Update. November 2012
 

New print guide is here!

Our 'Guide to Ethical Supermarket Shopping' is completely revised and updated, with the new branding of 'Shop Ethical!'. This new edition includes new company ownership charts, improved categorisation, new blurbs, and lots of tips for shopping beyond the supermarket.
Ask Santa to slip one into your stocking this Christmas. A great gift to help your friends and relatives avoid the naughty companies and support nice ones ... all year round. This plus other ethical goodies are now available from our online Shop. To help us with distribution, click here.
 

Christmas Shopping - with a conscience...

It's easy to become lost in the busyness, anxiety and the frenzy of over-consumption at Christmas time. How do we reclaim the essence of Christmas? How do we make positive choices that take care of the health of the planet, our community, and ourselves?

Check out our Ethical Christmas Guide. Food, gift and decoration choices, including our favourite ethical gifts ideas!.
 

Imagine a world without factory farming...

The new Animals Australia 'Make it Possible' campaign invites you to join Pat Rafter, Rove McManus, Missy Higgins, Judith Lucy and thousands of others who are taking action to ensure that animals are given a voice.
Watch the video, take the pledge and avoid factory farmed meat. Find free-range meats on Local Harvest. You might want to actively buy fewer animal products, or even go meat-free.

 

Focus on Tax Justice

Worldwide, big businesses are dodging taxes. Tax evasion deprives everyday people of vital services. These funds are needed to pay for education and healthcare. Poorer countries lose three times more money to tax havens than they receive in aid every year.
In Australia in 2011, 71 of the top 100 companies listed on the ASX had subsidiaries in tax haven countries. Google paid just $74,176 in Australian tax in the same year, despite making an estimated $1 billion in revenue from the Australian market. Tax havens force poor people to pay the taxes of the rich. Raise your voice for tax justice and corporate responsibility.

See the videos at
Tackle Tax Havens, and find out more about the situation in Australia at the Tax Justice Network and recent 7.30 report segment. Sign the petition at Micah Challenge: Shine the light on corporate corruption.

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