Meet regularly, determine your priorities, and reach out to PAA – we can connect you with friends from around Australia to share ideas and strategies.

Organise a meeting with schools in your area, and get them to protect children by going spray-free.

See this resource from Pesticide Action Network UK on how to campaign for your school to go spray-free:
- https://issuu.com/pan-uk/docs/pesticide-free_schools_policy
Pesticides are a violation of the Human Rights of the Child, as pesticides effect children more than adults during their critical stages of development.
Schools near agricultural fields may get spray-drift into the school grounds; neighbouring farmers should not be spraying near schools.
Ask your school to do projects into benefits of non-chemical gardening – looking at links with climate change, protecting biodiversity, health, children’s rights etc.
Encourage your school to cater using organic, healthy and pesticide free suppliers

Organise a petition in your local council, advocating for pesticide-free public spaces.

Call your Federal MP and vocalise concerns about pesticides, food residues, and the APVMA.

Australia the only country in the OECD with a federal regulator funded by industry, for industry.
APVMA needs total reform, needs to be funded by taxpayers and needs to be working in the interests of our health and environment rather than trade and industry profit incentive.
Australia needs the hazard-based, precautionary principle central to its decision making.
Organic produce should be taxpayer subsidised to the same degree as non-organic produce.

Contact your water authority and ask them for the levels of pesticide pollution in your drinking water, rivers, lakes, and other sampling sites.

Given pesticide contamination of our water supplies, please consider buying a filter for your drinking water.

Support locally grown organic, pesticide-free produce. Eat as much organic as you can.

Call and email the following Cancer bodies to ask them to acknowledge pesticides as a contributor to cancer, as other international cancer bodies have done:

Breast Cancer Network Australia
Cancer Council of Australia and in your state/territory
Leukaemia Foundation (ask them to remove their glyphosate position paper)
Lymphoma Australia

Call and email your local supermarkets and greengrocers, and ask them to:

Stop using pollinator-killing neonicotinoids and other highly bee-toxic pesticides in their supply chains
List the pesticides used on their vegetables and fruit
Stop selling harmful garden pesticides

Speak to your local golf course / sports club about going pesticide-free.

Here are some examples of golf courses in Canada going pesticide-free
Golf courses have been toxic for a long time, even facing EPA investigation

Bunnings Warehouse are profiting from selling pollinator-killing pesticides

Bunnings and other retailers are profiting from killing of our pollinators, harming our biodiversity and our health.
Speak to your local Bunnings or retail store about the ethics of what they’re doing and write to the store manager.