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input to national decision making forums through being involved in their local group, who then send delegates to national meetings where decisions are taken. Finances From the early 1980s FoEA relied on a single administrative grant from the Federal Government for its funding. The loss of this allocation in 1996 following the election of the Coalition Government forced a long-overdue diversification of funding sources, and FoE’s revenue is now based on donations, some project funding, an annual appeal and fundraising. ................................................................................................................................................................................................... FoE INTERNATIONAL FoE International (FoEI) was formed in Sweden in 1971, when groups from France, Great Britain, Sweden and the USA met as FoEI for the first time. Throughout the 1970s, FoEI continued to grow and when FoE Australia (FoEA) was established in 1974 it was accepted into the FoEI network in the same year. In the early 1980s the international Federation started to gain members in Southern countries (notably West Africa, Latin America and Asia). As more groups from Southern countries joined, the politics and emphasis of FoEI were slowly transformed away from a Northern or ‘First world’ perspective to a more global view. In 1982, FoE activists established the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), building on the work of FoE groups in Malaysia, Brazil and the United States. Today, PAN links 300 groups in around 50 countries to oppose the misuse of pesticides and genetic engineering. Destruction of tropical forests and the subsequent impacts on those Indigenous communities reliant on them became a central issue with the creation of a FoEI Forest campaign in 1985. FoEI holds bi-annual meetings, each of which is hosted by a different member group. The first FoEI meeting held in a Southern country was in Malaysia in 1986. In late 1998, FoEA hosted the FoE 30 Years 130
FoE International meeting in Melbourne, bringing a diverse cross section of the global network to the country for the first time. FoE was one of the first environmental networks to become active in Eastern Europe. Its first member group in the East was Poland’s Polski Klub Ekologiczny, which joined FoEI in 1985. In the mid and later part of the 1990s, FoE grew rapidly throughout Latin America and in 2004 is now building its membership base throughout Asia. FoEI is currently the largest grassroots environment NGO Federation in the world with member groups in 68 countries. Around half of these are in the ‘South’ or majority world (formerly called the third world). FoEI has a democratic and decentralised structure, which is unique amongst the large international environmental groups, and the network embraces social as well as nature conservation issues. FoE represents the political reality of life in the South rather than just quality of life and biodiversity issues in the ‘developed’ world. An external review of FoEI in 1998 identified three ................................................................................................................................................................................................... FoE International meeting, Quito, Ecuador, 1999. ‘streams’ of thought within the Federation: nature conservation; eco-efficiency; and environmental justice. Recent years have seen a clear shift towards this third approach, with a growing emphasis on a ‘social ecology’ perspective. Because of its political view, FoEI does not establish offices in countries in order to expand its network. Instead it seeks existing partners who meet certain criteria in those countries where there is currently no FoE member group. All of FoEI’s 68 member groups have been established locally rather than simply being a branch or office established by an external organisation. As a result, the Federation is remarkably diverse. To be eligible to join FoEI, a potential group must be a national group (only one member is allowed per country); be working on the key environmental issues in that country; have democratic, nonracist and non-sexist structures; and be independent from political parties and other affiliations. The political structure of FoEI is based on democratic principles. All national groups FoE 30 Years 131
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Over thirty years, FoE has develope
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decades. In Australia, FoE is commi
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This group acted as an inspiration
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In the 1970s, a handful of key issu
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In the mid ‘70s I was studying en
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In 1976, there was a strong campaig
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egan to jostle for access to Antarc
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Keith Suter The future is never as
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