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This is just Queensland … now take a look at this kind of infiltration into Western Australia.
Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change
Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
7 Dec nation-wide #MarchForPalestine in Naarm/Melbourne

We denounce the fake ceasefire in which Israel's attacks, hostilities & siege on Palestinians continues

PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social, DM Richard Marles, end Australia's military & political support NOW
Large kuffiyeh-wearing, Palestinian flag-bearing, anti-genocide crowd processing down Swanston St Placard at the left-most edge says IF WE WERE IN GAZA OUR HOSPITALS WOULD BE RUBBLE Large crowd of anti-genocide marchers processing down Swanston St framed by spring-lafed trees on either side & a glorious blue sky overhead Large anti-genocide crowd massed right across Flinders Street in front of ACMI Cropped shot of a sign in the large crowd massed on Flinders St in front of ACMI The sign is flanked by Palestinian flags and reads BOYCOTT DIVEST AND SANCTION No Trade With Apartheid Israel
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
All those thinking the private sector would find a way to solve climate change, when of course all it was ever going to do was find ways to produce even more emissions and f*ck the environment royally.

Because well... that's all it ever has done.
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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ingridm.bsky.social
police took out a five year intervention order after Lynne used a sledgehammer to break into Lisa’s house. After she was found dead, police accepted Lynn’s claim that his death threats were “not serious” and decided they found no “suspicious circumstances”.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Suppression order lifted on High Country killer's past police run-ins
Victoria's Supreme Court lifts a suppression order that prohibited reporting on convicted murderer Greg Lynn's past interactions with police and the death of his first wife.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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adammorton.bsky.social
This is a significant story, imo - building community action over an issue central to public debate and all of our futures. Some news media seem to have missed it. Wonder why.

Recommend this by @jordynbeazley.bsky.social
Who are the Australians trying to shut down the world’s biggest coal port?
Climate activists from the Rising Tide organisation have stopped coal ships from reaching Newcastle port – for a day or two. What’s their real objective?
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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adammorton.bsky.social
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle

NSW police arrest 141 as campaigners demand govt cancel planned fossil fuel projects + tax existing operations at 78%

By @jordynbeazley.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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volts.wtf
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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greenpeace.org
This week, the UK became the world's largest economy to ban new oil and gas exploration.

Another milestone in the global phaseout of fossil fuels.

Who's next?

www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain-ends-new-fossil-fuel-exploration via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UK
Commenting on the government’s North Sea Future Plan, in which it has confirmed that no more licences for new oil and gas will be issued, Greenpeace UK’s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid, said:  “B...
www.greenpeace.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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xhali.bsky.social
As the world's carbon sinks are degraded, #auspol I wonder what happened to Tony Abbott's tree planting scheme? Not enough, not in the right places, not the right species, not enough to offset tree-clearing? Ah! Done on the cheap! So, all of the above plus more
theconversation.com/program-to-p...
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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kazcooke.bsky.social
Help! Sign & share the petition to save the State Library of Victoria from rolling crises, gallery closures, harassment/jettisoning of staff & new cuts to destroy services for children & adults. c.org/Hj9G9WSg2f. (Or change.org, search Save The State Library of Victoria.) #StateLibrary #librarians
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save the State Library of Victoria!
c.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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greenpeace.org
🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace Luxembourg activists have delivered a message to Amazon on their European headquarters.⁣
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Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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pik-potsdam.bsky.social
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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us.theconversation.com
Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands buff.ly/k9fQTGH
Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands
A majority of service members understand the distinction between legal and illegal orders.
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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adammorton.bsky.social
What happened at the end of COP30:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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greenpeace.org
As #COP30 winds down amid difficulties over a transition away from fossil fuels and climate finance, the G20 summit in Johannesburg must urgently ramp up plans to cut emissions and make progress on global tax reform act.gp/4peUauh

#FairShare #TaxTheSuperRich
G20 must step up action to cut emissions and lead on wealth tax, climate justice – Greenpeace - Greenpeace International
Greenpeace has called on the G20 to ramp up their plans to cut emissions and make progress on global tax reform by taxing the super-rich to unlock public finance for climate mitigation, adaptation and...
act.gp
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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amyremeikis.bsky.social
Trading places

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Power for its own sake, and no courage – Labor loses its way
Having tasted long-term power, this Labor Party seems guided only by the possession of power as an end to itself.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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uk.theconversation.com
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
tcnv.link
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Here's an excerpt:
The COP30 global climate summit in Brazil may have been the last opportunity for the nations of the world to reach an agreement that limits planetary warming below catastrophic (>1.5C/3F) levels. By that criterion alone, the now-completed COP30 conference was an abject failure, despite whatever other progress might be claimed. In my recent book “Science Under Siege” with public health scientist Peter Hotez, we discuss the five main forces that threaten the planet. One of them is billionaire plutocrats like Bill Gates, who sidetracked the conversation going into COP30 by dismissing the urgency of climate mitigation. But an even greater threat is bad actor petrostates like Russia, Saudi Arabia, and now—under current Republican rule—the United States. They have banded together to weaponize the “consensus” rule machinery of the UNFCCC, hijacking the negotiations and blocking any meaningful commitment or timeline for phasing out fossil fuels. Both the patience of most serious climate advocates—and the clock—are quickly now running out. As if it wasn’t clear already, fundamental changes must now be made in the UNFCCC rules. A small number of rogue nations cannot be allowed to block progress for the rest of the world. One suggestion has been a rule change requiring a three-fourths (75%) rather than a “consensus” of all countries for reaching an agreement. The cruel irony here, however, is that such a rule change would also require “consensus” among participating nations.
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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greenpeace.org
1/ #COP30 has ended meekly in Belém. Governments failed to turn early momentum into real action on forests, finance or fossil fuels.
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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pennytangey.bsky.social
Conservation Council SA's new campaign is Dump Santos. They are calling for the SA govt to end Santos's sponsorship of the Tour Down Under.

The Santos branded race will ride past areas affected by the algal bloom. Makes me mad.

Join and take action to Dump Santos

dump-santos.conservationsa.org.au
Dump Santos from Tour Down Under
Tell Premier Malinauskas to end Santos' sponsorship of SA's iconic cycling race.
dump-santos.conservationsa.org.au
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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abhoth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're headed for net zero coral.

#Environment
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says she is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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boontonkat.bsky.social
Jen was actually the reporter present & who was snapped at with what is probably Tя☭mp's most damaging recent quote 🙄
Jen is on Bluesky too 🤙🏼

Catherine just started in the position 8 months ago

They both deserve our support! 🤙🏼
This is Jennifer Jacobs, the reporter Trump barked "quiet, quiet, piggy" at for asking about the Epstein files. She's on Bluesky 🤙🏼
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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wtafc.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Guidance distributed to MPs seeks to pre-empt questions about plan’s compatibility with Paris agreement, indicating opposition is aware of potential breach.”
Leaked Coalition talking points direct MPs to argue dumping net zero does not conflict with Paris agreement
Exclusive: Guidance distributed to MPs seeks to pre-empt questions about plan’s compatibility with Paris agreement, indicating opposition is aware of potential breach
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM