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Australian-first treaty legislation passes in Victorian parliament Historic legislation has passed that will see the creation of an Indigenous council that will be consulted on laws and policies affecting Indigenous communities.

Treaty yeah 👏
Treaty now 👏
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The carbon flow of BECCS. When BECCS systems are employed, a negative carbon flow from the atmosphere into storage is created. From: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953422000678

We can find suitable land with sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow plants, wait years to harvest the biomass and burn it for energy, hope to capture the CO₂ with carbon capture and storage technology, and find a suitable spot to bury the CO₂ permanently.

OR we can use solar panels.

It is deeply distressing to see that Israel has resumed aerial bombing of Palestinians in Gaza despite a supposed ceasefire. The world must not turn its gaze away.

Also: anyone who wants to use this as a chance to wallow in doom and despair can fuck right off - every tonne of CO2 matters, every fraction of a degree we prevent saves lives and ecosystems. We need to fight like HELL to save what we can, grieve what we can’t, and lock up those responsible.

Cape York land returned to owners 255 years after Captain James Cook arrived A native title claim in the region where Captain James Cook made landfall after his ship crashed into the Great Barrier Reef in 1770 is among one of three to finally be settled by the Federal Court th...

Native title for about 915,000ha of Cape York has been returned to the traditional owners

Captain Cook landed in the region in 1770. Yrs of violence & displacement in the region followd.

"..we've always known this was our country,we just needed it recognised in law."
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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

25 years of analysis confirms what many frontline, indigenous and climate justice groups have been loudly saying for that whole 25 years: climate offsets are a scam meant to mask the obvious reality that we must stop burning fossil fuels. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Seriously. How much fucking wildlife extinction will be enough for neolibs?

#ExtinctionIsForever
#LaborIsFuckingUseless
#auspol

#BREAKING | The Global Sumud Flotilla's Alma ship's crew has just been apprehended by the Israeli forces.

Minister Watt uses purpose-designed regressive EPBC amendments that "removed the environment minister's ability to reconsider previous decisions if they had been ongoing for at least 5 years, & were approved w conditions that involve state-based regs" to end reconsideration of salmon farming request

PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social,

you may be desensitised to genocidal atrocities directed at children, but we are NOT

You need to SANCTION ISRAEL NOW

Mass slaughter in Gaza stands apart from other genocides, Chris Sidoti says: ‘People cannot escape’ Australian human rights expert who was on UN commission of inquiry labels Israel’s strategy a failure that ‘has not brought peace and has not destroyed Hamas’

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Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says Murray Watt says ‘it’s not the government’s intention to stop old growth logging’ as Greens and academics press for total halt

Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Glossy black cockatoos could be pushed towards extinction in Victoria if burns go ahead, experts warn Fire in black sheoak forest of East Gippsland would destroy the birds’ food supply, conservationist says

More info on #FFMV/ Victorian state govt's inexplicable, irresponsible plans to incinerate 13000 HECTARES of Glossy Black Cockatoo food supply. Nearly 64% of GBC's Victorian habitat was burned in 2019-20 bushfires: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia’s quietest cockatoo is running out of trees. We have betrayed its gentle curiosity | Joseph Earp As logging, fire and shrinking habitat push the glossy black cockatoo closer to the brink, we don’t just risk losing a species, but a world of wonder

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Critically Endangered Glossy Black Cockatoos have an extremely restricted diet. In East Gippsland they only feed on Black She-oaks. "Planned" burning by Forest Fire Management Vic is deliberately destroying their habitat. Read more:
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Treaty: This is how we get over it Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.

I was surprised by how moved I was when treaty legislation entered parliament this week. But when I step and think about it, my reaction was understandable. What a moment! www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/this-is-ho...

About TREATY for Victoria | The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria Treaty is our opportunity to make sure we – the Traditional Owners of these lands – always have the freedom and power to make the decisions that affect our communities, our culture, and our Country.

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"TREATY, IT'S HERE ...Australia’s first Treaty between First Peoples in Victoria and the Victorian Government"

Cutting through the spin – Ten logging 'myths' in the new ABARES report Australia’s native‑forest debate has long been characterised by falsehoods generated by industry and arms of industry such as parts of government.

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John Wamsley and David Lindenmayer — is there hope for Australian's biodiversity? - ABC listen Hear from two environmentalists who have ruffled a lot of feathers, who have been revered and reviled for their work. But the species and landscapes that we manage to save in 50- or 100-years' time wi...

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Why is rainfall declining in the Amazon? New research says deforestation is the leading driver For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications disentangles how much of this shift can be blamed on humanity’s warming of the planet ...

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'Disgraceful': Far-right marchers storm Indigenous group Confronting footage has emerged of protesters storming an Indigenous camp in Melbourne after Sunday's "March for Australia" rallies.

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, whose uncle Robbie Thorpe established the camp, wants the attack investigated as a hate crime.

“The aim of this attack was to cause fear and terror in the hearts and minds of our people.”

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The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
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State-owned Forestry Corporation charged with 29 offences related to failing to protect threatened species The state Environment Protection Authority laid charges after investigation into accusations the corporation breached laws while operating in Tallaganda state forest

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Abolish Native Forest Logging

Federal Court, Melbourne, Monday 1 Sept: support Warburton Environment final hearing of court case, fighting Forest Fire Management Victoria's appalling, senseless removal of thousands of old hollow-bearing habitat trees, naming them "hazardous trees". warburtonenvironment.org

The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal

A photo of starving Palestinians flocking to collect aid supplies dropped from airplanes in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Aug. 19, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza," and the DEK, "Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky."

“We needed food, yes. But not like this. Not at the cost of my father’s life. Not at the cost of our dignity.” interc.pt/4lLcTuT

An “unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity. .. If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

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Oh I see - jobs for everyone

Mexico’s bat man on saving the ‘most unfairly treated animals on Earth’ | CNN Bats are often linked to vampires or blamed for disease outbreaks. Here’s why they don’t deserve such a bad reputation.

Bats have a bad reputation. Myths, folk tales and negative media coverage mean people often link them to vampires or blame them for disease outbreaks. But bat populations around the world are in decline, and without them, ecosystems lose key benefits like pest control, pollination and seed dispersal