@fulminatinglynn.bsky.social
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PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
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Tell the banks to fund the industries of the future - not gas, coal and oil knittingnannas.org/2025/12/15/a...
Action of the Week 15 Dec 2025
We’ve come to expect scandals in the banking sector – a Royal Commission seven years ago confirmed our worst fears, and the stories of misconduct and corruption keep on coming.
knittingnannas.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Tell the banks to fund the industries of the future - not gas, coal and oil knittingnannas.org/2025/12/15/a...
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“It’s a rort, not reform”. Rex Patrick and Zoe Daniel are taking the ALP/LNP duopoly to the High Court over political fixer Don Farrell’s campaign finance Electoral Act which aims to defund/destroy Australia’s independents movement. Annika Smethurst SMH/Age. 👇👇
December 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“It’s a rort, not reform”. Rex Patrick and Zoe Daniel are taking the ALP/LNP duopoly to the High Court over political fixer Don Farrell’s campaign finance Electoral Act which aims to defund/destroy Australia’s independents movement. Annika Smethurst SMH/Age. 👇👇
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Read the full @theguardian.com piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Read the full @theguardian.com piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Suprise
It's a scam
Magical numbers and wishful thinking and just sloppy lazy bs.
It's a scam
Magical numbers and wishful thinking and just sloppy lazy bs.
“The US energy giant Chevron describes it as the world’s largest industrial carbon dioxide injection project of its kind. But it has a problem. It still isn’t working as promised and the results are getting worse”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed?
Despite billions in investment, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics say
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Suprise
It's a scam
Magical numbers and wishful thinking and just sloppy lazy bs.
It's a scam
Magical numbers and wishful thinking and just sloppy lazy bs.
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Did you know those over 55 can sell their house, buy a bigger, more expensive house, and use the ‘downsizer’ scheme to put $300k extra into their super
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The rich get tax advice; the poor get lectures: super tax saga lays bare a skewed system
A new report on the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the changes to superannuation tax on balances over $3m highlights yet again how the tax system is weighted in favour of the rich and that...
thepoint.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Did you know those over 55 can sell their house, buy a bigger, more expensive house, and use the ‘downsizer’ scheme to put $300k extra into their super
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
its called the ‘downsizer scheme’ but…you don’t have to actually downsize…FFS
Not sure that passes ‘the pub test’
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
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Through plausible accounting tricks and dodgy offsets, big tech wants to power its massive data centre build with fossil fuels, putting humanity at risk.
Ravenous big tech is here to feast on our resources — and its lobbying playbook is only just getting started
www.crikey.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Through plausible accounting tricks and dodgy offsets, big tech wants to power its massive data centre build with fossil fuels, putting humanity at risk.
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Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as the enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs
Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as the enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs
Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as the enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs
www.independent.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as the enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs
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Fourteen people, among them three children, have died in Gaza over the past 24 hours as homes collapsed on residents amid the severe cold of the ongoing winter storm.
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Fourteen people, among them three children, have died in Gaza over the past 24 hours as homes collapsed on residents amid the severe cold of the ongoing winter storm.
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It’s time super funds lived up to their commitments by ending fossil fuel expansion and securing a stable retirement for us all! Check out our latest report and take action at marketforces.org.au/ffx200
www.superreview.com.au/super-funds-...
www.superreview.com.au/super-funds-...
Super funds’ fossil fuel exposure draws $33bn scrutiny - Super Review
Funds are facing criticism after a new analysis found $33 billion is invested by super funds in companies expanding coal, oil and gas globally.
www.superreview.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It’s time super funds lived up to their commitments by ending fossil fuel expansion and securing a stable retirement for us all! Check out our latest report and take action at marketforces.org.au/ffx200
www.superreview.com.au/super-funds-...
www.superreview.com.au/super-funds-...
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NEW REPORT: Market Forces has identified 200 companies with the biggest coal, oil and gas expansion plans globally — aka the Fossil Fuel Expansion Index, or FFX 200.
These companies are actively driving more extreme #climate disasters. And your super fund probably invests in them.
These companies are actively driving more extreme #climate disasters. And your super fund probably invests in them.
The Fossil Fuel Expansion Index - Market Forces
How Australian superannuation funds are propping up the world’s most unforgivable climate polluters
www.marketforces.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
NEW REPORT: Market Forces has identified 200 companies with the biggest coal, oil and gas expansion plans globally — aka the Fossil Fuel Expansion Index, or FFX 200.
These companies are actively driving more extreme #climate disasters. And your super fund probably invests in them.
These companies are actively driving more extreme #climate disasters. And your super fund probably invests in them.
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Wendy Bacon & Tracey Carpenter two of six Knitting Nannas arrested @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade last weekend in Newcastle.
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Wendy Bacon & Tracey Carpenter two of six Knitting Nannas arrested @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade last weekend in Newcastle.
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New Knitting Nanna and legendary investigative journalist @wendybacon1.bsky.social on why she chose to get arrested last weekend .. but this time in a yellow T shirt!
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
New Knitting Nanna and legendary investigative journalist @wendybacon1.bsky.social on why she chose to get arrested last weekend .. but this time in a yellow T shirt!
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Honestly, the rot is far worse and more widespread than that. The way the entire energy world is nodding sagely at how adult and unavoidable and realistic it is to perpetually extend coal plants is possibly one of the grimmest things I've seen, and no one seems to have a clue how ugly it has become
“NSW Premier Chris Minns says keeping the Eraring power station* running for longer than its planned closure date in 2027 will be a good thing for NSW”
*coal fired.
If you want to know how seriously the current generation of political leaders takes emissions..
