Rising Tide wins Peter Rawlinson Award!

Rising Tide, the Newcastle-based activist group, has won this year's Peter Rawlinson Award after 12 months of tireless and fearless action drawing attention to the looming climate crisis.

Rising Tide is a small, committed group of volunteers that has consistently punched above its weight since its inception six years ago.

In 2009, Rising Tide generated national media coverage when its activists abseiled down the front of Parliament House on Federal Budget day with a banner that read 'Carbon Budget Blowout', convened a huge summit for community climate action groups, stopped work at a notorious aluminium smelter for several hours with a non-violent protest, organised a peaceful sit-in at Parliament House a week before the Copenhagen climate talks and staged a day-long blockade of the rail line into the world's biggest coal port at Newcastle.

ACF's annual Peter Rawlinson Award acknowledges the outstanding voluntary contribution of an individual or group to conservation.