Ghost Patrol Save The Maugean Skate Stickers
Save the Skate before it's too late! Designed by Tasmanian born artist David Booth, aka Ghost Patrol, who's work can be found on the streets worldwide and in Major collections in Australia and beyond.
1 chosen / 19 available
Est. delivery is May 24
Book - The New Fish
The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the consequences we can no longer ignore by Simen Saetre and Kjetil Ostli, is a book by two investigative journalists who over a 5 year investigation took an in-depth look at Norway's role in the global salmon industry. They lend us a world view of farmed salmon, its harmful practices and the invention and promotion of the industries "new fish”, a story that will leave you stunned. The perfect partner to Richard Flanagan's TOXIC.
2 chosen / 8 available
Est. delivery is Jun 24
T-Shirts
The Maugean Skate has been around 60 million years! If urgent action is not taken this unique creature will go extinct. Show your support for protecting the skate and it's habitat with this quality tee designed by Tasmanian artist and writer Jen Cossins. The back hosts an across the shoulder design showing the NOFF logo and "Eating Salmon? Killing Tasmania" in dark orange. ASColour - Classic Tee - Butter Relaxed fit Heavy weight (220gsm) 100% combed cotton Screen printed in Marrickville, NSW
6 chosen / 9 available
Est. delivery is May 24
Book - TOXIC
Booker Prize winning Australian author Richard Flanagan has given us this frank and shocking account of the Atlantic salmon industry and its impact on his home, Tasmania. "Richard Flanagan’s exposé of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing." Penguin Books If you care about what you eat and the environment we all share, this is a must read.
4 chosen / 6 available
Est. delivery is Jun 24
Dine with us! - Cygnet, Tasmania
Enjoy a meal for two with NOFF at the Old Bank Cafe in Cygnet! You and a friend will dine with Peter George (NOFF president) and a NOFF committee member in this great local establishment, getting a closer look at the issues and the people behind this important cause. Peter is a charming and able host being the ABC’S first Middle East correspondent, a foundation reporter with Foreign Correspondent and a Four Corners journalist. Peter truly is a man with a voice for our times. This experience is valid for 12 months and does not include transport. Cygnet is a town in Tasmania’s Huon Valley, about one hours drive south of Hobart.
0 chosen / 1 available
Est. delivery is Jun 25