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Micronesia's worst fears realised as WWII shipwrecks leak The Federated States of Micronesia's biggest tourism asset has become one of its largest threats, with as much as 22 million litres of oil from World War II shipwrecks slowly leaking into the ocean.

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Australia formally recognises state of Palestine The historic decision foreshadowed last month has now become a reality, as Australia moves with Canada and the United Kingdom to join the growing list of countries to recognise Palestinian sovereignty...

Finallllly!

#StopKillingChildren
#StopKillingEverybody
#StopKillingEverything
#StoptheGenocide

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“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.”

Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

Anger at North West Shelf approval spreads through Pacific A former president of Kiribati has criticised the Australian government over its approval of a major gas project off Western Australia.

“To say that I care about your security & actually do the very thing that’s actually threatening our security, it does not make sense. We cannot be that stupid,” – Anote Tong, fmr president of Kiribati.

Pacific leaders see through the rhetoric & are furious about Australia's fossil fuel expansion.

"It tells you a lot about who wields power in Australia that Woodside is being allowed to haggle in secret over the conditions of the North West Shelf expansion," writes @stephenlongaus.bsky.social.

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/yes-min... #auspol

Rally to save Meanjin happening now at 715 Swanston st! (Pics via @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social )

@savemeanjin.bsky.social

He's been called Australia's Elon Musk. This is his 'trillion-dollar' plan He has the chic of a Silicon Valley tech bro and a clean energy pitch for investors, but will Gerard Barron's deep-sea mining dream do more harm than good?

🌊🦑🐋 #abcnews
Stop giving this menace media space & time! The better stories are about the amazing organisations, communities & individuals working to bring the ecological and cultural risks of deep seabed mining into the light.
#DeepSeabedMining
#OceanJustice

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#deepcurrentscollective
#oceanjustice
#multibeing
#deepseabedmining
#ocean

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

The concept of "Degenerate art" returns.

USA is speedrunning fascism

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Does Australia supply weapons to Israel? The government has consistently denied the claim and criticised “misinformation” surrounding exports, arguing it has “raised tensions in this country”.

So what do we know about Australia’s role in the F-35 jet's supply chain, and what constitutes a weapon?

The malevolent ones are the large fossil fuel companies who won’t end their violent tyranny of environmental abuses…not the climate

Plastic Pollution Talks Collapse as Oil States Oppose Tough Treaty

Read the latest on the Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 from Hiroko Tabuchi at the NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/c...
“The talks’ collapse “proved that there’s no way we can proceed with consensus,” said Bjorn Beeler, executive director at IPEN”
“The result was the chaos you saw.”

This may actually be the worst phrase in existence.

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Death of young cassowary that ingested fish hook prompts fresh warnings The juvenile cassowary was spotted with a fishing line hanging from its mouth in Far North Queensland and later died.

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The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent.

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YouTube video by Sergio Cánovas "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" for 52 String Instruments - Krzysztof Penderecki

80 years. Never again. Abolish nuclear weapons.

Norway taxes their fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free university education.

In Australia, we give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.

📺 Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol

ABC 3pm news bulletin had good coverage of #MarchForHumanity in Sydney and Melbourne.
Mentions “tens of thousands” participating.

#marchforhumanity

Sydney heaving with people joining the March today , no one cares about the rain in fact people cheering 📣 #palestine

Omg, the woman on the PA system in Wynyard, who's been giving directions since we got here, just added "Free Palestine, free Palestine" at the end of one of her announcements. Cheers erupted.
#MarchForHumanity

#marchforhumanity #sydney #2pm

Reminder: If you hear anyone claiming the #MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza March across the Sydney Harbour Bridge today in support of Palestine is somehow anti-Semitic,the Jewish Council of Australia supports it. 👇 And here's their full media release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/08/medi...

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.

#MarchForHumanity

(🎥 Ema Franklin)

A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.

Media Release: Jewish Council backs march across Sydney Harbour Bridge

We stand with – and join – those marching across the bridge and call for immediate action to stop the Gaza genocide and for a future where everyone is free, from the river to the sea.

As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel

"War profiteering is a phenomenon as ancient as war itself, but [a new report] shows that the military-industrial-technological complex is reaping uniquely horrible payoffs in Palestine," writes editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Incredible turnout for “Our Collective Seabed" panel & exhibition at the National Gallery of Jamaica
A side event at #ISBA30 organized by intl. group, the Deep Currents Collective.
Photo credit: Earth Negotiation Bulletin
#OceanJustice #DeepSeabedMining
#SeabedCulture #UNCLOS #Jamaica #Extractivism

Dr Giulia Champion, postdoc researcher, Uni of Southampton and member of the #DeepCurrentsCollective here discussing the ISA’s mandates of marine enviro protection & deep seabed mining.
#ISA #seabed #OceanLaw #deepseamining #deepocean #OceanJustice #lawofthesea #ocean #oceangovernance #extractivism

Scientists find millions of tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean Scientists have measured the amount of nanoplastics in the open ocean for the first time and found they make up the vast majority of marine plastic pollution. Plastic debris in the ocean can be of…

Scientists have measured the amount of nanoplastics in the open ocean for the first time.

The new study estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean holds approximately 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics, around nine times the amount of larger plastic debris in all of the world’s oceans.

Dr Jonathan Galka of Deep Currents Collective is a historian and ethnographer of modern sciences & environments and a Postdoctoral Fellow, Nat. Uni. of Singapore

#ISA30 #lawofthesea #ocean #oceangovernance #extractivism #OceanJustice #Multibeing
#DeepCurrentsCollective#DeepSeabedMining