Letters for the Environment Central Australia
@letterscentral.bsky.social
LECA is a community letter writing group based in Mparntwe - unceded central Arrernte country.
https://www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/
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So, in summary, we know that colonialist billionaires are an invasive weed in Australia and elsewhere in the world, which impacts biodiversity, culture and fire regimes.
Along with our government.
Every cattle owning billionaire funds the cattlemen's association, who lobby for their interests.
Along with our government.
Every cattle owning billionaire funds the cattlemen's association, who lobby for their interests.
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM
So, in summary, we know that colonialist billionaires are an invasive weed in Australia and elsewhere in the world, which impacts biodiversity, culture and fire regimes.
Along with our government.
Every cattle owning billionaire funds the cattlemen's association, who lobby for their interests.
Along with our government.
Every cattle owning billionaire funds the cattlemen's association, who lobby for their interests.
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Glyphosate isn’t the only issue.
The larger question is what a chemical-dependent agricultural system does to soils, biodiversity, microbial life, resistance, and long-term resilience.
Debate framed as “ban it or use nastier pesticides” misses the deeper problem: dependence itself.
The larger question is what a chemical-dependent agricultural system does to soils, biodiversity, microbial life, resistance, and long-term resilience.
Debate framed as “ban it or use nastier pesticides” misses the deeper problem: dependence itself.
The idiocy around Roundup isn't quite as idiotic as the idiocy around vaccines, but it's still super-wrong and super-Trumpy. Rational people need to stop swallowing this pseudoscientific nonsense. Banning Roundup would usher in a new era of much nastier pesticides. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Glyphosate isn’t the only issue.
The larger question is what a chemical-dependent agricultural system does to soils, biodiversity, microbial life, resistance, and long-term resilience.
Debate framed as “ban it or use nastier pesticides” misses the deeper problem: dependence itself.
The larger question is what a chemical-dependent agricultural system does to soils, biodiversity, microbial life, resistance, and long-term resilience.
Debate framed as “ban it or use nastier pesticides” misses the deeper problem: dependence itself.
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"The LNP were effectively giving Queensland's coal to Adani for free."
After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
February 13, 2026 at 5:54 AM
"The LNP were effectively giving Queensland's coal to Adani for free."
After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
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Is anyone @timcurran.bsky.social @letterscentral.bsky.social @ipes-food.org going to point out who owns Australian land, and what the consequences of that skewed, colonialist, profiteering, climate/land degrading, lobbying ownership is?
AUSTRALIAN MAJOR LANDOWNERS WHO OWN MORE LAND THAN BILL GATES. 🧵1/16
#1 GINA RINEHART:
Bill Gates: 275,000 acres.
Gina Rinehart: 23,969,000 and rising:
www.beefcentral.com/property/gin...
Where @ipes-food.org is anyone mentioning the lobbying power of the meat industry in Australia?
#1 GINA RINEHART:
Bill Gates: 275,000 acres.
Gina Rinehart: 23,969,000 and rising:
www.beefcentral.com/property/gin...
Where @ipes-food.org is anyone mentioning the lobbying power of the meat industry in Australia?
Gina Rinehart outlays about $70m adding Wirribilla to her New England portfolio - Beef Central
Gine Rinehart has added to her already enormous New England grazing footprint with a $70 million purchase of 5000ha Wirribilla, southwest of Walcha...Read More
www.beefcentral.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Is anyone @timcurran.bsky.social @letterscentral.bsky.social @ipes-food.org going to point out who owns Australian land, and what the consequences of that skewed, colonialist, profiteering, climate/land degrading, lobbying ownership is?
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fyi @letterscentral.bsky.social @gergyl.bsky.social
Welcome to #WhiteAustralia at Heytesbury Pastoral.
It's *so weird* how climate200 can't say a bad thing about meat, agriculture + raising cattle in Australia, right?
Simon, he's so lucky to score a meat tray!
Welcome to #WhiteAustralia at Heytesbury Pastoral.
It's *so weird* how climate200 can't say a bad thing about meat, agriculture + raising cattle in Australia, right?
Simon, he's so lucky to score a meat tray!
February 12, 2026 at 7:13 AM
fyi @letterscentral.bsky.social @gergyl.bsky.social
Welcome to #WhiteAustralia at Heytesbury Pastoral.
It's *so weird* how climate200 can't say a bad thing about meat, agriculture + raising cattle in Australia, right?
