Gregory Andrews
@lyrebirddream.bsky.social
Now: Climate Advocate and Dad.
Then: Australian Ambassador, Threatened Species Commissioner.
Then: Australian Ambassador, Threatened Species Commissioner.
On #BlackFriday, most Aussies know Kim Kardashian’s latest drop, but not our own Golden Bandicoot, which is rarer than diamonds.
Let’s redirect attention and so-called “savings” to what really matters.
Read and share.👇🏽
#FloraAndFaunaFriday
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Let’s redirect attention and so-called “savings” to what really matters.
Read and share.👇🏽
#FloraAndFaunaFriday
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Competing with Kim Kardashian: A Golden Bandicoot for #BlackFriday
It’s #FloraAndFaunaFriday but also #BlackFriday, another day of marketing gimmickry when the algorithms shout louder than our wildlife. Today, Australia will spend millions chasing celebrity perfumes ...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
On #BlackFriday, most Aussies know Kim Kardashian’s latest drop, but not our own Golden Bandicoot, which is rarer than diamonds.
Let’s redirect attention and so-called “savings” to what really matters.
Read and share.👇🏽
#FloraAndFaunaFriday
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/competi...
Let’s redirect attention and so-called “savings” to what really matters.
Read and share.👇🏽
#FloraAndFaunaFriday
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/competi...
1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists were official delegates at COP30 in Brazil.
If you’re addicted to something that’s killing you, you don’t ask your dealer to write the rehab plan.
Read my blog on corporate capture and climate politics.👇🏽
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If you’re addicted to something that’s killing you, you don’t ask your dealer to write the rehab plan.
Read my blog on corporate capture and climate politics.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/corpora...
Fixing Corporate Capture and Climate Change
The Fossil Fuel Industry had 1,600 official delegates at COP30 in BrazilWhen I first saw that number, I had to read it twice. More than 1,600 fossil fuel industry delegates had official access at COP3...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists were official delegates at COP30 in Brazil.
If you’re addicted to something that’s killing you, you don’t ask your dealer to write the rehab plan.
Read my blog on corporate capture and climate politics.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/corpora...
If you’re addicted to something that’s killing you, you don’t ask your dealer to write the rehab plan.
Read my blog on corporate capture and climate politics.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/corpora...
Agreeing to “begin discussions” on an “eventual” and “voluntary” phase-out of fossil fuels doesn’t cut the mustard.
The ‘outcome’ of COP30 in Brazil proves the Paris Agreement is failing us.
Read my post.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-par...
The ‘outcome’ of COP30 in Brazil proves the Paris Agreement is failing us.
Read my post.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-par...
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Agreeing to “begin discussions” on an “eventual” and “voluntary” phase-out of fossil fuels doesn’t cut the mustard.
The ‘outcome’ of COP30 in Brazil proves the Paris Agreement is failing us.
Read my post.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-par...
The ‘outcome’ of COP30 in Brazil proves the Paris Agreement is failing us.
Read my post.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-par...
“Always Was, Always Will be Aboriginal Land” doesn’t mean non-Aboriginal Australians don’t belong here too.
It means we can all belong here honesty about where we’ve come from and where we’re going.👇🏽
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It means we can all belong here honesty about where we’ve come from and where we’re going.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/always-...
“Always Was, Always Will Be”: What It Really Means for Belonging on This Land
Somewhere between Narrabri and Gilgandra, bumping along a dirt back road on my e-bike, I realised just how far I’d travelled without really moving at all.On this #eBike4Australia ride I’ve crossed Ngu...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
“Always Was, Always Will be Aboriginal Land” doesn’t mean non-Aboriginal Australians don’t belong here too.
It means we can all belong here honesty about where we’ve come from and where we’re going.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/always-...
It means we can all belong here honesty about where we’ve come from and where we’re going.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/always-...
After cycling 2200 km for #AlterCOP in BrisVegas, I just got my first flat tyre on the backroads in Wiradjuri Country about 50 km north of Dubbo.
Getting a puncture long distance cycling is a bit like doing your tax return. It’s not bad as you think it’ll be.
#eBike4Australia
Getting a puncture long distance cycling is a bit like doing your tax return. It’s not bad as you think it’ll be.
#eBike4Australia
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
After cycling 2200 km for #AlterCOP in BrisVegas, I just got my first flat tyre on the backroads in Wiradjuri Country about 50 km north of Dubbo.
Getting a puncture long distance cycling is a bit like doing your tax return. It’s not bad as you think it’ll be.
#eBike4Australia
Getting a puncture long distance cycling is a bit like doing your tax return. It’s not bad as you think it’ll be.
#eBike4Australia
900km from Brissy with another 540km to go.
Moving from Kamilaroi and onto Wiradjuri Country.
