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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 31

Absolutely on point for Australia's Labor government: they perceive any environmental issue as solved if they successfully sell it to the people as solved. There is no physicality or reality to any of these problems: just polls and perception and focus groups.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia tried to influence other countries and Unesco to keep Great Barrier Reef off in-danger list

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show a sustained strategy approved by environment minister Tanya Plibersek

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · Jan 30

Australian fossil fuel giant Santos’ pursuit of the Environmental Defenders Office could lead to its closure.

This is what SLAPP actions look like, and designed to silence an organisation that held fossil fuel companies to account.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Santos ruling could deter other law firms taking action, experts warn

Australia’s biggest enviro-law charity is scrambling to recover financially, after copping a $9 million legal bill in a high-profile loss against Santos. Experts fear it puts the entire future of envi...

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Jonathan 'Yotti' Kingsley @yottikingsley.bsky.social · Jan 29

Help us reach 200 participants in our study that tries to uncover how housing, gardening and health link together in NSW and Victoria 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾🌱

If you are over age of 50 years, we want to hear from you and your network by completing this 15-minute survey here: swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · Jan 29

This is truly shameful. Years of work wasted and the Australian public interest sacrificed to MAGA billionaires and fossil fuels. The sixth mass extinction is underway and we’re passing 1.5C of climate catastrophe.

Plibersek praised nature positive deal with Pocock and Greens as ‘critical’ before PM scrapped it, documents reveal

Correspondence released under freedom of information shows the importance minister placed on agreement

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · Jan 28

A "well-organised campaign" with "links to a climate change lobby." The "puppet" narrative began taking shape on Day 1 of @elliesmith4dickson.bsky.social's campaign.

Well done, @couriermail.bsky.social hack Brendan O'Malley. That's the way to get ahead ...
#NewsCorpse

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

Two special moments from the Little Desert Nature Lodge last year, before yesterday's devastating fire destroyed this cherished place. Unless we act on climate change such tragedies will become more common.

L - Western pygmy possum R - Wilkerr (dingo) pups
#WildOz 📷: Sam O'Reilly Ascent Media

Western pygmy possum on Euan Ritchie's hand.

Euan Ritchie holding two Wilkerr (dingo) pups.

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · Jan 28

This week at Mt Gibson, we're conducting a trapping survey to check in one the reintroduced Red-tailed Phascogale population. Here's on stopping to take in its surroundings after being released back into the wild.
#WildOz

A Red-tailed Phascogale pauses and looks over its shoulder in the middle of climbing a branch. It is a small mammal, a bit bigger than a mouse with big ears, grey fur, little pink feet and a long tail which has orange-red fur on the first half and a black, brushy tip.

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the treemugger @treemugger.bsky.social · Jan 28

Lol. Dutton making the inevitable pivot from Greenie bashing to commie scaremongering.

Kate Chaney MP @katechaneymp.bsky.social · Jan 26

Sometimes you just have to giggle. What do you think made me a radical extreme communist? Working as a corporate lawyer? Advising Australia’s biggest companies at BCG? A strategic role at Australia’s then biggest employer, Wesfarmers? The actual radical extreme communists must be horrified! #auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · Jan 28

The Queensland government pretends this is about evidence-based health.

But for the Christofascists in charge, this is pushing the Deep North version of MAGA.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights.

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · Jan 28

The Queensland government has put an immediate pause on new patients under the age of 18 from accessing hormone therapies in the state's public health system www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Queensland government halts hormone treatment for new patients under 18

Health Minister Tim Nicholls unveiled the pause on Tuesday as he also announced a review into the evidence for stage one and two hormone therapies for children with gender dysphoria.

www.abc.net.au

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the treemugger @treemugger.bsky.social · Jan 28

Garden essentials; flowers for pollinators, water bowls for heatwaves, hamster wheel for fun

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Jan 27

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.

The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.

The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

Chart showing instances of wild animals using a hamster wheel left out in the wild, with visits dominated by wild mice, followed by slugs, rats, shrews and a few frogs and snails.

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Doctors for The Environment Australia @docsenvaus.bsky.social · Jan 27

30,000 fish have washed up dead on WA’s Pilbara coast. Authorities have linked the deaths to a climate-change-driven marine heatwave that is expected to continue over the next few weeks. This should be a wakeup call. Urgent #ClimateAction is needed to protect marine life, biodiversity & communities.

Marine heatwave suspected cause of mass fish deaths in WA

Authorities believe marine heatwave conditions may have led to the death of around 30,000 fish at Gnoorea Beach, south of Karratha.

www.abc.net.au

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · Jan 26

Here's four quick actions you can do from anywhere. knittingnannas.org/2025/01/27/a...