Simon, he's so lucky to score a meat tray!
Welcome to #WhiteAustralia at Heytesbury Pastoral.
It's *so weird* how climate200 can't say a bad thing about meat, agriculture + raising cattle in Australia, right?
Simon, he's so lucky to score a meat tray!
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We also know that if you can eradicate buffel grass in arid Australia, you get a return of the native understorey plants and provide much more seed for granivorous (seed-eating) native fauna such as ants, birds and small mammals:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) eradication in arid central Australia enhances native plant diversity and increases seed resources for granivores
Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) is a drought-adapted invasive plant of arid and semi-arid grassland and woodland systems globally. This research demonstrates that buffel grass removal at localise...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
We also know that if you can eradicate buffel grass in arid Australia, you get a return of the native understorey plants and provide much more seed for granivorous (seed-eating) native fauna such as ants, birds and small mammals:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
The cattle ‘industry’ response to our community trying to manage the threat of buffel grass.
This shameful interview starts at 14:58
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Couldn’t be more revealing.
Selfish
Greedy
Entitled
Dangerous
This shameful interview starts at 14:58
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Couldn’t be more revealing.
Selfish
Greedy
Entitled
Dangerous
February 10, 2026 at 9:51 PM
The cattle ‘industry’ response to our community trying to manage the threat of buffel grass.
This shameful interview starts at 14:58
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Couldn’t be more revealing.
Selfish
Greedy
Entitled
Dangerous
This shameful interview starts at 14:58
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Couldn’t be more revealing.
Selfish
Greedy
Entitled
Dangerous
February 8, 2026 at 11:23 AM
A thousand voices is the start of a chorus that you cannot tune out with bulldust.
Please continue to sign and share x
www.change.org/p/buffel-gra...
Please continue to sign and share x
www.change.org/p/buffel-gra...
February 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM
A thousand voices is the start of a chorus that you cannot tune out with bulldust.
Please continue to sign and share x
www.change.org/p/buffel-gra...
Please continue to sign and share x
www.change.org/p/buffel-gra...
Interesting poll at the end of this article. Add your vote!
au.news.yahoo.com/alarm-as-inv...
au.news.yahoo.com/alarm-as-inv...
February 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Interesting poll at the end of this article. Add your vote!
au.news.yahoo.com/alarm-as-inv...
au.news.yahoo.com/alarm-as-inv...
Article in the local rag - Centralian Today
Case card here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...
Case card here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...
February 5, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Article in the local rag - Centralian Today
Case card here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...
Case card here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...
Funny how Government ministers defend complexity in financial decisions but not environmental or social considerations.
“Projects of this scale and strategic importance involve complex and time-consuming financing processes," Gerard Maley, NT Mining Minister.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
“Projects of this scale and strategic importance involve complex and time-consuming financing processes," Gerard Maley, NT Mining Minister.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
It has been backed by Trump and Rinehart — but where is the Arafura mine?
It is the Central Australian mine promised to help upset China's dominance of the rare earths market worldwide, and bring hundreds of jobs to Australia. But where is it?
www.abc.net.au
February 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Funny how Government ministers defend complexity in financial decisions but not environmental or social considerations.
“Projects of this scale and strategic importance involve complex and time-consuming financing processes," Gerard Maley, NT Mining Minister.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
“Projects of this scale and strategic importance involve complex and time-consuming financing processes," Gerard Maley, NT Mining Minister.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Australia isn’t a neutral observer. Pine Gap provided the intelligence enabling June 2025 strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, ops now drawing genocide allegations at the ICJ given the broader context of US-Israeli coordination. Oz is complicit, and Tehran has noticed.
theaimn.net/as-trump-thr...
theaimn.net/as-trump-thr...
As Trump Threatens Weekend Strike on Iran, Albanese Pretends Pine Gap Isn’t Complicit
Albanese’s Iran Illusion: How Australia Sleepwalks into Someone Else’s War While our federal government waffles on about rules based order, Iran is rewriting the rules of modern warfare. Trump is thre...
theaimn.net
February 1, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Australia isn’t a neutral observer. Pine Gap provided the intelligence enabling June 2025 strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, ops now drawing genocide allegations at the ICJ given the broader context of US-Israeli coordination. Oz is complicit, and Tehran has noticed.
theaimn.net/as-trump-thr...
theaimn.net/as-trump-thr...
