{"id":80974,"date":"2025-09-19T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketforces.org.au\/?p=80974"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:23:15","slug":"hesta-day-of-action-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketforces.org.au\/hesta-day-of-action-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Health workers and super fund members rally, demanding HESTA rejects new fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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HESTA felt the heat last week as members, health workers and concerned community members rallied outside the super fund\u2019s Melbourne office, demanding greater action on climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our communities are facing increasing bushfires, floods and heatwaves and the need for bold climate action has never been more urgent. Just this week, the Australian Government released its long-awaited national climate risk assessment, which tells a horrifying story<\/a> about the kind of future Australians could face unless we drastically cut climate pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme weather events fuelled by pollution from burning coal, oil and gas pose an ever growing threat to the health of communities in Australia and all over the world. As the super fund for the health and community services sectors, many of HESTA\u2019s members are on the frontlines of climate disasters and these members are increasingly speaking out<\/a> about their experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, HESTA has stalled on climate action in recent years. After taking the positive step of putting<\/a> Australia\u2019s two largest oil and gas companies Santos and Woodside on notice in 2022, the fund has since failed to take effective action to rein in their polluting oil and gas expansion plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, after HESTA asked Santos and Woodside to demonstrate how their plans to expand oil and gas align with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement \u2013 which climate science<\/a> tells us is an impossible expectation \u2013 both companies have responded by doubling down on fossil fuel expansion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why a growing number of HESTA members are taking action, demanding their fund stops greenwashing and starts taking effective action to end new fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HESTA must stop ignoring members’ concerns and take a clear stance against new fossil fuel developments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take action<\/strong> \u2013 tell HESTA to stand up for its members and say no to new fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tell HESTA to say no to new fossil fuels.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n