Actions of the Week 27 Jan 2025

Sign up for clean water, ad-free sport, climate action and democracy – all quick actions.

knittingnannas.org

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · Jan 26

"I've been living mostly in my car for almost five years now after fleeing domestic violence"

In a nation as wealthy as Australia, it is obscene that #homelessness in growing.
While landlords get huge tax breaks.
And large corporations avoid tax with impunity.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Women sleeping in cars after escaping violence not a 'solution', say experts

Domestic violence services in NSW are at 150 per cent capacity, with short-term refuge solutions like car parks being viewed as a response to the immediate crisis.

www.abc.net.au

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the treemugger @treemugger.bsky.social · Jan 26

Agree. He's far less charismatic than Trump but it gives Trump supporters encouragement to consider voting for him.

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · Jan 24

People from Manly to Newcastle are relieved to hear that offshore gas mining exploration has been cancelled. knittingnannas.org/2025/01/24/g...

Good News 24 Jan 2025

Finally a decision against PEP-11, Aussie billionaire doing good, a new type of farming called agrivoltaics, check out what renewables are where, and see the photo of the endangered red goshawk in …

knittingnannas.org

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jan 24

Traditional Western allies of the US should be working fast to put together their own alliance in the face of a more aggressive, transactional, and frankly imperialist US administration. The longer they wait, the worse things will get.

Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Jan 24

In a "fiery" and "confrontational" call with Denmark's Prime Minister, Trump said he really does want to take over Greenland. Denmark is now freaking out. www.ft.com/content/ace0...

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Jan 24

The weather bureau is predicting a reprieve from heatwave conditions in parts of Queensland, but temperatures will still be brutal in some areas.

Heatwave set to ease for some Queenslanders, but warnings issued

The weather bureau is predicting a reprieve from heatwave conditions in parts of Queensland, but temperatures will still be brutal in some areas.

www.abc.net.au

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Doctors for The Environment Australia @docsenvaus.bsky.social · Jan 24

Last week about 2,000 litres of contaminated fracking waste water was pumped onto vegetation in the Beetaloo Basin. Tanya Plibersek must use the water trigger to protect the health of First Nations communities and our environment. Take action by emailing your MP here: www.lockthegate.org.au/beetaloo

Federal Labor: Urgently apply the water trigger to Beetaloo fracking

Australians working together to protect our land, our water and our future.

www.lockthegate.org.au

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Green Left @greenleftonline.bsky.social · Jan 24

Disrupt Burrup Hub said WA authorities have relentlessly pursued its activists for standing up to Woodside — “even campaigners who weren’t even present at the actions they were charged in relation to”. www.greenleft.org.au/content/disr...

Disrupt Burrup Hub activists plead not guilty to protesting for the climate

Disrupt Burrup Hub climate campaigners defiantly pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and will return to court to fight to other charges. Riley Breen reports.

www.greenleft.org.au

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · Jan 24

Pressure works.

Labor says it will increase the fed share of public school funding to 25% and eliminate the 4% deduction loophole, which teacher unions and the Greens have been pushing for.

But it looks like 100% funding is STILL a decade away. We look forward to more details in the coming days.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 24

Tech is in league with both authoritarianism and the fossil fuel industry

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/busines...

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jane phượng (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hello #FernFriday

Fern under a gum tree looking up all green.

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the treemugger @treemugger.bsky.social · Jan 24

Wild to me that people, even progressives, continue to cast environmental protestors as elites when this is the reality.

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Jan 23

Australia is increasingly criminalising peaceful protests while allowing corporate lobbying to thrive.

As @jack-thrower.bsky.social writes - Protesting fines are expensive; lobbying is cheap. #OffTheCharts

australiainstitute.org.au/post/compare...

Charts showing the penalty for protesting in each state versus the price of a meeting with a minister.

NSW Vic Qld SA Tas
Maximum penalty for anti-protest laws $22,000 $21,000 $7,740 $50,000 $9,750
Cost to meet with minister $1,500 $1,500 $2,000 $4,000 $4,000

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the treemugger @treemugger.bsky.social · Jan 24

I still hear a lot of arguments on the left that we can persuade or recruit M*GA but I think it's naive, and privileged, to downplay them choosing violence, and there are a lot of other, more viable people to engage in progressive politics.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jan 23

@aoc.bsky.social: "they will be rounded up and put into a private detention camp and signed and sent out for deportation without a day in court. So when a private prison camp opens in your town and they say we didn't know this was going to happen, know that they did, and they voted for it."

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