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 AM
We are the heart of your country - you cannot distance yourself from what is happening here - fill in the survey haveyoursay.nt.gov.au/draft-buffel...
Don’t know where to start? - DM us or find tips here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/topics/buffel/
Don’t know where to start? - DM us or find tips here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/topics/buffel/
Draft Buffel Grass Weed Management Plan Survey
Help us develop a Weed Management Plan for buffel grass. In July 2024, buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris and C. pennisetiformis) was formally declared a weed under the Northern Territory Weeds Managemen...
haveyoursay.nt.gov.au
January 31, 2026 at 3:26 AM
We are the heart of your country - you cannot distance yourself from what is happening here - fill in the survey haveyoursay.nt.gov.au/draft-buffel...
Don’t know where to start? - DM us or find tips here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/topics/buffel/
Don’t know where to start? - DM us or find tips here: www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/topics/buffel/
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If Alice Springs doesn't have one already, reckon you can make a plant based treaty happen :)
plantbasedtreaty.org
vegconomist.com/society/char...
plantbasedtreaty.org
vegconomist.com/society/char...
The Plant Based Treaty | Eat Plants, Plant Trees
The Plant Based Treaty is a landmark international treaty and first of its kind to put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis. The Treaty aims to halt the widespread degradation of ...
plantbasedtreaty.org
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 AM
If Alice Springs doesn't have one already, reckon you can make a plant based treaty happen :)
plantbasedtreaty.org
vegconomist.com/society/char...
plantbasedtreaty.org
vegconomist.com/society/char...
Another great NT #buffelgrass weed management plan survey workshop!
It’s inspiring to be part of such engaged, knowledgeable and energetic community!
haveyoursay.nt.gov.au/draft-buffel...
Thanks Olive Pink Botanic Garden
It’s inspiring to be part of such engaged, knowledgeable and energetic community!
haveyoursay.nt.gov.au/draft-buffel...
Thanks Olive Pink Botanic Garden
January 31, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Another great NT #buffelgrass weed management plan survey workshop!
It’s inspiring to be part of such engaged, knowledgeable and energetic community!
haveyoursay.nt.gov.au/draft-buffel...
Thanks Olive Pink Botanic Garden
It’s inspiring to be part of such engaged, knowledgeable and energetic community!
haveyoursay.nt.gov.au/draft-buffel...
Thanks Olive Pink Botanic Garden
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Fuck the genocidal, ecocidal, economic drain that is the pastoral industry.
Fuck Gina Rinehart.
Fuck Andrew Forrest.
Fuck the Holmes à Court + Murdoch families.
Fuck the QLD government.
Fuck the media who refuses to talk about these majors of massive industrial agriculture who are killing us.
Fuck Gina Rinehart.
Fuck Andrew Forrest.
Fuck the Holmes à Court + Murdoch families.
Fuck the QLD government.
Fuck the media who refuses to talk about these majors of massive industrial agriculture who are killing us.
F the genocidal, ecocidal, economic drain that is the pastoral industry.
January 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Fuck the genocidal, ecocidal, economic drain that is the pastoral industry.
Fuck Gina Rinehart.
Fuck Andrew Forrest.
Fuck the Holmes à Court + Murdoch families.
Fuck the QLD government.
Fuck the media who refuses to talk about these majors of massive industrial agriculture who are killing us.
Fuck Gina Rinehart.
Fuck Andrew Forrest.
Fuck the Holmes à Court + Murdoch families.
Fuck the QLD government.
Fuck the media who refuses to talk about these majors of massive industrial agriculture who are killing us.
F the genocidal, ecocidal, economic drain that is the pastoral industry.
January 30, 2026 at 10:12 AM
F the genocidal, ecocidal, economic drain that is the pastoral industry.
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And the mode for NW&NE Pastoral rounded to nearest degree is 50C! #santos #globalheating
January 30, 2026 at 7:01 AM
And the mode for NW&NE Pastoral rounded to nearest degree is 50C! #santos #globalheating
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50C in Port Augusta and a plethora of 49Cs in SA today :(
January 30, 2026 at 5:47 AM
50C in Port Augusta and a plethora of 49Cs in SA today :(
50C in Port Augusta and a plethora of 49Cs in SA today :(
January 30, 2026 at 5:47 AM
50C in Port Augusta and a plethora of 49Cs in SA today :(