Feels like I’m getting closer to home.
Follow my #eBike4Australia blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/blog
Moving from Kamilaroi and onto Wiradjuri Country.
Feels like I’m getting closer to home.
Follow my #eBike4Australia blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/blog
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
900km from Brissy with another 540km to go.
Moving from Kamilaroi and onto Wiradjuri Country.
Feels like I’m getting closer to home.
Follow my #eBike4Australia blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/blog
Moving from Kamilaroi and onto Wiradjuri Country.
Feels like I’m getting closer to home.
Follow my #eBike4Australia blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/blog
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Rode the back roads through the Pilliga today for a break from the Newell Hwy.
Under the eucalypts, I kept thinking about two threats: hotter, more destructive bushfires - and the permanent poisoning risk from coal seam gas and fracking.
Read my blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-pil...
Under the eucalypts, I kept thinking about two threats: hotter, more destructive bushfires - and the permanent poisoning risk from coal seam gas and fracking.
Read my blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-pil...
The Pilliga Doesn't Get to Speak in Parliament
Today I left the trucks of the Newell Highway for 100km or so of back roads through the Pilliga. It was quieter and softer on the nerves. That said, I do want to say up front that the truckies out her...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Rode the back roads through the Pilliga today for a break from the Newell Hwy.
Under the eucalypts, I kept thinking about two threats: hotter, more destructive bushfires - and the permanent poisoning risk from coal seam gas and fracking.
Read my blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-pil...
Under the eucalypts, I kept thinking about two threats: hotter, more destructive bushfires - and the permanent poisoning risk from coal seam gas and fracking.
Read my blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-pil...
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Cycling from Goondiwindi to Narrabri, I passed rich black-soil and fence-line signs from farmers warning about coal seam gas.
In a heating, drying climate, abandoning net zero is abandoning Australia’s farmers.
Read my blog.👇🏽
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In a heating, drying climate, abandoning net zero is abandoning Australia’s farmers.
Read my blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/abandon...
Abandoning Net Zero Abandons Our Farmers
Riding my bike from Goondiwindi down to Narrabri via Moree, I had the Nandewar Range and Mount Kaputar sitting off to my left on the horizon. In front of me were paddocks of early summer crops on rich...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Cycling from Goondiwindi to Narrabri, I passed rich black-soil and fence-line signs from farmers warning about coal seam gas.
In a heating, drying climate, abandoning net zero is abandoning Australia’s farmers.
Read my blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/abandon...
In a heating, drying climate, abandoning net zero is abandoning Australia’s farmers.
Read my blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/abandon...
I was tempted to load my e-bike into this Suzuki Mighty Boy in Goondiwindi Qld and drive all the way back to Canberra. But I just took it for a short spin instead, and then hit the Newell Highway on my bike.
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I was tempted to load my e-bike into this Suzuki Mighty Boy in Goondiwindi Qld and drive all the way back to Canberra. But I just took it for a short spin instead, and then hit the Newell Highway on my bike.
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP
Honoured to guest speak at #AlterCOP30 Australia.
These people aren’t passive spectators. They’re organisers, volunteers, and community leaders living active hope in the climate crisis.
My reflection.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/hope-is...
#ClimateAction #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia
These people aren’t passive spectators. They’re organisers, volunteers, and community leaders living active hope in the climate crisis.
My reflection.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/hope-is...
#ClimateAction #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia
Hope Is a Verb: My Take Home from AlterCOP 30
Speaking at AlterCOP 30 Australia was a real privilege. Walking my bike into a space filled with people who had chosen to spend three days thinking, feeling and acting for the climate reminded me that...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Honoured to guest speak at #AlterCOP30 Australia.
These people aren’t passive spectators. They’re organisers, volunteers, and community leaders living active hope in the climate crisis.
My reflection.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/hope-is...
#ClimateAction #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia
These people aren’t passive spectators. They’re organisers, volunteers, and community leaders living active hope in the climate crisis.
My reflection.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/hope-is...
#ClimateAction #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia
“No rest for the wicked” - 1390 km on the #eBike4Australia ride… and still no rest for me!
Kim and Luke took me on a Brissy locals ride ahead of my AlterCOP 30 speech tomorrow.
Climate action doesn’t stop at the finish line - it starts in our communities.
#AlterCOPAustralia
Kim and Luke took me on a Brissy locals ride ahead of my AlterCOP 30 speech tomorrow.
Climate action doesn’t stop at the finish line - it starts in our communities.
#AlterCOPAustralia
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“No rest for the wicked” - 1390 km on the #eBike4Australia ride… and still no rest for me!
Kim and Luke took me on a Brissy locals ride ahead of my AlterCOP 30 speech tomorrow.
