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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 3h

And the role of high fuel load invasive pasture grasses?
Silence driven by the almost complete capture of biosecurity governance by corporations with barely hidden for profit motives (links to pesticide companies, investment in fencing, apps, and other ‘marketable solutions’)?

Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 3h

Mparntwe Alice Springs burning due to buffel grass again. The old trees are disappearing :(

Meanwhile the cattle industry can and does seed buffel anywhere except in SA

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 4h

Great new review describing the many ways altered fire regimes harm species (and country).

From here it highlights the many tragic pathways by which buffel grass invasion destroys.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 4h

Thirty years of concentrated international effort and cooperation has now had this much effect on "the great moral, economic and social challenge of our time" (Rudd, 2007):

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 9d

WoodCIDE is contempt for society personified
Shame that the ruling classes dance to their tune

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10d

It's actually WORSE

Labor SA Premier Malinauskas has also teamed up with Woodside to GASLIGHT THE PUBLIC

No, WoodCIDE & Premier Malinauskas, ⬆️ FOSSIL GAS production INCREASES C & GHG pollution to our shared atmosphere & worsens #ClimateBreakdown—⬆️ FOSSIL GAS supply is NOT "a net zero solution"☠️

Screenshot of a Woodside Energy LinkedIn quote-post of a post from Liz Westcott

It reads:
"Our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Australia Liz
Westcott caught up with the South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas at The Australian's Energy Nation Conference and thanked him for his powerful endorsement for the role of gas."

Liz Westcott's post reads:
"It was great to catch up with Peter Malinauskas at The Australian's Energy Nation Forum in Sydney.

The Premier shared a compelling example of the role gas can play in decarbonisation.

He said that the Whyalla steelworks transitioning from a blast furnace burning metallurgical coal to using gas for direct iron production would halve the annual emissions of the steelworks.

But the Premier said to achieve it, South Australia will need a lot more gas than is currently available.

To put it another way, he said his support for gas is underpinned by his support for net zero.

At Woodside we wholeheartedly agree. Increased gas supply is a net zero solution.

Thank you for your unequivocal advocacy Premier."

Image shows a smiling Liz Westcott (left) and a smiling Peter Malinauskas (right)

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Adrian Tomlinson @adriantomlinson.bsky.social · 1d

Central Queensland Uni adjunct professor of environmental geography Steve Turton said the region was nearing its "thermal limits" for cropping and cattle, effectively ending the food bowl dream.

Yet the NT is pushing ahead with public spending for ‘Ord Stage 3’

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Northern Australia's food bowl vision all but abandoned

Farmers are close to abandoning the dream of a food bowl in northern Australia, as one expert warns the region is nearing its "thermal limits" for cropping and cattle.

www.abc.net.au

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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · Jan 18

Interview re coral reefs with Scientific American:

“We shouldn’t give up on the world’s coral reefs…. But restoration is not the way to save them.

The way to save them is to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, & that, of course, is much, much harder.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...

Earth’s Coral Reefs Face a New, Deadly Mass Bleaching. They Can Still Be Saved

“A mass bleaching event is, by definition, a mass mortality event,” a leading coral reef expert says

www.scientificamerican.com

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t mention industrial agriculture or biosecurity failures (clearing, fertilisers, pesticides including crazy ant poison, water flow change etc) or urbanisation. 🤫

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not just ‘abandoned’ agricultural lands that are a source of fuel - the continued planting of invasive high fuel load agricultural plants, particularly pasture grasses, is creating a massive fuel load on all land tenures across most of Aus. Biosecurity is captured and is setting us up to fail.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 5d

Karen Barlow: “The Senate inquiry into climate misinformation invited both News Corp and Advance to its hearings. So far the only response has been 5000 emails from Advance supporters, telling senators to back off.”

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21740/...

News Corp and Advance called to misinformation inquiry

The Senate inquiry into climate misinformation invited both News Corp and Advance to its hearings. So far the only response has been 5000 emails from Advance supporters, telling senators to back off.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 5d

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

‘An act of bastardry’: NT overruled Aboriginal authority to allow hotel on sacred site, advocates say

Film-maker Rachel Perkins says Larrakia people ‘would have never agreed’ to the planned 11-storey building

www.theguardian.com

Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 6d

Need to be careful attributing risks to ‘the abandonment of agricultural areas’ as this is very spatially specific, our experience is the agricultural sector with its invasive grasses like gamba and buffel encroaching on cities and degrading healthy woodlands is a huge wildfire issue.

Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 6d

Abandonment of agricultural areas? Seriously? Agriculture is still planting the high fuel load invasive pasture grasses, crops and forests we’re all surrounded by. Biosecurity governance is so captured its failures are not even discussed.

Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 6d

Abandonment of agricultural areas? Seriously? Agriculture is still planting the high fuel load invasive pasture grasses, crops and forests we’re all surrounded by. Biosecurity governance is so captured its failures are not even discussed.

Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 6d

Case card calls for National protection of ecosystems depending on groundwater.

www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 6d

Depletion of arid zone aquifers is happening globally. Australian aquifers are in the firing line.

“In some areas, the land is subsiding by up to 30cm per year. This is a disaster and shows that the water beneath our feet is running out.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens

Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s water

www.theguardian.com

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · Jun 8

Biodiversity is the collateral damage of war we never count—yet its loss, like human life, is eternal. No one mourns the forest, but the silence it leaves never ends.

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How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them — Grist

Twenty-two-year-old software developer Artem Motorniuk has spent his entire life in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, living in the north and visiting his grandparents in the south. It’s been almost...

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 10d

Erosion, weeds, soil degradation, wildfires and degradation of leased public lands and native title holder’s rights are all slipping under the radar with this ecocide.

Adrian Tomlinson @adriantomlinson.bsky.social · 10d

What a horrendous and unconscionable industry that can even try to argue this clearing and industrial scale death is ok. Shame too on ABC Rural for its positive framing of this wanton destruction.

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Land clearing stoush continues as environmentalists unsatisfied with drop

The beef industry in Queensland improves its land-clearing record, but environmentalists say the deforestation debate is far from over.

www.abc.net.au

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 13d

Doomadgee - dingo and rainbow serpent.

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, wonderful is the word - we seem to be accidentally / serendipitously weaving across the dingo songline all the way from Mparntwe to Kunhanhaa (Mornington Island). So many people generously sharing knowledge of the dingo and their communities connections with it along the way...

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 13d

We drove from Mpartnwe (Alice Springs) to Borroloola, saw a dingo on the way in and then found this book at Waralungku Art Centre waralungku.com!

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 16d

Failure in invasive species governance is rewarded with contracts that don’t even go to open tender, including contracts for RD&E strategies and funding strategies that fund research that end up in very dire consequence full ‘action plans’.

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 16d

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’ #Climate

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 19d

Wonderful time at the #greatnorthconference

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 20d

Anthony Albanese’s government are climate criminals and they’re consigning large parts of Australia to becoming uninhabitable. This is not just an environmental assault, it’s an assault on human rights.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Australia vows to cut emissions 62 to 70 per cent by 2035

Australia will vow to cut its emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035, lifting its sights further as the world strives to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

www.abc.net.au

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