CHARITY
Information on the causes Toni supports |
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Actor Toni Collette shows her support for Greenpeace by joining the City to Surf team, which
took part in the Sydney fun run August 8, 2004.
"Greenpeace do an important job in protecting our environment. I’d urge everyone to get out
there and do something simple and enjoyable for the planet," she said.
Ms Collette joined the team of other famous faces such as Lonely Planet travel publishing
co-founder Tony Wheeler, and members of ABC TV series The Election Chaser and CNNNN, Julian
Morrow and Chas Licciardello.
Greenpeace Australia
Press release: Toni Collette joins "City to Surf" team
Article on the "City to Surf" run with photos
Article by AAP: Star's simple start to City to Surf
In June 2005, Toni Collette has sent a letter to Australian Prime Minister John Howard calling for an end to
the horrific practices of mulesing (live flaying) and live sheep export. "Mulesing is an
unimaginably cruel procedure," writes Collette. "The recent promise to stop mulesing by 2010
is unacceptable, since more humane alternatives to prevent flystrike are available now."
Toni goes on to urge the prime minister to stop the live export of sheep who are no longer
profitable to the Australian merino wool industry. The live-export "death ships" transport
more that 6 million sheep to the Middle East and North Africa every year. Conditions on these
ships are unimaginably bleak—thousands die en route from disease and starvation, and those who
survive the journey have their throats slit while they are still conscious. Toni writes, "I am
sure that you do not want Australia to be associated with the image of starving, thirsty, and
sick sheep who are sentenced to a painful death on foreign soil."
Read Toni Collette's letter to Prime Minister Howard
Save the Sheep Official Website
Article: Collette joins PETA's wool campaign
| AFC BIG SCREEN - TOURING AUSTRALIAN FILMS |
Big Screen is a travelling film festival - an AFC initiative that takes a selection of contemporary and archival films, documentaries and shorts to remote, regional and rural communities around Australia.
Big Screen is supported by Toni Collette, her colleagues Bryan Brown, David Wenham, Sam Worthington and Sophie Lee,
as well as many beloved Australian personalities. "The Boys", the provocative thriller starring Collette
and Wenham, is among the Big Screen film presentations.
AFC Big Screen Official Website
Have a look at the 2005 Big Screen patrons
| SAVE NINGALOO REEF CAMPAIGN |
The Ningaloo is a 280 km long 'fringing' coral reef skirting the Cape Range karst limestone peninsular, mid way up the West Australian coastline, 1200km north of Perth. Ningaloo Reef is the longest western fringing coral reef and one of the last healthy major coral reef systems in the world.
Its region is so unique in its profound biodiversity that it easily qualifies for
World Heritage Listing. This has not yet happened, however the Western Australian governement
is currently preparing a nomination. Toni joins the support with speaking out public about
saving the Ningaloo and there has also been a cover story in the Australia's "West Magazine" in 2002.
Save Ningaloo.org Official Website
Article on the Ningaloo reef by "The Bulletin"