Climate action doesn’t stop at the finish line - it starts in our communities.
#AlterCOPAustralia
Kim and Luke took me on a Brissy locals ride ahead of my AlterCOP 30 speech tomorrow.
Climate action doesn’t stop at the finish line - it starts in our communities.
#AlterCOPAustralia
Made it to BrisVegas a day early!
See you at #AlterCOP Australia tomorrow - IRL or online.
Get your free tickets here.👇🏽
www.altercop.com/australia
See you at #AlterCOP Australia tomorrow - IRL or online.
Get your free tickets here.👇🏽
www.altercop.com/australia
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Made it to BrisVegas a day early!
See you at #AlterCOP Australia tomorrow - IRL or online.
Get your free tickets here.👇🏽
www.altercop.com/australia
See you at #AlterCOP Australia tomorrow - IRL or online.
Get your free tickets here.👇🏽
www.altercop.com/australia
Paddocks speak louder than policy.
While the Liberal Patry ditches Net Zero, farmers across the country know their future depends on it.
Read my latest.👇🏽
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#NetZero #ClimateAction #eBike4Australia
While the Liberal Patry ditches Net Zero, farmers across the country know their future depends on it.
Read my latest.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/if-parl...
#NetZero #ClimateAction #eBike4Australia
If Parliament Lived Like Farmers Do, Net Zero Would Be a No-Brainer
On the back roads between Lismore and Mullumbimby during my #eBike4Australia trip to Brisbane, I stopped beside a farm with a bright yellow sign that said everything Australia needs to hear right now:...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Paddocks speak louder than policy.
While the Liberal Patry ditches Net Zero, farmers across the country know their future depends on it.
Read my latest.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/if-parl...
#NetZero #ClimateAction #eBike4Australia
While the Liberal Patry ditches Net Zero, farmers across the country know their future depends on it.
Read my latest.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/if-parl...
#NetZero #ClimateAction #eBike4Australia
Too bad the Las Vegas Motel in Tweed Heads didn’t have any vacancies.
Anyway Surfers Paradise isn’t really my thing so I’m pushing onto Brisvegas tonight!
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
Anyway Surfers Paradise isn’t really my thing so I’m pushing onto Brisvegas tonight!
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Too bad the Las Vegas Motel in Tweed Heads didn’t have any vacancies.
Anyway Surfers Paradise isn’t really my thing so I’m pushing onto Brisvegas tonight!
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
Anyway Surfers Paradise isn’t really my thing so I’m pushing onto Brisvegas tonight!
#eBike4Australia #AlterCOP #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
Saw these gorgeous dairy cows in the Lismore fog this morning.
I love cheese. My cardiologist and the climate both tell me to eat less of it.
But climate action doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing - eat half as much cheese, cut your emissions from cheese in half. #eBike4Australia
I love cheese. My cardiologist and the climate both tell me to eat less of it.
But climate action doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing - eat half as much cheese, cut your emissions from cheese in half. #eBike4Australia
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Saw these gorgeous dairy cows in the Lismore fog this morning.
I love cheese. My cardiologist and the climate both tell me to eat less of it.
But climate action doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing - eat half as much cheese, cut your emissions from cheese in half. #eBike4Australia
I love cheese. My cardiologist and the climate both tell me to eat less of it.
But climate action doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing - eat half as much cheese, cut your emissions from cheese in half. #eBike4Australia
Got waylaid yesterday on Bundjalung Country by heavy rain.
But am back on the road and am aiming to hit BrisVegas tonight.
A day earlier than planned.
Can’t wait to speak and engage at #AlterCOP30 Australia on Monday.
#eBike4Australia #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
But am back on the road and am aiming to hit BrisVegas tonight.
A day earlier than planned.
Can’t wait to speak and engage at #AlterCOP30 Australia on Monday.
#eBike4Australia #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Got waylaid yesterday on Bundjalung Country by heavy rain.
But am back on the road and am aiming to hit BrisVegas tonight.
A day earlier than planned.
Can’t wait to speak and engage at #AlterCOP30 Australia on Monday.
#eBike4Australia #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
But am back on the road and am aiming to hit BrisVegas tonight.
A day earlier than planned.
Can’t wait to speak and engage at #AlterCOP30 Australia on Monday.
#eBike4Australia #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
Next time you pick up a punnet of blueberries, remember: the food chain ends behind the scenes, not just at checkout.
Blog out now.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/where-y...
#ClimateAction #eBike4Australia #AlterCop
Blog out now.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/where-y...
