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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

I wish reforms were based on what's actually required to remedy problems, rather than "deals"

@euanritchie.bsky.social, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & I reiterate what's required in EPBC reforms to protect Australia's precious natural heritage & to address our intertwined climate & nature crises

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 4d

DEWR sought an assurance report on the Targeted Compliance Framework. They got it. It told them clearly that the TCF could NOT be assured. And yet the government continues to administer this unlawful system so it can suspend income support payments for bullshit reasons.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 4d

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Pete @treepete.bsky.social · 5d

Insane idea when Woodside projects in WA is 6% of total carbon budget for 1.5 C
Totally disingenuous take
Too gutless to just admit they've given up on any limit to FF use
Why wouldn't everyone else take the same idiotic justification if they could?
Only certainty is even greater climate impact

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 6d

The 'statement of reasons' given by enviro minister Murray Watt approving the North West Shelf gas project extension contains some astonishing mental gymnastics.
He assumes the same level of emissions could occur even if the project didn't proceed
epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/_entity/shar...

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Pete @treepete.bsky.social · 6d

As a local the organisation was already held in contempt by many
Just adding to the mess almost exactly 3 years after the climate driven disaster that bought such an incompetent org into existence
By posting the locals data straight into the mire of AI & then the world

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 8d

I’m old enough to remember when the Greens tried to negotiate better and more immediate outcomes and got called blockers and wreckers.

The ALP campaign on this was successful, the Greens had to back down. A victory, of sorts, if you call building zero homes a victory.

#AusPol

The PM wants to build homes like the one he grew up in. These days, it's harder

It takes a long time to build anything at all in Australia's dysfunctional housing market, even for the federal government, but Labor's social housing fund is inching towards an impact.

www.abc.net.au

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 10d

This was from Jane Goodall’s Facebook.

It doesn’t require explanation, it’s just a beautiful thing.

Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall, looking into each others eyes and knowing things.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 11d

A solemn day as we pay our respects to Dr Jane Goodall and her extraordinary legacy. Vale, Jane, we promise to keep fighting for all that you loved and fought for too!

theconversation.com/only-if-we-h... With @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social, Marissa Parrott, @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social & Zara Bending.

‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution

Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.

theconversation.com

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 12d

Labor could have done something significant for first home buyers, but instead has dropped them into an outrageously expensive market with the burden of a 95% mortgage to boot.

Why can't we have the tax reform that will actually help and that the Greens are pushing for?

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 12d

Compulsory viewing. #auspol #NPC #ChrisSidoti #BenSaul #GazaGenocide
www.youtube.com/live/MoUMmkQ...

IN FULL: Ben Saul and Chris Sidoti address Press Club on Palestine recognition | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

www.youtube.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 12d

PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social,

you may be desensitised to genocidal atrocities directed at children, but we are NOT

You need to SANCTION ISRAEL NOW

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 12d

Dr Assal Rad—

"UNICEF Spox James Elder is back in Gaza and says the violence is worse than ever.

"A horror show, paid for with US tax dollars."

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Pete @treepete.bsky.social · 13d

Reading it was infuriating so writing must have been truly maddening
Such an important record of Aus gov mercenary attitude to citizens and complicity in hiding total incompetence
Hard to feel those responsible have got what they deserve
Deserved recognition for you

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 14d

“A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s....

US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract

A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’

www.theguardian.com

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 14d

It is an indictment on Labor to have chosen a weak, unambitious and deadly climate target while First Nations people in this country already bear the brunt of extreme heat.

Labor knows their 62% target will lock in >2°C warming and heat will continue to kill and displace people.

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 14d

There was never going to be a genuine anti corruption body set up by a major party.

Because the major parties are corrupt.

Vote better.

#AusPol

Anti-corruption chief kept consulting role after saying he had resigned

The head of the national anti-corruption commission told a Senate inquiry he had resigned his role at the defence force's investigative arm. But the ABC has learned he continued consulting for them, a...

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 15d

How wealth inequality is destroying democracies worldwide w/ Chloe Swarbrick MP

youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE

The first politician on Gary's Economics

YouTube video by Garys Economics

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 16d

#BREAKING | Greta Thunberg: “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

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Pete @treepete.bsky.social · 16d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18d

“Every year we leave the Cop depressed, but we will begrudgingly continue to participate because if we’re not at the table we’ll be on the menu”

Exactly.
Australian political & media class obsess about whether we get to host the next Cop.
But fail to recognize the hypocrisy of a fossil-fueled govt.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 18d

Vanuatu Minister of Climate Change, Regenvanu: “Our main effort now is building an architecture outside of Cop [UN climate talks], using tools like the ICJ advisory opinion, to try and influence the process from outside and force states to comply with their obligations under international law.”

Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil-fuel industry influence

Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on ‘behalf of everybody’

www.theguardian.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19d

The ABC really just stepped on every rake.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post

Dispute began when radio presenter’s on-air shifts were cut short in 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 19d

Proud to be one of the signatories of this letter. Do better, @albomp.bsky.social. You can’t beat laws of physics and chemistry with political rhetoric. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Climate scientists target Albanese as Turkey holds out on COP talks

Anthony Albanese’s difficult trip to the UN General Assembly has been complicated by climate diplomacy, with leading scientists accusing him of landing weak climate targets.

www.smh.com.au

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 19d

No Premier, it is not socials vs scientists. It is unequivocal science showing that new coal and gas puts the safety of our kids’ future on the planet at risk. This is not a keyboard war. Our responsibility is to act on the science - not denigrate it. Not run Santos’ lines to protect their profit.

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