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2015 National Air Pollution Summit

October 26, 2015

Environmental Justice Australia will be holding its 2015 National Air Pollution Summit in Melbourne on Saturday 14th November. MTAG will be speaking alongside Senator Richard Di Natale and countless air pollution campaigners and health experts from across Australia.  We will be sharing experiences and campaign strategies as well as plan a collaborative approach to achieving
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MTAG presents at the Inquiry into the Proposed Lease of the Port of Melbourne

October 15, 2015

  In late September MTAG’s Martin Wurt and Narelle Wilson gave evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Proposed Lease of the Port of Melbourne. Unfortunately there were some fairly major technical issues with the video and PowerPoint presentation. Despite this and some tricky questions from the committee, MTAG managed to clearly convey the severity of
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MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

October 8, 2015

Transurban Western Distributor Information Session – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! Transurban has re-designed the proposed Western Distributor’s planned freeway tunnel under Yarraville. The entrance is now STARTING in Yarraville and NOT in the existing freeway footprint as first promised.The first design had broad community support, this doesn’t. We urgently need a solution to our truck
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MTAG’s statement on the Western Distributor

October 3, 2015

    MTAG met with representatives of Transurban on 29 September, for the purpose of a briefing on the second stage of the Western Distributor proposal.We now have a better idea of some aspects of the proposal – including their rationale for shifting the southern portal to the new location of the northern edge of
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