#ClimateAction #eBike4Australia #AlterCop
Where Your Blueberries Really Come From
Spoiler alert, it's not from the pretty pictures on the punnet. It's from places like this on Gumbaynggirr Country in the Clarence Valley: a huge old gumtree cut off at the base, one of many sacrifed ...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Next time you pick up a punnet of blueberries, remember: the food chain ends behind the scenes, not just at checkout.
Blog out now.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/where-y...
#ClimateAction #eBike4Australia #AlterCop
Blog out now.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/where-y...
#ClimateAction #eBike4Australia #AlterCop
Reposted by Gregory Andrews
As the Liberal Party trashes its Net Zero commitment, Elders like Uncle Gary Williams are watching climate change hit Country in real time - fires, floods, species out of sync.
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
Climate Change Through Aboriginal Eyes: What Uncle Gary Taught Me Today
This morning I had the privilege of meeting two remarkable people: Gumbaynggirr Elder Uncle Gary Williams and his wife Diedre Bear. We sat together in Nambucca Heads, a place that has carried stories,...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
As the Liberal Party trashes its Net Zero commitment, Elders like Uncle Gary Williams are watching climate change hit Country in real time - fires, floods, species out of sync.
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
At the very moment that the Liberal Party is abandoning net-zero, families across the world, like the Adikarams from Sri Lanka, are proving that global action is already happening.
Faster and with more courage than here at home.
My latest blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/a-sri-l...
Faster and with more courage than here at home.
My latest blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/a-sri-l...
Talking Climate with the Adikaram Familiy
The climate crisis has no borders - and nor should our responsibilityCycling through Coffs Harbour on my #eBike4Australia ride, I met the Adikaram family from Sri Lanka. Senaan, his mum and dad, and ...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
At the very moment that the Liberal Party is abandoning net-zero, families across the world, like the Adikarams from Sri Lanka, are proving that global action is already happening.
Faster and with more courage than here at home.
My latest blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/a-sri-l...
Faster and with more courage than here at home.
My latest blog.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/a-sri-l...
Revisited the Big Banana today.
Nostalgia = huge
Banana = less huge
Our obligation to protect Country = enormous 🍌
#eBike4Australia
Nostalgia = huge
Banana = less huge
Our obligation to protect Country = enormous 🍌
#eBike4Australia
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Revisited the Big Banana today.
Nostalgia = huge
Banana = less huge
Our obligation to protect Country = enormous 🍌
#eBike4Australia
Nostalgia = huge
Banana = less huge
Our obligation to protect Country = enormous 🍌
#eBike4Australia
As the Liberal Party trashes its Net Zero commitment, Elders like Uncle Gary Williams are watching climate change hit Country in real time - fires, floods, species out of sync.
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
Climate Change Through Aboriginal Eyes: What Uncle Gary Taught Me Today
This morning I had the privilege of meeting two remarkable people: Gumbaynggirr Elder Uncle Gary Williams and his wife Diedre Bear. We sat together in Nambucca Heads, a place that has carried stories,...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
As the Liberal Party trashes its Net Zero commitment, Elders like Uncle Gary Williams are watching climate change hit Country in real time - fires, floods, species out of sync.
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
Walking backwards on climate while Country is screaming is a moral failure.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/climate...
Giinagay Way cycle track from Macksville to Nambucca.
The old Pacific Highway has been renamed in Gumbaynggirr language.
It means “Hello”.
❤️💛🖤
The old Pacific Highway has been renamed in Gumbaynggirr language.
It means “Hello”.
❤️💛🖤
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Giinagay Way cycle track from Macksville to Nambucca.
The old Pacific Highway has been renamed in Gumbaynggirr language.
It means “Hello”.
❤️💛🖤
The old Pacific Highway has been renamed in Gumbaynggirr language.
It means “Hello”.
❤️💛🖤
Country, community & culture - three Cs of real climate leadership.
I saw it live with Janette, Luby, Dinah & Marc in Nambucca Valley.
Their stories here.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/rural-c...
#FirstNations #ClimateJustice #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia
I saw it live with Janette, Luby, Dinah & Marc in Nambucca Valley.
Their stories here.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/rural-c...
#FirstNations #ClimateJustice #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia
Rural Climate Leaders: Perspectives from the Nambucca Valley
Local heroes caring for Country - Janette Blainey, Luby Simson, Dinah Eadie and Marc PercivalLast night, after cycling 200km from Taree and watching the sun drop over the Nambucca River in Macksville,...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Country, community & culture - three Cs of real climate leadership.
I saw it live with Janette, Luby, Dinah & Marc in Nambucca Valley.
Their stories here.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/rural-c...
#FirstNations #ClimateJustice #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia
I saw it live with Janette, Luby, Dinah & Marc in Nambucca Valley.
Their stories here.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/rural-c...
#FirstNations #ClimateJustice #ActiveHope #eBike4Australia