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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Jun 5

Pacific Elders Voice: "As a member of the [Pacific Islands] Forum, Australia’s actions are in sharp contradiction to its platitudes around caring for the Pacific ‘family.’ The Woodside project is a demonstration of Australia’s glaring disconnect between rhetoric and action."

Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · Jun 5

Pacific Elders statement on Woodsides North West Shelf extension and the betrayal of Anthony Albanese cabinet in approving it.
pacificelders.org/statement/au...

Australia's decision to extend the Woodside gas project and implications for co-hosting COP31 with the Pacific — Pacific Elders Voice

The Pacific Elders’ Voice notes with deep concern the recent decision by the Government of Australia to extend the lifetime of its Woodside North West Shelf Extension gas project until 2070.

pacificelders.org

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rapoportcenter.bsky.social @rapoportcenter.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulations to Rapoport Center co-director @karengle.bsky.social for her new publication, Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court! Professor Engle’s work, published in the Cambridge Elements series, is available free for the next week. Read it here: cup.org/3FqfvPp

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Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · Jun 6

“She says the early weeks of the re-elected Albanese government have led to “a reassessment of how to engage, because what we’ve been doing with Labor in the last couple of years, it’s hard to see how it’s working”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labor accused of ‘gaslighting’ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved

‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says

www.theguardian.com

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Jun 2

Last month, we Iaunched Queer Judgments in Melbourne alongside two other fantastic books on queer law edited by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social. We had a lovely chat/performance about our books with @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto & Sarah Ward. Listen here:

Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch

The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School was pleased to host a triple book launch to celebrate and draw out the connections between three recent edited volumes fo

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · May 28

⚡️ ⚖️ Precedent-setting #climatelitigation victory this morning in #SaulvsRWE
🙌 🎉 A victory for #climatejustice and corporate accountability
🧵🧑‍⚖️ A short thread to unpack the key legal principles reaffirmed by the judges of the Higher Court of Hamm 🇩🇪 ⬇️ 1/8

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Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · May 28

More than ten years worth of Australia’s emissions in a single facility for export. There is nothing that the Labor party could do this term - or ever - that could bring it back from the impact of this decision for climate harms.

Absolutely evil.

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Environmental Justice Australia @envirojustice.bsky.social · May 28

🚨 Australia’s new federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has said he intends to approve a forty-year extension to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project.

With his first significant decision set to fuel almost four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas.

More here: envirojustice.org.au/press-releas...

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · May 28

I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad.

What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social.

I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Breaking: Australia's largest gas project approved for operation to 2070

The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...

www.abc.net.au

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · May 1

Loved celebrating 3 books focused on queer approaches to law this evening- Queer Judgemnts, & my 2 edited books with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social on queering int law! Thanks @dsheikh.bsky.social, @senthorun.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social & others for presenting & all who joined us there or online

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Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · May 1

A queer delight to celebrate queer legal scholarship today in Melbourne & launch our family of books: Queer Judgments, Queer Engagements with International Law, & Queer Encounters with International Law.

@claerwen.bsky.social
@senthorun.bsky.social
@juliadehm.bsky.social
@dansheikh.bsky.social

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Photo of different people, in colourful outfits, holding up books on queer approaches to law.

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · Apr 22

The first episode of our podcast with @prof-mac.bsky.social
'Law at the End of the World' is now available on Spotify.
In this episode we are joined by the fabulous @juliadehm.bsky.social who talks about her research, methodology, collaboration, building community, & attempting to find balance.

Episode 1 - Collaboration in the climate crisis (with Julia Dehm)

Law at the End of the World · Episode

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Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thanks for the nudge!

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Lys Kulamadayil @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social · Apr 1

For a sneak preview of my forthcoming monograph, please join for the virtual book talk of 'The Pathology of Plenty' organised by the fabulous @juliadehm.bsky.social & Caitlin Murphy!
Details below 👇

Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Apr 1

Join us next Tuesday for a talk by @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, "The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law"

Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Feb 3

Dr Lys Kulamadayil @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social (IHEID), ‘The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law’
8 April, 8am CEST/11.30am IST/4pm AEST
Register: latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Apr 1

Join us next Tuesday for a talk by @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, "The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law"

Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Feb 3

Dr Lys Kulamadayil @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social (IHEID), ‘The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law’
8 April, 8am CEST/11.30am IST/4pm AEST
Register: latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Mar 12

Don't forget to register for Prof Sigrid Boysen's lecture on 'Postcolonial Constellations:Natural Resources and Modern International Law's next Tuesday 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Feb 3

Prof Sigrid Boysen (Helmut Schmidt), ‘Postcolonial Constellation: Natural Resources and Modern International Law’
25 March, 9am CET/1.30pm IST/7pm AEDT
Register: latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Mar 4

TODAY 👇🏼

Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · Feb 3

Dr George Forji Amin (Bolton), ‘International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa’
4 March, 8am GMT/11am EAT/7pm AEDT
Register: latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Julian Webb @julianinoz.bsky.social · Mar 3

My chapter, with Prof Vivien Holmes, on the legal profession and climate change is now live as part of @juliadehm.bsky.social et al's new textbook, Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System at www.latrobe.edu.au/library/open..., here's a short taster...

Extract from chapter advancing arguments that lawyers have an obligation to address climate change in their work by virtue of their special social role and ethical commitments to values of 'justice, truth and fairness'.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Research funding body suspends grant to pro-Palestinian academic

Controversial academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has said Zionists “have no claim or right to cultural safety”, has had her $870,000 research grant suspended.

www.afr.com

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