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Member of the GRANT community have spent less than a week salvaging food and other items from Woolworths and Coles dumpsters, to liberate all of the food and household items that they have (for years) been discarding.GRANT then put these items out on display at a...

Tasmanian community members have staged a vigil at Hobart’s Magistrates Court from 7AM this Monday (5th February) in an emotional plea for justice regarding the 2020 killing of Wadi Wadi and Wamba Wamba man Jari Wise. The action comes after a slew of the city’s...

Members of the Hobart community have sent a message to Hobart City Council by painting ‘Rocks won’t fix homelessness’ and other words on numerous now-moved boulders that were placed under two sequoia trees in St. David’s Park, Hobart. Last week, an individual...

This morning, members of Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) gathered outside the Tasmanian Parliament to call on resources minister Felix Ellis to refrain from approving the imminent lease renewal for Dave Hodgson’s planned coal mine near Fingal, which plans...

Housing activists from Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) have used the final days of Dark Mofo to highlight the impact of short-stay accommodation on Hobart's rental crisis.  Many Airbnb’s are only a few doors down from one another, showing the...

Today activists from the Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) have staged a protest at the office of Federal Housing Minister and Labor Member for Franklin Julie Collins about the need to address the rental crisis in Tasmania. The group, many of whom have at...

Community members will stage a presence outside Hobart's Supreme Court from 9.30AM this morning, 4th May in an emotional plea for justice regarding the 2020 murder of Huonville man Jari Wise.  The gathering will demand that Tasmania's judicial system stands to...

Today a number of local members from the Hobart community held a peaceful demonstration calling on the Albanese government to put more funding into the critically under-resourced healthcare and housing sectors in Tasmania rather than wasting it on a new stadium that...

Hundreds of Hobartians will join together this Saturday from 10am to 5pm, to celebrate their right to protest on the lawns of Parliament House, as an act of community objection to the latest iteration of Tasmania’s anti-protest laws. The ‘Protestival’ has been...

Dozens of fed-up citizens have staged guerrilla exhibitions throughout Hobart's Dark Mofo festival in protest of the Tasmanian government’s proposed anti-protest laws. The impromptu artists, who organized the protest as Grassroots Action Network Tasmania, stood...

Members of Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) have taken to Senator Duniam’s office today to express their concern over the seismic testing off Tasmania’s North West Coast, as well as plans for further exploratory gas drilling around King Island in 2023....

Around fifteen community members belonging to Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) have again disrupted logging operations in the Styx Valley near Westerway on Thursday. The group entered the coup around 8:30 this morning and remain there in an attempt to stop...

More than 20 community members belonging to Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) have this morning disrupted the commencement of works in a Styx Valley logging operation. The group, who remain in the newly active coupe since walking on at 8AM in a show of...

Logging of valuable Swift Parrot habitat throughout the southern forests has been halted for the second time this week by a complex direct action operation involving The Wilderness Society’s Campaign Manager, Tom Allen. Two forest defenders, including The Wilderness...

Community groups Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) and Otway Climate Emergency Action Network (OCEAN) have stopped a seismic testing vessel leaving Geelong Port by attaching themselves to the vessel and paddling out around it with dolphins. It is the third...

A group of concerned community members in kayaks are currently surrounding a Ta Ann chartered export ship at Hobart's Wharf, with two climate advocates locked on to the vessel's railings. Led by local organising collective Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT),...

A group of protestors from Grassroots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT) and Tasmanian Alliance for Marine Protection (TAMP) today held a peaceful protest outside of The Salmon Shop in Salamanca Square, a stockist of Tassal’s Tasmanian Salmon. The community members...

After a short campaign, GRANT community breathes a sigh of relief as the anti-protest bill was voted down 8-6 in the legislative council (upper house) on Thursday 25th March. GRANT's vigil attracted 200-300 people which sent a strong message to politicians and...