@ketanjoshi.co
*coal fired.
If you want to know how seriously the current generation of political leaders takes emissions..
@ketanjoshi.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Honestly, the rot is far worse and more widespread than that. The way the entire energy world is nodding sagely at how adult and unavoidable and realistic it is to perpetually extend coal plants is possibly one of the grimmest things I've seen, and no one seems to have a clue how ugly it has become
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Hundreds took to the water intending to be arrested at #RisingTide but police used discretion to arrest or not, and to cherry-pick which charges to lay. Investigative journalist and Knitting Nanna Wendy Bacon with her wrap of @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade.
michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...
michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...
Rising Tide, rising backlog. Coal protests too big for Zero Tolerance, police & courts - Michael West
156 people arrested during the Rising Tide protests, which closed the world's biggest coal port at Newcastle. Wendy Bacon was one of them.
michaelwest.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Hundreds took to the water intending to be arrested at #RisingTide but police used discretion to arrest or not, and to cherry-pick which charges to lay. Investigative journalist and Knitting Nanna Wendy Bacon with her wrap of @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade.
michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...
michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...
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A factory in the Hunter will produce Australian-made PV modules for local and export markets. Bye bye coal! knittingnannas.org/2025/12/05/g...
Good News December 5, 2025
Along with Rising Tide , there’s some other good stuff in here…
knittingnannas.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A factory in the Hunter will produce Australian-made PV modules for local and export markets. Bye bye coal! knittingnannas.org/2025/12/05/g...
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Former photos of the Traditional Owners at a ceremony on Wahluu 2018.
See ⬇️ for 2024 report on the decision.
See ⬇️ for 2024 report on the decision.
Billion-dollar gold mine would cause 'irreversible' damage to Aboriginal heritage, says Plibersek
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the reasons for a decision that has stalled a $1bn NSW gold mine, finding "permanent loss" of cultural heritage outweighed the financial cost of stalling...
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Former photos of the Traditional Owners at a ceremony on Wahluu 2018.
See ⬇️ for 2024 report on the decision.
See ⬇️ for 2024 report on the decision.
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Please join us & stand alongside the Wiradjuri at the appeal by gold mine owners against the s.10 protection that Tanya Plibersek placed over the headwaters of the Belubula River near Blayney.
Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
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Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
🧶👵🧵1/2
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Please join us & stand alongside the Wiradjuri at the appeal by gold mine owners against the s.10 protection that Tanya Plibersek placed over the headwaters of the Belubula River near Blayney.
Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
🧶👵🧵1/2
Wed, 10th December at 10am. Federal Court, Level 17 Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney.
🧶👵🧵1/2
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George is absolutely right.
I'm not sure I've seen a crisper illustration of how insidiously normalization operates.
We're debating the *second* strike.
I'm not sure I've seen a crisper illustration of how insidiously normalization operates.
We're debating the *second* strike.
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
George is absolutely right.
I'm not sure I've seen a crisper illustration of how insidiously normalization operates.
We're debating the *second* strike.
I'm not sure I've seen a crisper illustration of how insidiously normalization operates.
We're debating the *second* strike.
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"This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible. This is how you get people apparently faking that DHS's account was created in Israel."
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible. This is how you get people apparently faking that DHS's account was created in Israel."
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Just Saying
33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!
is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”
we are mining our way to extinction FFS
how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a
it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.
#Auspol
33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!
is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”
we are mining our way to extinction FFS
how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a
it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.
#Auspol
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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There's a lot to enrage us this week, Murray Watts "now or never" approach to environmental law, a judge removing herself from a case after connections revealed, a Caramello Koala given to a koala protection campaigner knittingnannas.org/2025/11/25/n...
Nanna News 24 Nov 2025
The campaign against Pilliga Narrabri Gas revs up, Labor disappoints Nannas yet again, UN Special Rapporteur steps in, Forest Roadshow in Sydney, Lendlease Chairman hands out a Caramello Koala.
knittingnannas.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There's a lot to enrage us this week, Murray Watts "now or never" approach to environmental law, a judge removing herself from a case after connections revealed, a Caramello Koala given to a koala protection campaigner knittingnannas.org/2025/11/25/n...
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“…..Charlesworth was the judge who ruled in favour of Santos in its appeal against the ultimately unsuccessful case against its Barossa project brought by Tiwi Islander Simon Munkara and the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)..”
www.energynewsbulletin.net/operations/n...
www.energynewsbulletin.net/operations/n...
Santos' Narrabri project in disarray as judge recuses herself from appeal hearing over
The progress of Santos' Narrabri gas project into disarray today as a judge due to oversee a potentially decisive appeal hearing tomorrow, steps down from the case due to concerns of bias. The move co...
www.energynewsbulletin.net
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“…..Charlesworth was the judge who ruled in favour of Santos in its appeal against the ultimately unsuccessful case against its Barossa project brought by Tiwi Islander Simon Munkara and the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)..”
www.energynewsbulletin.net/operations/n...
www.energynewsbulletin.net/operations/n...
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Want to come to the beach with us? You can! From Nov 27-Dec 2nd Knitting Nannas from across Australia will paddle out on Newcastle Harbour the world’s largest coal port for #ClimateAction with @risingtideaus.bsky.social
It’s going to massive register here: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego
It’s going to massive register here: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Want to come to the beach with us? You can! From Nov 27-Dec 2nd Knitting Nannas from across Australia will paddle out on Newcastle Harbour the world’s largest coal port for #ClimateAction with @risingtideaus.bsky.social
It’s going to massive register here: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego
It’s going to massive register here: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego