Want to talk about climate with family, friends, or school gates without triggering a tense debate or tumbleweed moment? Join us for a practical, one-hour evening webinar designed for those who want to foster open, unifying conversations.

Guest speaker Helen Fogarty from the Queensland Kids Partnership and with experience with the Frameworks Institute will share simple, high-impact strategies to help you bridge divides, connect over shared values, and invite people into the movement with confidence.

• When: 27 August at 7:30 PM (AEST)
• Where: Online (Zoom link to follow)
• Cost: Free

Equip yourself with some simple tools that work in real life, alongside other parents and people who care. 

Every parent wants the same thing…. a future where their kids have clean air, good jobs, and a community worth growing up in.

Right now the NSW Government is making decisions that will determine whether that future is possible. New coal expansions, A Net Zero Plan being written as we speak and a transition fund for coal communities that could be transformative or another empty promise.

The world is already moving on. Renewable energy is cheaper. Export markets are shifting. The NSW government has a choice: invest in the industries, jobs, and communities our kids will grow up in or stay stuck in the past and leave our kids and coal communities to pay the price.

We know which future we want to build.

We are calling on the NSW Government to:

• Stop approving new coal expansions and extensions
• Set binding emissions targets for the coal sector in the NSW Net Zero Plan
• Properly fund the transition for workers and communities through the Future Jobs and Investment Fund

You pay full price at the pump. Mining giants get billions back.

Every year, Australian mining companies claim $4.5 billion in taxpayer fuel subsidies, nearly half the entire national scheme. Coal mining alone takes $1.4 billion of it! This is public money, handed to some of the most profitable companies in the world, while families pay full price at the pump.

There is a simple fix already gaining momentum inside the government: cap these subsidies at $50 million per company per year. Require the biggest miners to reinvest anything above that cap into clean technology and redirect the savings to what our kids actually need: childcare, schools, healthcare, and cost-of-living relief.

Farmers, tradies, and small businesses receive fuel credits too, and this reform protects every single one of them. The cap only hits the giants at the top. The ones who need it least and claim it most.

It is a fair deal. And our kids deserve it.

To the Hon. Catherine King MP

Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

Dear Minister King,

We write to you as concerned parents, because the evidence is clear: truck pollution is harming our children, and the federal government has the power to act.

New research, authored by leading Australian academics has quantified what communities living on freight corridors have known for years. 

Heavy vehicle exhaust emissions are causing preventable deaths and unnecessary illness. The annual health cost exceeds $6.8 billion - borne by patients, taxpayers, and workers.

Our children are the most vulnerable. They breathe faster. Their bodies are still developing. 

• One in six schools and childcare centres across Australia’s capital cities are close enough to busy roads to raise serious health risks. 
• Nearly 9% of new childhood asthma cases in our region are linked to traffic pollution, and heavy vehicles are responsible for a quarter of that pollution. 
• Pollution at one approved childcare centre was equivalent to children inhaling the smoke from 8.4 cigarettes a day.

This is a national problem. Freight corridors run through suburban streets in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Parents in every capital city raise their kids in neighbourhoods, and send their children to schools where the air they breathe is making them sick and affecting their development.

Minister, this year your government will revise the Heavy Vehicle National Law. We urge you to use this opportunity to protect Australian children. Specifically, we call on you to:

1. Strengthen emissions standards for heavy vehicles. Make CO2 emissions part of our Heavy Vehicle Emissions Standards to accelerate the shift towards zero emissions trucks. 
2. Support truck drivers and small businesses to accelerate the transition. 92% of trucking businesses are small operators. They need help with the upfront costs of switching to zero-emission trucks, and they need regulatory barriers like weight and access limits reformed so that cleaner, heavier electric trucks can operate on our roads. 
3. Protect children from truck pollution now. Establish buffer zones between freight corridors and schools, childcare centres and playgrounds. Fund mitigation in high-risk areas, including green barriers and air filtration systems for schools on freight routes.

We ask you to make children’s health part of the equation when you reform the Heavy Vehicle National Law this year. Our kids cannot wait.

Yours sincerely,

Parents for Climate

On behalf of parents, carers and grandparents across Australia